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The Zarqa based Bushra Center for Women Studies has implemented a project entitled “Campaigning for Women in Zarqa Governorate”. The project, organized in partnership with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, is a continuation of Bushra Center’s and FES’ successful 2008 project. It is aiming at promoting women rights in the governorate of Zarqa by presenting arguments supporting women participation in political, social and economic life. more
With the publication of the study "The Professional Associations – the Challenges of Participation and Change", Al Badeel Center for Studies and Training, in partnership with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, has concluded the project on ways to reform Jordan’s professional Associations.
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After their successful partnership in developing an alternative elections law proposal, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Al-Badeel Center for Studies and Training continued their efforts in the field of legislation reform by working on the other two important laws that affect the political life in Jordan: The Political Parties Law and the Public Meetings law. more
The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) and the Royal Scientific Society (RSS) have published a study on the Qualified Industrial Zones (QIZ) in Jordan. In 1997, Jordan, Israel and the U.S. had signed the agreement of the QIZ. Production started in 1998. This study entitled “Ten Years of Qualified Industrial Zones: Absolute or Relative Success” has been conducted to evaluate the first ten years of the existence of these zones. more
For the first time since the beginning of the Iraq program of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in 2003, a FES delegation has visited the Iraqi capital Baghdad on a fact finding and coordination mission from 11 to 14 January 2010. The delegation consisted of Hajo Lanz, the Head of the Middle East and North Africa Department at FES headquarters in Berlin, Achim Vogt, the country director of the foundation’s Jordan and Iraq program as well as Mohammed Khalil, the Iraq Program Manager at FES Amman Office. more
The Iraqi Democratic Future Network (IDFN) has organized 280 Refresher Training Workshops aiming at preparing 14,000 local elections observers to monitor the coming Parliamentary Elections that will take place in 2010. more
The Iraqi Democratic Future Network (IDFN) represented by the Tammuz Organization for Social Development (TOSD) held a press conference on Saturday, 10 October 2009 in Baghdad to present the main remarks and recommendations related to the Voter Registry Update (VRU) process in Iraq. more
More than half of the period specified for the Voter Registry Update process (VRU) has passed as part of the preparation for the Parliamentary Elections, planned for January 2010. The Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) of Iraq has opened 1,082 centers in order to update the Voter Registry in the period between 22 August and 21 September 2009. The observers of the Iraqi Democratic Future Network (IDFN) have been monitoring the process in most of the centers; the following general remarks were reported:
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