Spotlight Migration and COVID-19

"Ensure that our consumption respects human rights"

24.04.2020 News

The EU wants to ensure that importers of conflict minerals uphold human rights. Bernd Lange MEP on the new regulation in the IPS journal.
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A new African socio-economic paradigm to confront the pandemic and its impacts

24.04.2020 Blog

Reckya Madougou from Benin calls for a new socio-economic paradigm for Africa.
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Fake news and coronavirus, two global pandemics to counter!

23.04.2020 Blog

Worse than the new coronavirus itself, fake news is wreaking havoc, says the Ivorian journalist Israël Guébo.
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Under pressure: Health care workers fighting at the frontlines in Nepal

22.04.2020 Blog, Gender Weltweit

Trade unions demand for physical, psychological and economic protection. A news article by Samira Paudel and Jonathan Menge.
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Arbeiterinnen sitzen an Nähmaschinen in einer Kleidungsfabrik. Eine Frau blickt direkt in die Kamera.

Bangladesh’s garment sector collapse devastates millions

22.04.2020 Global Economy and Corporate Responsibility

Highly dependent on demand from Europe and the United States, the economic impact of the Coronavirus will hit factory workers and especially women.
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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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Zwei Menschen sitzen in einem dunklen Flur

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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