To mitigate climate change, Asia needs to undergo a transition towards a low-carbon economy, suggests the climate team of FES in Asia, since May with...

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...

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

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

Brothers in spirit – Russia and the European right wing

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

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

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

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

Shalini Sinha of WIEGO, a global network focused on securing livelihoods for the working poor, talks about the need to think outside the box when it comes to supporting women in informal employment.

Workers’ education can support trade union affiliates to rely on their capacity for strategic thinking and action, asserting union power for a strong and vibrant labour movement.

Each year, the Global Labour University (GLU) invites applicants to its graduate programmes on policies for social justice. An alumnus speaks of her good fortune in attending one.

Artivist Emilia de Sousa uses art to confront the image of women in a capitalist and patriarchal society

Implications of gender-based affirmative action in politics for young women leaders in Uganda was the subject of a workshop held in Kampala, an occasion for an interview on the topic with Maria Alesi, one of the organizers.

With 4 million photographs of which 300,000 digital files, the Archives of Social Democracy in Bonn holds the largest photo depository on the workers' and social movements in Europe.

The scope and ambition of connectivity projects under the general umbrella of the Belt and Road Initiative will alter the economic map of Eurasia profoundly but their potential goes beyond this.

Central Asian states must proactively shape international coalitions to make Belt and Road projects bearers of good global governance norms and standards.

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.

"The transformation that the Paris Agreement calls for so urgently will only secure broad-based public support if there is a narrowing of...

International brands and competition on foreign direct investment are pushing labour standards to the bottom, a new study by FES Vietnam shows

The ever-growing automotive sector of emerging countries nurtures hopes and concerns for the future, reports a new study by FES

On the Hungarian law governing referendums and how they have been abused by the government of Victor Orbán to dismantle direct democracy in Hungary

Reclaiming inequality as the core aspect of feminism, a political feminist agenda can change reactive politics