by: Ivan Hadar (published in Jakarta Post, July 25, 2009) Globally, every seven seconds a child under ten years old dies from hunger. Meanwhile, according to research released by the UN in 2008, some 826 million people around the world are permanently suffering severe malnutrition. In Indonesia, news of malnutrition and deaths caused by starvation
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by: Phang Siew Nooi, University of Malaya (Reference: Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance. Issue 1, May 2008.) Local government in Malaysia occupies the third and lowest level after federal and state governments. Under the Malaysian federal constitution (paragraphs 4 and 5 of the Ninth Schedule), local government is the responsibility of the states, but the
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(from FES Occasional Paper No. 42) Four principles guide the social democratic response: Solutions must be consistent with basic values of social justice and social solidarity as well as basic notions of fairness The bonds of social solidarity cross national boundaries; we cannot take actions to help ourselves at the expense of those in the
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The Exhibition entitled “For Freedom and Social Justice” was successfully launched by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) Manila on 23 May 2009, at the Discovery Suites, Ortigas Center, Pasig City. Invited guests were able to view the 32 panels which chronicle the history of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) of Germany, from its inception in
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“Responding to the Global Financial crisis: Can ASEAN get its act together?”, by: Christopher Ng “Lessons from Thailand for the States in Asia and South-East Asia in the contemporary economic crisis and prospecting for a sustainability of social democracy?”, by: Dr. Chokchai Suttawet “Direction and Ambivalence in the Local Governance Work of Akbayan”, by: Jude
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