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25.02.2021

Advancing National Mechanisms for Women’s Rights and Gender Equality

Following the first World Conference on Women in Mexico in 1975, the World Plan for Action for the Implementation of the Objectives of International... More

16.12.2020

The First Decade of the Arab Revolutionary Process

Ten years ago, on 17 December 2010, a young street vendor in the town of Sidi Bouzid in central Tunisia sparked a political firestorm that soon... More

03.11.2020

Young Progressive Voices from the MENA Region Advocate for Security Through Regional Cooperation

In 2019, the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) and the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) selected a distinguished group of progressive young... More

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

Department for Middle East and North Africa
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Hiroshimastraße 28
10785 Berlin

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Offices in the Region

Economic Policies for Social Justice

The issue of Social Justice is at the core of politics in the Arab world today. More

Regional Trade Union Program

Trade unions have played an important political role during the political unrest. More

FES Regional Peace and Security Project

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is currently home to many of the world’s deadliest conflicts, many unsolved... More

Regional Young Leaders Program

The Young Leaders’ Regional Thematic Network (RTN) is a programme designed for young adults. More

Climate and Energy

Climate Justice, social consequences of Climate Change, Renewable Energy, and Energy Efficiency... More

Promoting Migration Governance

Cooperation between trade unions & stakeholders in North Africa, West Africa & Europe. More

Political Feminism

There is no social justice without gender justice and there is no gender justice without socio-political and economic reforms. More

Youth Study

In 2015, five years after the Arab Spring, the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung assigned TNS Infratest, in collaboration with a scientific... More

Events

03.11.2020

In 2019, the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) and the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) selected a distinguished group of progressive young…

24.09.2020

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04.09.2020

In this online debate series, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the German Development Institute invite experts to discuss how international…

Publications

27.01.2021

It was young Arab women who mainly drove the events that led to the so-called Arab Spring. They demanded socioeconomic justice and mobilised…

27.01.2021

The feminization, invisibilization, and undervaluation of care work are three factors that contribute in major ways to the precarity of women’s lives…

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The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) is a non-profit German foundation funded by the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany, and headquartered in Bonn and Berlin. It was founded in 1925 and is named after Germany's first democratically elected President, Friedrich Ebert. FES is committed to the advancement of both socio-political and economic development in the spirit of social democracy, through civic education, research, and international cooperation. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung is the oldest political foundation in Germany.

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Advancing National Mechanisms for Women’s Rights and Gender Equality

The First Decade of the Arab Revolutionary Process

Young Progressive Voices from the MENA Region Advocate for Security Through Regional Cooperation

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

Economic Policies for Social Justice

Regional Trade Union Program

FES Regional Peace and Security Project

Regional Young Leaders Program

Climate and Energy

Promoting Migration Governance

Political Feminism

Youth Study

Events

Young Progressive Voices from the MENA Region Advocate for Security Through Regional Cooperation

Global Green Deals Forum

Online Debate Series - Until debt tear us apart? #10Y_ArabSpring

Publications

The current faces of Arab feminism

Care work and the Pandemic – Policy Brief

FES in the MENA region - social media profiles

FES in Jordan and Iraq

FES in Palestine

FES in Lebanon

FES in Israel

FES in Egypt

FES in Sudan

FES in Libya

FES in Tunisia

FES in Algeria

FES in Morocco

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