Spotlight Migration and COVID-19

The Corona Pace

22.04.2020 Blog

Florent Couao-Zotti from Benin describes in literary form the side effects of coronavirus in his home country.
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The case for a global universal basic income

21.04.2020 Blog

Ruth Castel-Branco from the University of the Witwatersrand about informal economy, lack of social protection and a possible way out by a global strategy of redistribution.
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The corona crisis doesn't justify suspending human rights

20.04.2020 News, Displacement, Migration, Integration, Refugee Policy

The coronavirus could spread to overcrowded, unsanitary refugee camps — and the EU can no longer look away.
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Afghanistan – Peace in the Time of COVID-19

20.04.2020 News, Peace and Security

The COVID-19 pandemic has elevated the urgency for peace in Afghanistan to unprecedented levels, says Magdalena Kirchner on fes-asia.org
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Comment la pandémie affecte le secteur informel au Kenya

20.04.2020 Blog

Economiste et partenaire de la FES, Jacob Omolo, propose des options politiques pour le secteur informel du Kenya pendant et après COVID-19.
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How the Pandemic is affecting the informal sector in Kenya

20.04.2020 Blog

The economist and FES-Partner Jacob Omolo, is proposing policy options for Kenya’s informal sector under and after COVID-19.
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COVID-19: Une lettre ouverte des intellectuels africains aux dirigeants africains

17.04.2020 Blog

100 universitaires et écrivains de premier plan appellent les dirigeants à gouverner avec compassion et à voir la crise comme une chance pour un changement radical de direction.
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COVID-19: An open letter from African intellectuals to Africa’s leaders

17.04.2020 Blog

100 leading academics and writers call on leaders to govern with compassion and see the crisis as a chance for a radical change of direction.
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Making the future of trade unions: Organizing young transport workers in the platform economy in Asia

16.04.2020 Gewerkschaften und gute Arbeit, International Trade Union Policy

FES Nepal talked to Artika Ashdhir of International Transport Workers' Federation, about how young workers get organized in new-age platform economy.
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