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Protest against the disappearance of Mapuche leader Julia Chuñil in Santiago de Chile in April 2025.

Land rights and environmental protection

Where is Julia Chuñil?

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by Javier A. Cisterna Figueroa
For the Maasai, the Earth and its wilderness are the ultimate source of life.

Indigenous medicine

Why Indigenous knowledge must be preserved

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by Lawrence Kilimwiko
In 2018, a memorial service was held in Berlin as part of the repatriation of human remains from Germany to Namibia.

Reparations

Justice after genocide

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by Henning Melber
by Jephta Uavavaera Nguherimo
Where ecosystems are still intact, funding is needed to preserve them. This article is part of a focus section on development finance accompanied by a series of AI-generated images.

Climate finance

“Cutting funds won’t save them”

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by Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
Alejandra Ancheita, feminist lawyer from Mexico.

Women's rights activists

“We have taken several transnational corporations to court”

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by Alejandra Ancheita
Procession on the way back from a tree planting campaign in the Mantogera church forest near Addis Zemen, Amhara region, 2019.

Religion and sustainability

The sacred forests of Ethiopia

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by Christoph Schneider-Yattara
by Peter M. Borchardt
The palace of Khudayar Khan in Kokand, Uzbekistan.

Central Asia

Soviet-era borders cause trouble today

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by Syinat Sultanalieva
Chief Mkwawa

Restitution

No surrender to the Germans

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by Lawrence Kilimwiko
Memorial stone on Namibia’s Shark Island commemorating the Ovaherero-Nama genocide.

German colonialism

The long shadow of German colonialism

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by Jörg Döbereiner
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