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She, too, is on the US sanctions list: Tomoko Akane, the Japanese President of the ICC.

Sanctions

The USA’s attack on international law

The International Criminal Court has been upholding international law and prosecuting international crimes against humanity since 2002. Now the Trump administration is trying to dismantle it with sanctions against ICC staff.

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by Sonja Peteranderl

Latest contributions

Hadzabe hunters light a fire near Lake Eyasi in northern Tanzania.

Indigenous knowledge

How Indigenous rules can help curb wildfires

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by Lawrence Kilimwiko
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
Processing and selling cassavas leaves can provide an income to women in Burundi.

Women’s independence

What Sarah makes before Burundi wakes: the business of cassava leaves

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by Mireille Kanyange
Selma Bichbich campaigns internationally for young people to have a greater say in politics.

Youth

“Our generation will lead differently”

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by Selma Bichbich
by Eva-Maria Verfürth
Women are primarily responsible for managing their families’ daily lives in the Aboutengue refugee camp.

Women in conflicts

Women’s daily lives in a refugee camp: attacks, shortages and queues

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by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
Protests to mark International Women’s Day in Santiago de Chile in 2025.

Novel

One of many marginalised workers speaks out

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by Jörg Döbereiner
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
“Bitcoin accepted” – in some restaurants in cities such as Kampala, customers can pay with Bitcoin.

Digital payment

How Bitcoin can be used to drive development

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by Christoph Schneider-Yattara
Their herds are an integral part of the Maasai identity.

CO₂ compensation

For VW to receive CO₂ credits, the Maasai’s cattle must run faster

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by Lawrence Kilimwiko
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
Information boards for visitors highlight the progress made in protecting the Kasibo Wetland.

Wetlands

How the village of Kasibo in Zimbabwe reinvented itself

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by Calvin Manika
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
Artwork by Fabeha Monir.

Our view

We are living in a disaster movie

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by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno

Development assistance

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

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by Raphael Mweninguwe
An anti-corruption demonstration in Abuja in 2016. Ten years on, the situation has not improved significantly.

Corruption

Protecting the people who know where the money went

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by Obongodu Paul Unanam
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
Chinese-made vehicles are waiting to be loaded onto ships for export in Yantai City, Shandong Province, China.

Statistics

China’s development in nine numbers

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by Lucia Deon
A child undergoing a blood test in the context of the major HIV outbreak in Ratodero, Pakistan, in 2019.

Children’s health

In Pakistan, some hospitals have become places of infection

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by Aqsa Younas
Tuareg on their camels in Niger.

Indigenous Peoples

Learning climate resilience from the Tuareg

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by Rachid Bouajila
The village of Pratab Nagar in Satkhira Province is one of the many places in Bangladesh severely affected by climate change, including rising water levels, erosion and salinisation.

Disaster management and preparedness

More than just survival

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by Md. Bodrud-Doza
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
Chinese thermal imaging cameras are exported worldwide and are increasingly used for surveillance as well.

Internet governance

State sovereignty and censorship

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by Isah Shafiq
The body of a Kenyan domestic worker who died under unclear circumstances in Saudi Arabia is carried out of a hearse in Kenya in 2023.

Migration

For many Kenyans, seeking work abroad still comes at a high price

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by Joseph Maina
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

Contributors

by Boro Baski
Boro Baski
Why some Indian farmers are backing away from rice cultivation
by Henning Melber
Justice after genocide
by Roli Mahajan
Why young Indians are proud to call themselves cockroaches
by Hildegard Lingnau
Hildegard Lingnau
Many crops are neglected in spite of being vitally important
by Arfa Khanum Sherwani
Arfa Khanum Sherwani
Need for government advertising makes media vulnerable
by José Siaba Serrate
José Siaba Serrate
What G7 should do in response to sovereign debt crises
by Achim Steiner
In a time of disruption, we still have prospects
by Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar
Promoting pluralistic discourse
by Markus Loewe
Markus Loewe
Financing health systems for informal workers
by David Mfitumukiza
David Mfitumukiza
Pressure on wildlife in Uganda
by Alphonce Shiundu
Alphonce Shiundu
How China is expanding its media influence in Africa
by Fabio Andrés Díaz Pabón
A growing appeal for authoritarian rule
by Mona Naggar
Mona Naggar
There are very few educational opportunities for refugees in Lebanon
by Ben Ezeamalu
Ben Ezeamalu
Why many Africans must rely on informal health care
by Aditi Roy Ghatak
Why India and China are realigning their relations
by Mahwish Gul
Mahwish Gul
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography
by Ndongo Samba Sylla
Ndongo Samba Sylla
Giving voice to the voiceless
by Kathrin Berensmann
Kathrin Berensmann
Ideas to reform debt policy
by Suparna Banerjee
Suparna Banerjee
The ecosystem of hate
by Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi
China is a main character, but Africa needs to write the script
by Bimbola Oyesola
Bimbola Oyesola
A powerful role model for African girls
by Samir Abi
African responsibility for climate justice
by Virginia Mercado
Virginia Mercado
Mexico’s first female president
by Praveen Jha
US tariffs will aggravate economic crises in the Global South
by Hugh Williamson
Hugh Williamson
The internet is crucial
by Sundus Saleemi
Sundus Saleemi
Whose development?
by Marva Khan
Marva Khan
Tangible action needed in Pakistan
by Imran Mukhtar
Can India withhold Pakistan’s water?
by André de Mello e Souza
Trump’s vision to reclaim the “US backyard”
by Svenja Schulze
Svenja Schulze
Women, climate and chocolate

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