The Maras: when social protection fails, security crumbles
In Central America, FES works to revert a vicious cycle where weak social protection and restrictive immigration policies make criminal street gangs...
In 1848, as the Austrian Empire was in the grips of the revolutions sweeping central Europe that year, Karl Marx travelled to Vienna for his brief and...
More studies needed on the exclusion and marginalization of women and girls
“There is a deficit of academically grounded understandings of the structures and strategies of power as it negotiates itself to exist and function in...
FES in Mexico is supporting female workers to integrate their long-promoted demands in the new Federal Labour Law, following Mexico's most important...
Fighting the colony: Women activism beyond suffrage
More than a century has passed since Putri Mardika, Indonesia’s first ever women's organization, was established but challenges persist in the efforts...
"Information on the projects should be available to the public"
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.
Same words, different language: The meaning of “migration” viewed from Europe and Africa
The absence of a real migration policy based on African realities should dispel any remaining illusion about the gulf separating the European and African understandings of the question, writes civil society activist from Côte...
Racialization of cities persists in post-apartheid South Africa
South Africa’s cities are still largely divided along the fault lines of class and race, a quarter century after the official end of apartheid. FES spoke to Khanya Bonani, an alumnus of the Fort Hare Autumn School Programme,...
German politics and Latin America: What's there in the Bundestag election for the sub-continent?
Former FES Mexico staff, doctoral student and lecturer Zirahuén Villamar analyses the Impact of the German elections for Latin America and Germany’s ‘other’ transatlantic relation.
Feminism from memory: Community feminism in Bolivia
A workshop in La Paz on community feminism, movement for political action that questions the definitions and chronology posed by feminist currents arising in the past in Europe and the United States.
Nueva Sociedad – A magazine for leftist debate in changing times
Buenos Aries (Argentina) – Founded during the military dictatorship in Argentina, Nueva Sociedad can boast of decades long history and a vigorous team keeping progressive thought on the upbeat in the region.
Integrated strategies for socially just neighbourhoods
Rising rents, long commutes, more pollution are among the negative consequences of growing cities in Germany that have affected especially people with low and medium income.
Indebted countries that receive a debt relief continue to return to square one, a poignant lesson in the history of debt that should encourage progressive economic solutions to indebtedness presented in this contribution by...
The diversity in feminist positions, especially on grounds of how patriarchy has arisen and how it should be challenged and defeated requires to move...
Empowerment and networking as foundations of integration policy
The "success stories" of integration policy tell of effective self-organizing. A brief survey of three central areas of integration – housing, work,...
Why Europe's border security approach has failed and how to replace it
Using ethnographic examples, anthropologist Ruben Andersson in this study goes against the grain of conventional approaches to migration as "crisis"...