To mitigate climate change, Asia needs to undergo a transition towards a low-carbon economy, suggests the climate team of FES in Asia, since May with…

China’s social credit system is a highly debated topic for how it treads the fine line between technological advancement and fragile social…

The reunification of East and West Germany has long since brought about challenges in deciding which cultural and structural norms were to be…

The battle on the sharp distinction between male and female in the German language has been a long and often losing one for progressives, but this…

Feminism and those who carry its torch have long since impacted and transformed many sectors and structures in society. In Ecuador, a week-long event…

Success in achieving Vision 2030, the SDGs, and living up to the commitments of the Paris Agreement will require a transition to a more equal,…

In a rush to ‘solve’ the issues impacting our climate, we often overlook the realities for local and indigenous people. A reality which, simply put…

Urbanists from Europe and Asia are facing some of the same challenges, but from often quite different angles. Experts from nine Asian countries…

A new study highlights aspects that affect socially just post-war reconstruction at the intersection with housing, land and property rights violations…

A campaign for solidarity by women protestors in support of all the women who survived the crackdown on their civil disobedience or were victims of…

Over half of Mozambicans are 35 or younger, yet only a fraction vote. A youth platform is encouraging them to head to the ballot box, but also to get involved in other ways.

More than 300 groups have joined a global alliance that advocates to change social and economic systems for a more just, equal and sustainable world.

Illicit financial flows are depriving African countries of wealth from their natural resources. With governments slow to act, civil society must take urgent action.

As we fight through conversations about pipelines and indigenous rights…we are actually putting the stones down for the new path the country will have to walk.

The youth of Africa envisions a future where the EU dismantles the power dynamics that have hindered Africa and its development.

"We can not address the migration crisis without analysing the roots [of it], and the overall [root] of it is political instability, which goes with poverty."

Africa expects transparency in climate finance and better access to know-how to better face climate change.

Based on a case study by authors Arbind Singh and Sachin Kumar, this story narrates the fight by street vendors in India successfully organizing for…

How digitalisation can be steeped in the values of a humane society

“Despite being an investors’ darling, India’s employment generation track record has been disappointing”

"The transformation that the Paris Agreement calls for so urgently will only secure broad-based public support if there is a narrowing of…

International brands and competition on foreign direct investment are pushing labour standards to the bottom, a new study by FES Vietnam shows

The ever-growing automotive sector of emerging countries nurtures hopes and concerns for the future, reports a new study by FES