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As central banks tighten monetary policy, dozens of climate-vulnerable, highly-indebted countries teeter on the edge of a financial abyss. To address the confluence of economic and environmental disasters ravaging the Global South, the international community must provide immediate debt relief in exchange for green investments.

In the book "Collected Silence," Sharon Dodua Otoo has opened up new perspectives on the life and work of Heinrich Böll. In an interview, the writer now explores the now famous Nobel Prize lecture that Heinrich Böll wrote fifty years ago. A conversation about the possibility of language, poetry and other realities - beyond prevailing reason.

When Heinrich Böll was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972, the general tenor was that it was an explicitly political award. That image is wrong, and it was wrong even then.

Syrian lawyer Joumana Seif is the 2023 Anne Klein Women's Laureate. She strives for the political participation of women and the recognition of gender-based violence as a crime against humanity as well as its punishment. Kristin Helberg describes her journey from Damascus to Berlin.

Joumana Seif has been working in the human rights field since 2001 and supported the democratic movements in Syria with a focus on political prisoners. She left Syria in 2012, a year after the start of the uprising against the Assad regime.

With the future of biodiversity on the line, UN member states meeting in Montreal this December must set a framework for a new conservation paradigm.

War and armed conflict almost always go hand in hand with sexual violence – rape, sexual slavery, forced marriage. On occasions when it seems pertinent, such as in the context of the current war in Ukraine, politicians and the media talk about the issue and condemn the violence, but their rhetoric is short on substance.

Countries such as Poland or Hungary frequently face criticism for a lack of media freedom. Their governments dispute that they oppose critical media. Yet, restrictions on media freedom come in many shapes and sizes.

Founded in 2021, the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Tirana Office, works to build and expand democratic, accessible and diverse public spaces in urban as well as rural areas in Albania.

The Egyptian regime is using COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh to distract from its ongoing crackdown on civil society by touting its sustainability credentials.