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150 years of Germany’s abortion ban ‒ when will the “green tide” wash over to the other side of the Atlantic?

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The “marea verde” – the “green tide” – has spread across the whole of Latin America. Can it make waves in Germany too?

Khvay Samnang, Preah Kunlong, 2016-2017, digital c-print, 80 x 120 cm. Courtesy the artist

“Quiet” Civic Engagement in Contemporary Visual Art from Cambodia

While political and social avenues for free speech are limited and prohibited, Cambodian visual artists find limitless forms of creative expression to critically examine many complex urban, social and environmental concerns.

By Vuth Lyno

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The “Big Bad Fix” provides a comprehensive overview of the key actors, technologies and fora relevant in the geoengineering discourse. It opposes geoengineering as a technofix for climate change and as a threat to world peace, democracy and human rights.

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Using Data and Technology to Solve Social, Environmental and Political Problems

This essay adopts broader conceptual analysis on technology deployment for social change. It looks at how data-driven technologies are currently deployed to solve problems. And makes a case for why we cannot leave the challenges posed by data-driven technologies to technologists.

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Smoke and Fumes

Oil industry actors had early knowledge of climate risks and important opportunities to act on those risks, but repeatedly failed to do so. Those failures give raise to potential legal responsibilities under an array of legal theories.

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Plastic Atlas

Agriculture Atlas 2019

The Ocean Atlas

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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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