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A khat seller in Somalia, Kenya’s largest export market for the plant.

Drug trade

How a drug lobby almost reopened a border

Khat exports are worth around $ 100 million a year to Kenya. Farmers and traders hope that their economic and political clout will finally reopen the long-closed border with Somalia permanently.

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by Joseph Maina

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The ICC in The Hague in the Netherlands tries individuals accused of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and crimes of aggression.

International law

“Strengthening civil society means strengthening international law”

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by Kai Ambos
by Eva-Maria Verfürth
Selmin Caliskan is calling on democratic countries to provide better protection for human-rights activists who are facing prosecution.

Transnational repression

How human rights activists are prosecuted abroad

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by Selmin Çalışkan
by D+C / E+Z
A young man is arrested during the protests in Kenya in 2024.

Rules-based world order

Whose rights does international law protect?

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by Shakira Wafula

Climate change

How a new carbon trading system could benefit Zimbabwean communities

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by Lungelo Ndhlovu
Progress has been made in the fight against leprosy and malaria.

Good News

Chile eliminates leprosy, vaccinations help fight malaria

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by D+C / E+Z
For farming communities in Uganda, failed seasons can quickly become debt crises.

Climate change

When failed harvests turn into debt in Uganda

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by Cinderella Ayebare
A protester accuses China of transnational repression against people in the United Kingdom, in London in April.

Transnational repression

A global threat to human rights and their defenders

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by Philipp Frisch
Haitian-born Rayan Dieudonné performs the role of 9-year-old Rico.

Film

A child’s experience of exile

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by Eva-Maria Verfürth
A fighter of the Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) stands in front of the Regional Academy of Education building in Kidal, northern Mali, in May. The building was severely damaged during fighting prior to the FLA’s capture of the city.

Conflicts and climate change

“The Sahel states have to make peace with their own peripheries”

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by Kamal Donko
by Marius Moniak

Development assistance

Malawi’s health sector has seen good progress – now it’s falling apart

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by Raphael Mweninguwe