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The Green Wave has spread across Latin America: A policewoman raises her arm as she guards members of feminist collectives protesting in the streets of Mexico City in 2023. She wears a green ribbon in solidarity.

Misogyny and authoritarianism

When authoritarians are on the rise, it’s bad news for women’s rights

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by Macarena Sáez
by Eva-Maria Verfürth
Fleeing again and again: People displaced by fighting leave their camp following an order from M23 rebels in Goma.

Conflict

The international community must pay attention to the DRC

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by Miriam Ogutu

Children in conflict

Almost half a million Cameroonian children are out of school

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by Amindeh Blaise Atabong
While hundreds of thousands in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon cannot go to school, classes are running in the French-speaking regions.

Education

Hope for Cameroon’s children – just not enough

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by Amindeh Blaise Atabong
The protest icons of the 21st century are mostly women: The photograph of nurse Ieshia Evans facing riot police while protesting police violence in Baton Rouge, USA, became a symbol of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Our view

Women are leading change

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by Eva-Maria Verfürth
Cameroonians in the diaspora gathered to protest in Rome in 2017 at the start of the Anglophone conflict. The crisis continues to this day.

Women in conflict

Rebuilding lives in times of crisis

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by Glein Neneng
Young adults participate in The People's Plenary organized by civil society organizations in Caspian Plenary Room in Blue Zone during the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP29.

Service

International conferences in 2025

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by D+C / E+Z
Discussion panel at the BMZ event Rethinking development policy: How to confront coloniality.

Overcoming colonialism

Cooperation, not assistance: overcoming colonial patterns

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by Jörg Döbereiner

Social media

European democracies under attack from North America

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by Hans Dembowski
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