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Agroecology: Our Roots of Change

Agroecology is increasingly recognized as a powerful response to today’s interlinked crises - environmental degradation, climate change, and deepening social inequalities. This dossier explores how agroecology redefines food systems and promotes people’s agency.

Rare earth mining in Hpyi Di Village near Mai Ja Yang town, Kachin State, Myanmar

Fractured Authority and Resource Politics in Myanmar: New Report on Rare Earth Mining

Study

The mining of rare earths is not just about international raw materials policy, as a new study from Myanmar shows. It is also about environmental justice, local governance and the future of the civil war-torn country.

By Shanan Foundation

Map: Kosovo marked with colored dots showing massacre sites and number of civilians killed.

"Go to Clinton!" A Kosovar historian reconstructs the massacres of the Kosovo War

Comment

Michael Martens reviews Shkëlzen Gashi's book on 83 massacres during the Kosovo War, documenting crimes by Serbian forces and reprisals. The author's merit is to provide new information about the victims, the perpetrators and the search for justice.

Events

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July

Authoritarian Pressures in the South Caucasus: Can Democratic Practices Prevail?

Panel discussion Wednesday, 09. July 2025 in Berlin

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Regions

A Demonstration for freedom of press in Rome, Italy. In the foreground a sign saying "Right to Knowledge, Duty to Inform, Defense of the Right to Criticize Both Political and Economic Power"

Silencing Voices in Italy: The Erosion of Media Freedom

Report

Italy's media is in crisis, battling legal onslaughts and facing a surge of censorship one year after the establishment of the far-right government led by Giorgia Meloni.

By Sielke Kelner

Eine Baustelle mit mehreren im Bau befindlichen Wohngebäuden. Im Vordergrund ein braches Feld, im Hintergrund ein Baukran.

Women don’t feel safe in earthquake housing in Diyarbakır outskirts

Background

Interview with Hamide Ayaz, whose house collapsed in the conflicts in Sur, Sociologist Mihriban İlbaş, and Selma Aslan, Co-Chair of the Diyarbakır Branch of the Chamber of Architects, about the earthquake houses undertaken by TOKİ and their impact on women's lives.

By Evrim Deniz

All Regions

In his book, author Vedran Horvat takes a personal journey through the last two decades of politics in the Western Balkans and sheds light on the potential of green politics under extremely difficult conditions.

By Vedran Horvat

Limiting environmental damage, human rights abuses and Indigenous Peoples’ rights violations

Guidelines

These guidelines address the great concerns with the overall aims of the EU Critical Raw Materials Regulation (CRMR) of driving greater extraction of primary raw materials and increasing harm to nature and people.

Democratic Corrosion at the Heart of Europe

E-Paper

The Covid-19 pandemic crystalized the myriad challenges facing the modern world like few crises before it. Its impacts were so far reaching, its insights so diverse, that even the metaphors created to understand it spun off their own field of study.

By Samuel Denney

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Recent Articles & Specials

Agroecology: Our Roots of Change

Fractured Authority and Resource Politics in Myanmar: New Report on Rare Earth Mining

"Go to Clinton!" A Kosovar historian reconstructs the massacres of the Kosovo War

Events

Authoritarian Pressures in the South Caucasus: Can Democratic Practices Prevail?

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Silencing Voices in Italy: The Erosion of Media Freedom

Women don’t feel safe in earthquake housing in Diyarbakır outskirts

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Limiting environmental damage, human rights abuses and Indigenous Peoples’ rights violations

Democratic Corrosion at the Heart of Europe

Plastic Atlas

Agriculture Atlas 2019

The Ocean Atlas

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#StandWithUkraine

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Recent Articles & Specials

Agroecology: Our Roots of Change

Fractured Authority and Resource Politics in Myanmar: New Report on Rare Earth Mining

"Go to Clinton!" A Kosovar historian reconstructs the massacres of the Kosovo War

Events

Authoritarian Pressures in the South Caucasus: Can Democratic Practices Prevail?

Our Work Worldwide

Regions

Silencing Voices in Italy: The Erosion of Media Freedom

Women don’t feel safe in earthquake housing in Diyarbakır outskirts

Publications

Here, at last

Limiting environmental damage, human rights abuses and Indigenous Peoples’ rights violations

Democratic Corrosion at the Heart of Europe

Plastic Atlas

Agriculture Atlas 2019

The Ocean Atlas

Publication Series

Stay tuned!

#StandWithUkraine

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