The expertise hubs enrich the international profile of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom. They enable joint work across regions through their focus on globally relevant policy issues. These include questions of international financial and economic policy, digital policy, security, development and human rights policy.
We are Active in over 60 Countries: The Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom is committed to working with all its strength for a liberal world. Our core concern is the realization of freedom and responsibility. We promote the development of democratic, market-based and constitutional structures so that more and more people can live in a liberal, democratic society.
Through the connection of EU experts, civil society, and decision makers we seek to foster open dialogue and discuss liberal policy solutions to European challenges. Together with our liberal partners, we develop formats and campaigns to promote rule of law, free markets and human rights. Moreover, we coordinate EU co-funded projects in the field of democracy support, development cooperation and human rights protection.
Through our seven offices in the MENA Region, we actively promote the political debate to support innovative liberal approaches and solutions. Our projects are liberal platforms on which the Foundation's partners from the Gulf to the Levant and the entire southern side of the Mediterranean can provide creative impulses and discuss geopolitical issues.
From our seven offices in Sub-Saharan Africa, we focus on promoting political networking. We are committed to strengthening liberalism and promoting human rights, the rule of law and the social market economy.
In North America, our focus is on the transatlantic partnership, which we see as a supporting pillar for the security and stability of Western democracies. We encourage the political debate and develop innovative liberal approaches. In Latin America we work to promote strong democratic institutions, respect for human rights and rule of law as well as promoting liberal dialogue throughout the region.
With its offices in Asia, the foundation supports programs to strengthen democratic processes, particularly free and fair elections, and transparent and accountable governance. The Foundation in the region also showcases innovation as a tool to encourage civic participation that further promotes freedom.
Growing up in one of the poorest rural areas in Vietnam, Bui Thi Suu realized early that education was the best way out of poverty and devoted her youth to studying. With her strong will...
She saved on whatever she could believing that "many a little makes a mickle." During these hard times, she was patient and was never discouraged. She did not allow herself to stop.
Leni has taken up the torch to keep the dying flames of democracy alive. The space that she creates for women empowerment sparks the flame.
SOKOLA has initiated programs in nine different provinces throughout Indonesia, bringing literacy to more than 10,000 individuals, both children and adults in isolated indigenous communities.
As a defender of Taiwan’s sovereignty, Tsai has shown that leaders can quietly but vigorously champion democracy, make it more robust, and let it stand as an example to the rest of the world.
In many parts of the world, women assume the role of primary caregivers in families and communities.
The laws that men designed, supposedly anchored on the divinity of the Quran, are inclined towards expediency, and are biased against women. What should be done to address this?
Women are playing more important roles in business than ever before. They have proven themselves equipped with many of the attributes that translate to successful leadership in business.
The results of the 2018 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), an achievement test taken by 15-year-olds globally, turned the country inside out in December.
In every health course I teach, I always remind the audience with the definition of health. It is easy to equate it with absence of disease, however the World Health Organization