Recharge your Batteries

How a Digital Workplace has Helped Rina Balance a Busy Family Life and a Career in Technology

The final installment of our series on women entrepreneurs features Rina Wija Astuti of Indonesia. She shares how digitalization is transforming her battery business. This feature is part of a series by KAS SOPAS and Woomentum on women-owned SMEs (WSMEs) in four Southeast Asian countries. It focuses on how digitalization presents new opportunities for women-owned businesses and how it could help them overcome their gender specific challenges.

Representación política de las mujeres … y el atractivo de los partidos

Elke Wiechmann

Articulo publicado en Análisis & Argumentos, edición No. 416 / noviembre 2020.

The New Turkish Presence in North Africa: Ambitions and Challenges

Mediterranean Dialogue Series no. 33

The paper aims to identify the main goals of Turkey's new policy toward North Africa, analyzes how states of the region perceive the new presence of Turkey in the region, and addresses the major challenges facing this Turkish strategy.

The Spice of Life

How Technology is Helping Khim’s Traditional Cambodian Meatballs Reach the Global Market

The ninth installment of our series on #women #entrepreneurs, features Sok Khim from #Cambodia. She shares how the COVID-19 pandemic is changing her business, forcing her to come up with innovative solutions. This feature is part of a series by KAS SOPAS and Woomentum on women-owned SMEs (#WSMEs) in four Southeast #Asian countries. It focuses on how #digitalization presents new opportunities for women-owned businesses and how it could help them overcome their gender specific challenges.

Water Security, Pandemic and Climate Change.

Incorporating Public Health into Future Water Policy: Perspectives from South Asian Countries

This study aims to explore the dynamics between public health and water security under the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in all eight South Asian countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Experts from these countries have been asked what the current and future situations are in relation to water security and the pandemic, and how the pandemic reveals the relation and dynamic between water security and public health. The data displayed in this publication are until late August.

„Der Kanzler hat gekniet“

50. Jahrestag des Kniefalls von Bundeskanzler Willy Brandt in Warschau

Wir erinnern an die Geste des damaligen deutschen Bundeskanzlers Willy Brandt in Warschau, der als erster Bundeskanzler nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg aus Anlass der Unterzeichnung des Warschauer Vertrages nach Polen reiste. Der Kniefall vor dem Denkmal der Helden des Ghettos am 7. Dezember 1970 war eine zutiefst persönliche Reaktion des Regierungsoberhauptes und ist in der deutschen Erinnerungskultur eng verbunden mit der Aufnahme politischer Beziehungen zwischen der Bundesrepublik und der damaligen Volksrepublik Polen und der darauffolgenden Normalisierung zwischen unseren beiden Ländern.

Neustart der Regierung in Guatemala

Wöchentlich Neues aus Guatemala, Honduras und El Salvador

Liebe Interessierte an der Arbeit der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Guatemala und Honduras: Wie wirkt sich die Corona-Pandemie in Mittelamerika aus? Welche anderen Ereignisse des politischen und wirtschaftlichen Lebens in diesen Ländern geschehen sonst noch? Und wie arbeitet die KAS eigentlich unter den derzeitigen Bedingungen? Wenn Sie die Antworten auf diese oder ähnliche Fragen interessieren, bieten wir Ihnen in diesem Blog Woche für Woche die wichtigsten Neuigkeiten und einen kleinen Einblick. Danke für Ihr Interesse und viel Vergnügen bei der Lektüre.

A Guide for Radio Journalists on Devolution

Devolution and Media

Understanding the concept of devolution and its key functions and public participation still remains a challenge in majority of our counties. Media which includes local radio stations have been mentioned as one of the stakeholders that can enhance public participation at the counties. This radio discussion Tool kit seeks to educate the radio journalists in four counties where the KAS devolution program is implemented in Kenya on how best they can inform/educate their audience about matters devolution and how to participate in it.

African Human Rights Law Journal

The African Human Rights Law Journal (AHRLJ) is a leading peer-reviewed journal focusing on human rights related topics of relevance to Africa, Africans and scholars of Africa. As democratic practices and the protection o f human rights struggle to become rooted in Africa, the Journal aims to contribute towards strengthening indigenous African scholarship.

MODEL OF LEBANESE-ARMENIANS

The “MODEL OF LEBANESE-ARMENIANS” written by Yeghia Tashjian analyses the impact of the communitarian approach as a way for Re-discovering Armenian Nationalism, responding to socio-economic crisis and rendering a consolidated communitarian response front vis a vis challenges. Download the article to learn more about it.