On the occasion of World Water Day 2013 (March 22) ZEF co-organized with its partners in Bonn a panel discussion on the overall theme of "Water cooperation: Challenges and opportunities", where representatives of national ministries as well as international and UN agencies discussed latest trends.

ZEF participated in the 2nd Scientific Conference of the UNCCD (United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification) on the "Economic assessment of desertification, sustainable land management and resilience of arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas", held in Bonn, April 9-12, 2013.

ZEF will co-organize a public panel discussion on:

"Women's rights in Afghanistan: status quo and post-2014" on May 27, 2 p.m.

in cooperation with RLC, BICC and Cross Roads Asia.

At the end of the international conference on "Water in the Anthropocene: Challenges for science and governance", held in Bonn last week, the participants called for action to achieve global and sustainable water security. The conference was organized by GWSP and supported by BMBF. A large number of ZEF researchers were among the approximately 300 conference participants.

The "Alternative Nobel" laureates Sima Samar, an Afghan physician and human rights activist, and Monika Hauser, founder of the Germany-based NGO "Medica Mondiale" have been discussing the issue of human and women's rights in Afghanistan at a panel discussion held at ZEF on Monday, May 27.

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Craig L. Katz (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City)

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ana Meijide (University of Bonn)

Speaker: Valentine Opanga, ZEF CPC Junior Researcher

Speakers: Tereza Kaplan, Sebastian Schuster and Arno Bratz (Welthungerhilfe)

Speakers: Prof. Kristi Sydney-Annerstedt, Karolinska Institutet, Department of Global Public Health, Stockholm,

Prof. Alice Owjang Achieng, The Technical University of Kenya, Department of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, Nairobi