Gisela Burckhardt

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Gisela Burckhardt (* 1951 in Aachen ) is a German non-fiction author, doctorate pedagogue and political activist who advocates women's rights and fair working conditions in the textile industry, especially in Southeast Asia. She is the founder and chairwoman of the FEMNET association, which was founded in 2010who advocates “feminist perspectives on politics, economy and society”. Burckhardt leads the Clean Clothes Campaign there, which aims to improve working conditions in the global clothing and sporting goods industry. For this purpose, end consumers are informed, negotiations are carried out with companies (such as discounters in Germany), workers' organizations are supported and public campaigns are carried out. Burckhardt has been working as a development policy consultant and trainer since the 1980s. In Nicaragua she worked from 1981 to 1984 for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), in Pakistan (1985–86) on behalf of the German Society for Technical Cooperation(GTZ) and in Ethiopia (1999–2001) for the Institute for International Cooperation of the German Adult Education Association (IIZ / DVV). Burckhardt has published several non-fiction books as an editor. She has a son and a daughter and lives with her husband in Bonn.

Awards

In spring 2016, the Heinrich Böll Foundation awarded Burckhardt the Anne Klein Women's Prize .

Publications (selection)

  • (Ed) The whitewash of discounters - lawsuit against Lidl's misleading advertising Springer-Verlag, 2010. ISBN 978-3-658-02842-8 .
  • (Ed) Corporate Social Responsibility - Myths and Measures , 2nd edition, Verlag Springer Gabler, 2013, ISBN 978-3-658-02842-8 .
  • Cheap clothes - and their price. In: Sheets for German and International Politics 1/2013 (2013)
  • Social indicators in sustainability reports - voluntary, reliable, good? In: WISO discourse, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (2012)
  • Dead chic. Noble labels, cheap fashion - produced inhumanely. Heyne Verlag Munich, 2014. ISBN 978-3-453-60322-6 .
  • From Primark to Hugo Boss: business without scruples. in “Sheets for German and International Politics” 1/2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FEMNET homepage , accessed on February 17, 2016
  2. ↑ Brief CV on the Heinrich Böll Foundation's homepage , accessed on February 17, 2016
  3. ↑ Rights for people, rules for companies Article on the Heinrich Böll Foundation's homepage from December 8, 2015, accessed on February 17, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Burckhardt, Gisela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen