Trade and Labor Migration: GATS Mode 4 and Migration Agreements
Marion Panizzon
Marion Panizzon, a distinct expert on trade law, looks into the reality and potential of GATS Mode 4 to unleash and manage global labor mobility. From the recently evolving bilateral migration treaties she derives the ingredients that Mode 4 would need to incorporate to maximize the dividends associated with labor migration for the individual migrants and their countries of origin and destination alike.
DoG Occasional Paper No. 47, FES Geneva, January 2010
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 New Approaches to Democracy Support
Marc Saxer
This briefing paper is based on the findings of two workshops on “New Challenges of Democracy Promotion,” in Berlin and Brussels where FES invited German and European experts and practitioners to discuss the theoretical foundations of democracy support and a new orientation of approaches and strategies. Popular theses like the "authoritarian reverse wave" and the "democratic performance gap" are critically reviewed. Marc Saxer then presents three strategic suggestions to use dwindling resources more effective: focus on the comparative advantages of individual democracy supporters; develop sub-strategies for Cluster groupings and steer the discourse to support democratic models of development.
DoG Briefing Paper No. 16, FES Berlin, November 2009
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International Trade
in Agriculture and the
Right to Food
Olivier De Schutter
Deriving from the Right to Live, the Right to Food guarantees every human being to be free from hunger. Agricultural trade policy can help fulfilling this right, but may also become a hindrance, if conceived in neglect of human rights. States need to respect human rights obligations they have committed to by ratifying the respective Covenants when entering trade agreements. Based on the report of his mission to the World Trade Organization (WTO), the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Olivier De Schutter calls for a strengthening of the special role of agriculture in trade agreements to ensure their compatibility with the states obligation to fulfill their populations' Right to Food. In conclusion, he shows actual possibilities to reconcile trade policy with human rights requirements.
DoG Occasional Paper No. 46, FES Geneva, November 2009
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The Future of Peacekeeping Operations: Fighting Political Fatigue and Overstretch
Richard Gowan
Drawing from the insights of an international policy debate on peacekeeping overstretch co-organized by FES, Gowan identifies major stresses of the UN and non-UN peacekeeping system. Analyzing the biggest UN (DRC) and NATO (Afghanistan) peace operations, he blames "risk transferral" and mistrust as key obstacles, driving political divergences and operational mismanagement. He proposes five policy options for greater transparency and trust, allowing better peacekeeping strategies, e.g. a head-of-government conference to foster strategic discussion.
Briefing Paper No. 3-2009, FES New York, March 2009
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A new era of world hunger? The global food crisis analyzed
James A. Paul and Katarina Wahlberg
This paper takes as a starting point an international conference, held in New York in April 2008, organized by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and the Global Policy Forum. Paul and Wahlberg consider the right to food and analyze the role of the United Nations in responding to the global food crisis. They argue for effective short-term aid and long-term transformation of the agricultural system to make it more justly distributive, resilient, and sustainable for the future.
Briefing Paper 7-2008, FES New York, August 2008
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The HRC Universal Periodic Review: A preliminary assessment
Theodor Rathgeber
Briefing Paper 6-2008, FES Geneva, July 2008
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Towards a Less Imperfect State of the World: The Gulf Between North and South
Ramesh Thakur
Ramesh Thakur gives a tour d'horizon of the challenges in seven key areas of international policy from a Southern perspective. He identifies differences in perceptions and interests towards war, nuclear weapons, the use of force, "humanitarian interventions", human rights, terrorism and climate change. Thakur offers policy options and stresses the importance of the rule of law to overcome North-South divides.
Briefing Paper 5-2008, FES Berlin, April 2008
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The Politics of Responsibility to Protect
Marc Saxer
The intricate process that led up to the appointment of a UN Special Adviser on R2P sheds a light on the political landscape surrounding the concept. Marc Saxer analyses the political environment and the strategies of the main actors in the struggle over this emerging norm. He points out some shortcomings of the concept and offers policy options to move the agenda. Saxer argues that it will be crucial to find a broad international consensus how to tackle mass atrocities in internal conflicts in order to overcome ideological debates that repeatedly block political decision making in cases where timely action is needed.
Dialogue on Globalization Briefing Paper 2-2008, FES Berlin, April 2008
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 2nd part of the 6th Session of the UN Human Rights Council
December 10-14, 2007
Theodor Rathgeber, Forum Human Rights Germany
Fact Sheet N° 2, FES Geneva, February 2008
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 Reconciliation and Development
Karen Brounéus
In many conflict and post-conflict countries, situations in which peace and justice appear to compete with one another are on the rise.To show how to constructively deal with tensions that can arise was the aim of the international conference in Nuremberg, on 25-27 June 2007, entitled "Building a Future on Peace and Justice".
These Occasional Papers contributed to the preparation of a workshop on Reconciliation at the conference that had been jointly organized by The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation and FES. Brounéus provides an overview of some key concerns regarding reconciliation in relation to justice,
security, and politics respectively, and their policy implications. She introduces recent research on truth commissions and truth telling. Brounéus argues that if security is not provided, the process of reconciliation may risk to backlash in increased violence or in suppression of truth.
Occasional Paper 36, FES Berlin, November 2007
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Gender justice and reconciliation
Nahla Valji
Valji's Occasional Papers also contributed to the preparation Reconciliation workshop at the "Peace and Justice" conference.
Valji examines how women's experiences of conflict and transition differ to that of men because of inherent gendered power relations. The paper discusses the specific needs of women within post-conflict systems that are male-orientated, and examines the assumptions of the transitional justice field from a gendered perspective.
Occasional Paper 35 | 2007, FES Berlin, November 2007
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Fine tuning the institution building
The 6th Session of the UN Human Rights Council, 10-28 September
Felix Kirchmeier
Fact Sheet N° 7, FES Geneva, October 2007
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Construyendo un Nuevo Consejo
de Derechos Humanos:
Resultado y Análisis de un año
de construcción institucional
Meghna Abraham
FES Occasional Paper N°33, FES Geneva, August 2007
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Building the new Human Rights Council: outcome and analysis of the institution-building year
Meghna Abraham
FES Occasional Paper N°33, FES Geneva, August 2007
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The U.N. Counter-Terrorism Committee: An Institutional Analysis
C.S.R. Murty
Briefing Paper 15-2007, FES New York, September 2007
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 Fifth Session of the UN Human Rights Council
Gisela von Keyserlingk
Fact Sheet N° 6, FES Geneva, June 2007
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Growth with responsibility in a globalized world : findings of the Shadow G-8
Joseph E. Stiglitz ; Stephany Griffith-Jones
Occasional paper 31 - FES New York, May 2007
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A Priority Agenda for the Next UN Secretary-General
Thomas G. Weiss and Peter J. Hoffman
FES Occasional Paper N°28, FES New York, January 2007
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Second Session of the UN Human Rights Council
Felix Kirchmeier
FES Fact Sheet N°11, FES Geneva, October 2006
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The Right to Development - where do we stand?
Felix Kirchmeier
FES Occasional Paper N° 23, July 2006
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The Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture
Felix Kirchmeier
FES Fact Sheet, FES Geneva, N°8, August 2006
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 A new chapter for human rights
A handbook on issues of transition from the Commission on Human Rights to the Human Rights Council
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Special Session of the Human Rights Council
Felix Kirchmeier
FES Fact Sheet, FES Geneva, July 2006
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United Nations Democracy Fund
Volker Lehmann
FES Fact Sheet, FES New York, May 2006
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Global Democracy in the Nexus of Governments, Parliaments, Parties and Civil Society
Christoph Zöpel
FES Occasional Paper, N° 21, FES New York, October 2005
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A question of political will :
the Helsinki process report on globalisation and democracy
Jens Martens
FES Briefing Paper, FES Berlin, August 2005
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 A Question of Political Will - The Helsinki Process Report on Globalisation and Democracy
Jens Martens
FES Briefing Paper, FES Berlin, August 2005
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The UN Norms on Corporate Human Rights Responsibilities and their Relationship with Other Regimes of Corporate Accountability
Nils Rosemann
FES-Genf, N° 20 / May 2005,
ISBN 3-89892-385-1, FESOccPapers20
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Die Globalisierungskritiker auf der Suche nach einer Perspektive Ein Bericht vom 5. Weltsozialforum in Porto Alegre
Jürgen Stetten / Jochen Steinhilber
FES Briefing Paper Februar 2005
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Soul-Searching in Porto Alegre. A Report from the 5th World Social Forum
Jürgen Stetten / Jochen Steinhilber
FES Briefing Paper February 2005
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Los "globalicríticos" en búsqueda de una nueva perspectiva - Un informe sobre el 5to Foro Social Mundial en Porto Alegre
Jürgen Stetten/Jochen Steinhilber
FES-Berlin, Feb-05
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Un foro de controversias: criticas a la globalizacion en Mumbai
Jürgen Stetten und Jochen Steinhilber
FES Briefing Papers Enero 2004
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A Forum of Contradictions
Jürgen Stetten und Jochen Steinhilber
FES Briefing Papers January 2004
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Civil-Society Actors: A Democratic Corrective For International Organizations?
Franz Nuschler, March 2003 |
