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Driver of development, neo-colonialism – or both?

With the Belt and Road Initiative, China is pushing global development in a manner unparalleled to date. But how sustainable are the “new silk roads”? Switzerland wants a piece of the cake and has signed a memorandum of understanding with China.

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Revealed: new evidence of China's mission to raze the mosques of Xinjiang

The People's Republic of the Disappeared

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Jade and the Generals

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Globale Handelswege / Ulrich Delius ... [et al.]

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Sprache : ein Menschenrecht : wie Indigene ihre bedrohten Sprachen verteidigen / Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker

China: Auf dem Weg zur totalen Kontrolle / Felix Lee ... [et al.]

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Political article

Driver of development, neo-colonialism – or both?

With the Belt and Road Initiative, China is pushing global development in a manner unparalleled to date. But how sustainable are the “new silk roads”? Switzerland wants a piece of the cake and has signed a memorandum of understanding with China.

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Moving beyond resistance

Human rights and democracy activists are not only targeted by the powerful in authoritarian countries. Time to develop new visions and strategies.

Guillaume Long; UN-Treaty Human Rights

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«Profit should not be an end in itself»

The 3rd Session of an Inter-Governmental Working Group convened in October in Geneva, chaired by Guillaume Long. It is charged with elaborating an international legally binding instrument on transnational corporations and human rights. An interview.

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