Articles on International Community and Civil Society

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Mythbusting immigration detention

01.10.2025 Displacement, Migration, Integration, Migration policy
This year's Human Rights Award goes to International Detention Coalition. It’s time to break down common myths around immigration detention and alternatives.
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Zingiswa Losi von COSATU beim  L20/Treffen der Arbeitsgruppe der Beschäftigten der G20

Labour in the G20 – welcomed but offered little

04.09.2025 Gewerkschaften und gute Arbeit, International Trade Union Policy
The South African G20 presidency is setting the right agenda—but it lacks the resources to meet the demands of the Labor 20 summit.
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Panellists and participants in the audience at the Bharat Summit of the Progressive Alliance in Hyderabad.

The world’s biggest gathering of progressive forces

07.05.2025
The Progressive Alliance international conference saw over 100 progressive parties and movements come together in a show of unity – committed to building a more just world order and a society founded on solidarity.
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Cover der FES Konferenz-Zeitung: "Mont Blanc Trade News". Im Hintergrund die Sillhouette des Montblanc-Massivs

13th WTO Ministerial Conference: Set the Priorities right

29.02.2024
Daniel Bertossa appeals to the WTO Ministerial Conference to prioritise the development agenda and the public interest.
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Cover der FES Konferenz-Zeitung: "Mont Blanc Trade News"

Expectations for the 13th WTO Ministerial Conference in Abu Dhabi

27.02.2024
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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China’s international development cooperation. History, Development Finance Apparatus, and Case Studies from Africa

14.12.2023
Beijing is one of the world's largest donors of development aid and uses development financing as a foreign policy instrument. A new analysis of FES Asia shows how this came about.
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Plakat auf einer Klimademo mit der Aufschrift: «There is no Planet B»

Why Climate Change and Human Rights are Connected

17.11.2023 Climate Change, Energy and Environment, International Community and Civil Society
What are the obligations of states to protect the human rights of those affected by climate change?
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Veranstaltungsgrafik mit einem Portrait von der Menschenrechtsaktivistin Shaharzad Akbar. Text: FES-Menschenrechtspreis 2023. Shaharzad Akbar

FES Human Rights Award 2023

to Shaharzad Akbar, human rights activist and former Chairperson of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC). Please register for the award ceremony here.
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China's global health diplomacy

14.02.2023 Publikation, International Community and Civil Society
In its pursuit to reform the international order, Beijing views third (developing) states as its main allies and health diplomacy as an essential tool to build international coalitions.
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Porträts von zwei Männern und Zwei Frauen in Bürokleidung. Titel: No more too little too late. For a sustainable solution to the global debt crisis

In Search for Consensus. A Sovereign Insolvency Procedure as a Way Out of the Debt Crisis?

07.02.2023 Veranstaltung, Video
“The issue of sustainable debt is probably one of the biggest challenges we're currently facing. We are talking about fighting climate change, we're talking about global challenges such as migration, digital transformation. And when certain countries...
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Social Protection Floor Index
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Social Protection Floor Index

For millions of people the Corona virus is both a threat to their health and their job. Now is the moment to push governments towards establishing basic social protection. As an instrument to exert pressure, FES offers a map that identifies gaps in social protection worldwide. more

Spotlight 2030
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Spotlight 2030

How close is the global community to reaching the Sustainability Goals? The annual Spotlight Report focuses on obstacles and contradictions regarding the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. more

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