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| 2015, Human Rights and Development | Event

Blind Spots of the Human Rights Council Agenda – Ways to Move Forward

Organized jointly by FES, the German Institute for Human Rights and the NGO Forum for Human Rights, this annual conference focused on the three main themes climate change, non-state armed actors in…

| 2015, Trade and Development | Event

WTO Public Forum: “Trade works…IF” – What Does It Take to Make Trade Work for Development?

Trade can be a vehicle for growth, development and poverty reduction. Harvesting the potential gains trade, however, is not neither automatic nor easy. The mere increase of integration into the…

| 2015, Trade and Development | Event

WTO Public Forum: Trade in Services: Do GATS and TISA Work in the Public Interest?

Trade in services “works” to integrate services sectors into the global economy and to open up markets for transnational suppliers of services. Given the explosion of services able to be contracted…

| 2015, Trade and Development | Event

WTO Public Forum: CFTA: Boosting Trade For People in Africa?

In June 2015, the African Union summit launched negotiations to achieve a free trade area throughout the continent. This panel discussed the context, scope, and sequence of the negotiations. It …

| 2015, Human Rights and Development, Trade and Development | Event

Consultation – HRIA of the CFTA in the Area of Agriculture Policy

The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) was collaborating with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Geneva office on a potential human…

| 2015, Human Rights and Development | Event

From Geneva to Paris: One Voice on Rights for a Just Climate Agreement

In its last Resolution on climate change the HRC has “expressed concerns that climate change has contributed to the increase of both sudden-onset natural disasters and slow on-set events, and that…

| 2015, Human Rights and Development, Employment and Social Policy, Trade and Development | Event

Rights at Work – Rights for Women. Economic Empowerment Through Decent Working Conditions

Women and girls remain overrepresented in the informal economy, labour-intensive and precarious work, and in low-paid jobs. A more transformative approach is required to infuse human rights with …

| 2015, Employment and Social Policy | Event

Global Labour Tax Summit

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung organized in close cooperation with Public Services International (PSI) the Global Labour Tax Summit. Inequality soars while multinational companies with unprecedented …

| Migration, 2015, Human Rights and Development | Event

Step it Up: Dignity – Rights - Development

To mark the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, FES supported the Committee on the Protection of…

| 2015, Peace and Security Policy | Event

Framework Forum Roundtable: From the NTP to the UN General Assembly - Filling the Legal Gap to Prohibit and Eliminate Nuclear Weapons

This forum was co-sponsored by the Middle Powers Initiative, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, Basel Peace Office and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. It discussed the …