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Yuval Abraham (left), an Israeli film director, was accused of antisemitic rhetoric after speaking out against his government’s policies at Berlinale, the Berlin film festival.

Historical responsibility

Misguided fight against antisemitism

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by Hans Dembowski
Political activism matters: trade-union protest in Seoul in 2023.

Post-colonial misery

Whose development?

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by Sundus Saleemi
Sundus Saleemi
Indigenous Bolivians take part in a rally for President Evo Morales in 2019.

Latin America

Indigenous politics in Ecuador and Bolivia

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by Franz Flores Castro
Pesticide application on a wheat field in Punjab, India.

Sustainability

Rethinking agricultural productivity

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by Hannah Schragmann
Indigenous leaders rally to protect the Amazon rainforest ahead of the Amazon Summit in Belem, Brazil, in 2023.

Global Governance

The drivers of change are at the local level

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by Pirmin Spiegel
by Jörg Döbereiner
Civil society matters: activists demanding action from G20 in Jakarta in 2023.

Global development

Facilitating constructive cooperation in a multipolar world

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by Anna-Katharina Hornidge
Anna-Katharina Hornidge
The Kenyan Ogiek community filed a lawsuit to challenge the eviction from Mau Forest, their home, in favour of planned carbon offsetting schemes.

Carbon credits

Africa is chasing billions

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by Wanjohi Kabukuru
UN Security Council meeting in September 2023.

Multilateral organisations

What geopolitics have to do with golf clubs

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by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
Wildfire on Rhodes, the Greek island, in summer 2023.

Global sustainability

The reasons why global environmental policymaking has failed so far

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by Hans Dembowski
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