This year's "16 days against violence against women" campaign ended on December 10, Human Rights Day. Mission 21 took part with a selfie campaign and shared posts from partners in the Global South. A message from the Federal Parliament shows that the joint commitment to gender equality is worthwhile: a motion for additional...

Great honor for former Mission 21 employee, Pastor Hans Lutz. He received an honorary doctorate at the Dies Academicus 2023 of the University of Basel. Hans Lutz has worked for the Basel Mission for over 50 years and then for Mission 21 in Hong Kong. As part of this work, he will now...

Surprisingly, the Federal Council does not want to fund a new national prevention campaign against violence after all - even though Parliament has instructed it to do so. More than 170 Swiss organizations that campaign against violence have therefore written an open letter to the Federal Council. Mission 21 also signs this letter, which calls on the Federal Council to reverse this decision.

More gender justice worldwide. Mission 21 also wants to come closer to this goal thanks to a new expert committee. The "Advisory Board Gender Justice" has started its work and discussed Mission 21's work in depth at its online meeting on August 29. The new advisory board is international in scope and also counts on the...

What role do men play on the path to gender justice? Key people from Mission 21's international network addressed this question in the Positive Masculinities workshop. Action plans emerged to involve men more actively in gender justice work. "The issue affects every one of our projects and all of our partner organizations," said...

In South Kalimantan, the long-standing project work of our partner organizations resulted in a success story in 2019: The interreligious cooperative "Borneo Braid" now supports producers in generating their own income with their handicraft. In multi-ethnic and multi-religious Indonesia, inter-religious peace is an ongoing issue. Mission 21's project area in the south of the island of Borneo...

The church can benefit from exchange between generations. At the event "The World on the Sofa," four women from the Mission 21 network reported on their experiences as young women in the church and the challenges they encounter. Salome Hengartner sees herself as part of a world church. In...

There is a change in the work for gender justice at Mission 21. The accompanying and supporting expert commission Women and Gender will be replaced by an "Advisory Board". The members of the expert commission, who supported Mission 21 in gender justice for many years, were therefore recently thanked with great gratitude for their important...

What role do men play on the path to greater gender equality? In 2023, several new projects focus on (stereotypical) images of masculinity and involve men more actively than before in gender work. Mission 21 and its partners have been campaigning for decades against violence against women and are committed to...