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October

Sovereign Debt, the Climate Challenge, and Geoeconomics: Pathways for a Sustainable Global Response

Expert talk Tuesday, 14. October 2025 in Washington D.C.

High-level Event at the IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings 2025
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October

Between Repression and Hope: Hungary’s Civil Society and the Struggle for Democracy Ahead of the 2026 Election

Discussion Wednesday, 15. October 2025 in Berlin

Livestream
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October

Berlin Belarus Future Forum 2025 – For a democratic Belarus in Europe

Expert conference Monday, 20. October 2025 in Berlin
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October

Between Open Arms and Closed Borders

Expert conference Tuesday, 21. October 2025 in Berlin

A Decade of Flight and Arrival in Germany
Livestream
22

October

The desire for being many

Event Wednesday, 22. October 2025 in Berlin

Strategies of Weak Resistance
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October

Reporting the Far Right

Discussion series Thursday, 23. October 2025

A Conversation with Holger Stark and Elisabeth Zerofsky
Livestream

Regions

Human Rights Against Populism - Picture: President Rodrigo Duterte and Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad striking a pose together

Human Rights Against Populism: A Progressive Response to the Politics of Duterte and Mahathir

Background

As the world celebrates the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the region of Southeast Asia highlights two compelling political phenomena: the emergent ‘authoritarian populism’ and the return to the ‘Asian Values’.

Bonn Juego

Western Balkans and Ukraine: EU’s Role in Modernization through higher Climate Ambition

EU’s Role in speeding up energy transition in the Western Balkans and Ukraine

Documentation

Obviously, the destiny of sustainable transition of Western Balkan and Eastern European economies is above all in control of the respective countries themselves. Still, the EU is in a decisive position to create conditions for a dynamic of change and a successful modernisation.

Robert Sperfeld

All Regions

In the words of the Polish journalist and dissident, Adam Michnik, 1989 was Europe's annus mirabilis. The peaceful revolution of that year was a miracle effected by the people in central and eastern Europe.

Climate Change Violates Human Rights

Publication Series on Ecology 6: While the nations of the North have been polluting the atmosphere, the effects of climate change are mainly felt among the poorest levels of society in the nations of the South. These peoples are faced with the destruction of their living space, and their already tenuous rights to water, food, housing, and education are further threatened by climate change.

Annual Report 2008

We are living in extraordinary times! Human-induced climate change is taking place at an unprecedented scale, and the world is caught up in a financial and economic crisis of historic proportions. We can overcome these crises only by undertaking major, joint international efforts.

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Plastic Atlas

Agriculture Atlas 2019

The Ocean Atlas

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Publication Series

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All Issues of Perspectives Latin America (Spanish)

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All Issues of Perspectives Southeastern Europe

All Issues of Perspectives Middle East & North Africa

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Heimatkunde is the migration policy portal of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

Go to the GWI

The Gunda Werner Institute at the Heinrich Böll Foundation (GWI) pools gender policy and feminist topics.

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We declare our full solidarity with Ukraine. We stand by the side of our Ukrainian partners and colleagues and, at the same time, by the side of our partners in Russian civil society who are beset by harsh repression.

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Events

Sovereign Debt, the Climate Challenge, and Geoeconomics: Pathways for a Sustainable Global Response

Between Repression and Hope: Hungary’s Civil Society and the Struggle for Democracy Ahead of the 2026 Election

Berlin Belarus Future Forum 2025 – For a democratic Belarus in Europe

Between Open Arms and Closed Borders

The desire for being many

Reporting the Far Right

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Regions

Human Rights Against Populism: A Progressive Response to the Politics of Duterte and Mahathir

EU’s Role in speeding up energy transition in the Western Balkans and Ukraine

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