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In Pipeline

27.04.2017 | In Pipeline

A global project by FES and partners from the Americas, Africa, Europe and Asia is at work to shape a reformed global agenda on democratic control and…


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29.03.2017 | In Pipeline

Often in the lowest paid positions, an estimated 20–40 per cent of the construction workers that are building Phnom Penh are female.


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27.02.2017 | In Pipeline, Popular Posts

In Central America, FES works to revert a vicious cycle where weak social protection and restrictive immigration policies make criminal street gangs…


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29.01.2017 | In Pipeline

An interview with the director of the Thai Civic Education Center in Thailand on the role of civic education for a democratic society


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15.11.2016 | In Pipeline

In the past years, the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung reviewed its long-standing work on gender equality worldwide and now it is spearheading a regional…


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19.10.2016 | In Pipeline

Social integration was at the center of a discussion on migration by advocates of social justice at the “Europe Calling” debate series.


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Trending

26.10.2018 | Trending

Tunisia's new Startup Act plans to boost the creation of enterprises in the digital economy.


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20.10.2018 | Trending

The struggle for a post-wage society is an accelerationist banner that the Latin American left should embrace.


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19.10.2018 | Trending

About 70 years ago Ernst Reuter gave what was probably his most famous speech before the Reichstag in Berlin. Berlin's first mayor, Reuter was already…


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27.09.2018 | Trending

The G20 is a small club of developed and emerging States setting the global economic agenda—how useful can it be for activists in the Global South?


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25.09.2018 | Trending, Popular Posts

In a reshaped multilateral order, democracy on the national and global levels are mutually reinforcing and a reformed, well-resourced and more…


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25.09.2018 | Trending, Popular Posts

The global extractives industry is under increasing pressure to rein in its widespread violations of labour, environmental and human rights.


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30.07.2018 | Trending

A proposed law to better protect whistle-blowers is under discussion in the European Union. Can it rebuild the hopes for decentralization and more…


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28.07.2018 | Trending

The Library of Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung makes available information generated by over 40 years of bibliographical expertise and diligence both online…


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19.07.2018 | Trending

In Myanmar, one innovation group is working to help digital consumers and startups make the most of the rapid digitalization sweeping the country, and…


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18.07.2018 | Trending, Popular Posts

The digital edition of Vorwärts now has company. With the additional titles Freiheit, Der Sozialdemokrat and Neue Vorwärts, the Library of…


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People

29.05.2018 | People

Austerity measures in Tunisia undermine the possibility of rebuilding trust in the state and with it also lasting solutions to fight inequality and regional disparities in the country.


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29.05.2018 | People

Widening income, wealth and regional disparities have exposed the country to extremism and social instability, explains in an interview economist Hafiz A. Pasha, author of a new publication supported by FES.


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28.04.2018 | People

Shalini Sinha of WIEGO, a global network focused on securing livelihoods for the working poor, talks about the need to think outside the box when it comes to supporting women in informal employment.


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24.04.2018 | People

Workers’ education can support trade union affiliates to rely on their capacity for strategic thinking and action, asserting union power for a strong and vibrant labour movement.


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15.04.2018 | People

Each year, the Global Labour University (GLU) invites applicants to its graduate programmes on policies for social justice. An alumnus speaks of her good fortune in attending one.


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28.03.2018 | People

Artivist Emilia de Sousa uses art to confront the image of women in a capitalist and patriarchal society


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28.03.2018 | People

Implications of gender-based affirmative action in politics for young women leaders in Uganda was the subject of a workshop held in Kampala, an occasion for an interview on the topic with Maria Alesi, one of the organizers.


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20.03.2018 | People

With 4 million photographs of which 300,000 digital files, the Archives of Social Democracy in Bonn holds the largest photo depository on the workers' and social movements in Europe.


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27.02.2018 | People

The scope and ambition of connectivity projects under the general umbrella of the Belt and Road Initiative will alter the economic map of Eurasia profoundly but their potential goes beyond this.


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26.02.2018 | People

Central Asian states must proactively shape international coalitions to make Belt and Road projects bearers of good global governance norms and standards.


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Reading Picks

16.03.2017 | Reading Picks

For a socially and gender just society, a universal social protection system cannot overlook the need for quality and affordable social services


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23.02.2017 | Reading Picks

New report by SIPRI and FES sheds light on the wider security dynamics of the Silk Road Economic Belt and EU–China cooperation prospects


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27.01.2017 | Reading Picks

Neo-liberalization, globalization, digitalization and post-modern identity formation ― can social democracy deal with these challenges or has it…


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19.01.2017 | Reading Picks

On the Hungarian law governing referendums and how they have been abused by the government of Victor Orbán to dismantle direct democracy in Hungary


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21.12.2016 | Reading Picks, Popular Posts

Stories, thoughts and activities in the life of 49 thinkers of social democracy tell the history of social democracy, now also eternalized in typo…


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27.11.2016 | Reading Picks

Reclaiming inequality as the core aspect of feminism, a political feminist agenda can change reactive politics


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20.11.2016 | Reading Picks

The diversity in feminist positions, especially on grounds of how patriarchy has arisen and how it should be challenged and defeated requires to move…


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23.10.2016 | Reading Picks, Popular Posts

The "success stories" of integration policy tell of effective self-organizing. A brief survey of three central areas of integration – housing, work,…


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19.10.2016 | Reading Picks, Popular Posts

Using ethnographic examples, anthropologist Ruben Andersson in this study goes against the grain of conventional approaches to migration as "crisis"…


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02.10.2016 | Reading Picks, Popular Posts

Professor Oltmer introduces historical and other complexities of migration to answer why Germany has so often been the destination of flight in the…


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