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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
Artwork by Fabeha Monir.

Our view

We are living in a disaster movie

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by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
Fabeha Monir.

Artist of the month

Fabeha Monir is an independent photojournalist from Bangladesh

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by D+C / E+Z
On the Pacific island of Pele, in Vanuatu – which is repeatedly affected by climate crises – gravestones from a submerged cemetery have been washed ashore.

Migration

“The key is to invest earlier”

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by Amy Pope
by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
A China-made truck for export to Africa is loaded onto a China-Africa shipping route at Yantai Port in Shandong Province.

Macroeconomics

How China’s export policy impacts the Global South

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by Wolfgang Krieger
In 2025, Germany’s Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Reem Alabali Radovan, visited the municipal groundwater source in Amman together with Jihad Al-Mahamid, Secretary-General of Jordan’s Ministry of Water and Irrigation.

International cooperation

An investment in water is an investment in security

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by Reem Alabali Radovan
The German broadcaster DW designed an app to circumvent digital censorship.

Good News

Kenya as a pioneer of clean energy and a German app designed to circumvent censorship

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by D+C / E+Z
Iranian journalist Hannah Kaviani participated in the Global Media Forum 2026 in Bonn.

Media

Independent journalism in the age of Big Tech and AI

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by Lucia Deon
Terminology relating to the start-up world can be confusing.

Glossary

Key terms to know when talking about start-ups

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by Sarah Heinz
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