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 ...

It is spring 2026. Leaving Damascus, two Syrian Food Sovereignty activists and me, pass by the blossoming flower fields. On the way to Daraa, it becomes obvious that this is an agricultural area: ...

Applications are accepted twice a year. The application deadlines are March 1 and September 1. The scholarship department of the Heinrich Böll Foundation grants scholarships to graduates, and doctoral ...

Latin America and the Caribbean stand at a crossroads of escalating debt, intensifying climate shocks, and stalled progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals. A new policy brief by Ulrich Volz, ...

“Feminism in Pictures” is the result of a collaboration with seven incredible feminist illustrators from Brazil, Iran, India, Georgia, Pakistan, Turkiye, and Kenya for the Global Feminist Pitch 2023.

A view from the outside: How does the world view the EU?

The Plastic Atlas has the hard facts, data and figures to prove that the story of plastic that industry is telling us is a myth. We need urgent and drastic reductions in plastic production and ...

At the UN Climate Change Conference 2023 in Dubai (COP28), Vietnam’s Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh presented a 200-page implementation plan for the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP). The ...

Immer wieder beschwören homophobe Politiker, gleichgeschlechtliche Partnerschaften seien „unafrikanisch“. Dabei widerspricht gerade dieses Mantra allem, was die afrikanische Geschichte und Tradition ...

Migration from Africa will not only occupy European politics in the future; it is already shaping politics in Africa today and is an important factor for economic development. Migration partnerships ...

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. Accounted for within legal ...

The ‘Global South’ and ‘Global North’ diverge in how they view and relate to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Differences in means, risks and perceptions explain the gap but do not have to be an ...