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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

28.06.2018 | Trending, Popular Posts

The effective excess of narratives in male football ruled out the possibility of having a female story altogether—and even excluded it.


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26.06.2018 | Trending, Popular Posts

The multi-election year of 2017 highlighted the new challenges that the resurgent Right poses the EU. In 2018, too, there has been little to encourage…


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30.05.2018 | Popular Posts, Trending

Civil society organizations and movements are coming together for a Civil BRICS meeting in June to establish their positions for the 2018 summit…


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28.05.2018 | Trending, Popular Posts

A list of essentials for a democratic and just future for the European Union.


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24.05.2018 | Trending

Brothers in spirit – Russia and the European right wing


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24.05.2018 | Trending

A close look at the new permanent exhibition at Museum Karl-Marx-Haus in Trier.


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15.05.2018 | Popular Posts, Trending

Among the gems housed by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Library are items and collections from the museum Karl-Marx-Haus, including a polemical satire…


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10.05.2018 | Trending

Current labour standards fail to protect women's rights at work. Reform of international labour agreements is essential to reach the Sustainable…


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28.04.2018 | Trending

As technology develops, trade unions must combat the precariousness of work. Christina Colclough of UNI Global Union summarizes three key demands.


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27.04.2018 | Popular Posts, Trending

A new guide offers tips to help negotiators win fair wages for workers. Negotiators can improve their bargaining power for wage demands by making…


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People

27.11.2017 | People, Popular Posts

Powerful and intimate testimony on the urgent action needed to overcome the conditions holding African populations in glaring poverty, driving those who survive to exodus and exile.


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27.11.2017 | People

The absence of a real migration policy based on African realities should dispel any remaining illusion about the gulf separating the European and African understandings of the question, writes civil society activist from Côte…


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26.11.2017 | People
Tina Hennecken Andrade by FES

Simple messages like "you shouldn’t beat your wife" or "you should pay your nanny a decent salary" are just not enough.


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20.11.2017 | Popular Posts, People
Street corner cafe in Melville, Johannesburg, a trendy artistic suburb situated near the University, west of Johannesburg city centre. Photo by iStockphoto.org / THEGIFT777

South Africa’s cities are still largely divided along the fault lines of class and race, a quarter century after the official end of apartheid. FES spoke to Khanya Bonani, an alumnus of the Fort Hare Autumn School Programme,…


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30.10.2017 | People, Popular Posts

Former FES Mexico staff, doctoral student and lecturer Zirahuén Villamar analyses the Impact of the German elections for Latin America and Germany’s ‘other’ transatlantic relation.


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29.10.2017 | People, Popular Posts

A workshop in La Paz on community feminism, movement for political action that questions the definitions and chronology posed by feminist currents arising in the past in Europe and the United States.


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27.10.2017 | People

Buenos Aries (Argentina) – Founded during the military dictatorship in Argentina, Nueva Sociedad can boast of decades long history and a vigorous team keeping progressive thought on the upbeat in the region.


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29.09.2017 | People

Rising rents, long commutes, more pollution are among the negative consequences of growing cities in Germany that have affected especially people with low and medium income.


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31.07.2017 | Popular Posts, People

Indebted countries that receive a debt relief continue to return to square one, a poignant lesson in the history of debt that should encourage progressive economic solutions to indebtedness presented in this contribution by…


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24.07.2017 | People, Popular Posts

Quito (Ecuador) – In the Hanseatic city shaken by turmoil during the recent G-20 meeting, the issue of foreign debt virtually disappeared from the official agenda


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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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