Spotlight Migration and COVID-19

Health and safety in the workplace is not a matter of course for self-employed waste pickers in Vietnam. Yet these workers - the majority of whom are women - play an important role in waste disposal and waste separation.
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Migrant domestic workers‘ struggles show the urgent need for further organising to reshape labour justice and challenge power dynamics, particularly in Lebanon.
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China has become an integral part of the global security order. A new FES policy brief by the FES sheds light on what this means for multilateral arms control and where there could be potential for dialogue between Germany and China.
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"Now it is important to ensure that EU law is always respected at our external borders and that the CEAS reform is implemented quickly and comprehensively", says Birgit Sippel, Member of the European Parliament and spokesperson of the S&D Group in...
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Daniel Bertossa appeals to the WTO Ministerial Conference to prioritise the development agenda and the public interest.
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The FES Geneva reports on the MC13 in three issues of its "Mont Blanc Trade News". At the beginning of the conference, with representatives from Zambia, Pakistan and Australia.
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Senegal’s President Macky Sall unexpectedly postponed the presidential elections, already causing enormous political, social and economic consequences, says Claudia Ehing (Head of the FES office in Senegal) in the current IPS article.
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Violence is escalating in eastern Congo. With the UN peacekeepers due to pull out, who will fill the power vacuum, asks Manuel Wollschläger (Head of the FES office in DR Congo) in the current IPS article.
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Experts from Latin America and SIPRI analyze the nexus between security, justice and the climate crisis and present policy recommendations.
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Interview with Frank Wolff, who together with Volker M. Heins wrote the book "Behind Walls" (Hinter Mauern) in which they discuss the effects of isolationist policy and violent border regimes on our societies and democracy.
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