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  |   Ann Cathrin Riedel

European Democracy Action Plan: Mechanisms Over Content

While in Germany one often has the feeling that disinformation does not pose a serious threat to social cohesion and democratic discourse, the debate has already progressed considerably at the...

European Democracy Action Plan: Mechanisms Over Content
  |   Thomas Ilka

Europe at the End of 2020: A New Start or More of the Same?

This week, EU heads of state and government are meeting once again for an EU summit. The agenda includes the COVID 19 pandemic, climate change, security and external relations. What is the state of...

Europe at the End of 2020: A New Start or More of the Same?

Equal Rights for LGBTI+ are a Win-Win-Solution

Today is a very special day: Every year on December 10, we celebrate Human Rights Day. On this day, back in 1948, the United Nationals General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human...

LGBTQI+

Two Key Audiences I Live For: Women & ‘Deviant’ Groups

A few months later, I joined African Women and Child Feature Services as an intern. One of my assignments was to cover the World Social Forum which took place at the beginning of 2007. The fact that...

Civil society for women

Property Rights Indispensable to Brighter Future for Women in Africa

Women in Africa remain excluded from the benefits of property ownership, and this must receive the attention of African policy makers and society at large. This is the message from a new study by the...

Property rights

The Danger of Living with Albinism in a Highly Superstitious Society

While he speaks openly about his condition, he is clearly still very distressed by the circumstances in which he lost his elder brother, Enoch Lugadiru, almost exactly five years ago. Enoch died after...

Albinism

Abortion in Senegal: The dilemma of single women

"A friend told me about a clinic that performs medical abortions clandestinely but in good conditions. However, they gave me an estimate that exceeds my annual salary and Matar does not want to...

Abortion Senegal

Disinformation and the threat to democracy

Democracy is under threat worldwide. Disinformation campaigns deliberately seeking to polarise public opinion and undermine trust in government are wreaking havoc with democratic institutions and...

Disinformation and Democracy
  |   Karl-Heinz Paqué

Covid-19 vaccine: Why we should bow to capitalism right now

Critics of capitalism often accuse pharmaceutical companies of greedy profit-making at the expense of the poor and sick. However, the development of a vaccine in the corona pandemic also shows that...

Karl-Hein Paqué

Free and Fair Elections: 10 Years of Freedom Barometer

There is an Urge for new political strategies in democracies. The role of elections as an institution whose aim is to protect, strengthen, and foster democracy has been increasingly and continuously...

Freedom Barometer - Free and Fair Elections