With 90 percent of the ballots counted, the results of the October 27 presidential election give an outright victory to Georgian Dream’s (GD) candidate Giorgi Margvelashvili with over 62 percent of the votes. These results, if confirmed, mean that there will not be a second election round, as predicted by Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili (GD), who announced he would resign after the presidential election. The election result also means consolidation of Georgian Dream’s power, since the party is now in charge of both the presidency and the government for the first time. The official voter turnout was 46.6 percent, which is lower than during last year’s parliamentary elections (61.3 percent).
Kom naar de Africaday Talkshow op de Afrikadag voor een gesprek met bloggers uit de Afrikaanse diaspora over nieuwe media en representatie van Afrika, een interview met de Keniaanse filmmaker Ramadhan Khamis, en een item over de sporen van het Nederlandse slavernijverleden met de presentatoren van het NTR programma 'De Slavernij Voorbij?'.
Afgelopen weekend reisden FMS trainers Marjolein Kampschreur en Samir Španja naar Zenica (Bosnië-Herzegovina) af om een online-communicatietraining te verzorgen voor de jongeren van de Sociaal Democratische Patij (SDP).
Het programma van de Afrikadag op 2 november in het Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen te Amsterdam is inmiddels bekend en met meer dan 30 workshops, debatten, optredens en interviews, valt er veel te kiezen. Daarom zetten we een aantal onderdelen van het programma in de spotlight. Bekijk het volledige programma op www.afrikadag.nl en boek meteen je tickets. Steeds meer workshops raken nu al vol, dus wacht er niet mee!
The Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) together with SOLIDAR is organising a new research programme focussed on Women Rights in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and now they have launched a call for academic papers on this issue. The call is open for independent thinkers, journalists, academics and researchers from the MENA region and the aim is to define the challenges in the promotion of women’s rights and gender equality and enhancing equal participation of women in social, democratic, economic, political and cultural life.
Afgelopen weekend organiseerden we een training in Oekraïne over sociaaldemocratie en gender voor onze partner daar, de Institute for Democracy and Social Progress (IDSP).
In the light of an assessment visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina we organized before the summer break we present you the final report. This visit is part of the European Forum, FEPS and Karl-Renner-Institute project “Enhancing democracy pre and post EU accession”.
European Union officials have expressed their concerns over the ‘continued pressure’ on opposition activists, civil society and independent media in Azerbaijan on October 3rd, ahead of next week’s presidential election.
Gunmen attacked the Russian embassy in the Libyan capital Tripoli on October 2nd, hours after news came out of a Russian woman who had been arrested and accused of killing a Libyan senior military official.
