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Pressure builds on Burundian refugees in Tanzania amid threat of forced return

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Pressure builds on Burundian refugees in Tanzania amid threat of forced return

Editor’s take: Why nobody is talking about Ebola in Tanzania

L’accès à l’eau potable permet aussi de lutter contre le terrible ulcère de Buruli

Multimedia

Auf dem Trockenen - Einer Millionenstadt geht das Wasser aus

Web documentary

Faces of modern slavery – in pictures

Expanding Fortress Europe - the hidden story, the deadly costs

Referenz-Webseiten

Library

Doomed paradise : die letzten Penan im Regenwald von Borneo = the last Penan in the Borneo rainforest / Tomas Wüthrich ; mit Texten von Ian B. G. Mackenzie und Lukas Straumann

Guantanamo Kid : die wahre Geschichte des Mohammed el Gharani / Jérôme Tubiana, Alexandre Franc

Maghreb, Migration und Mittelmeer : die Flüchtlingsbewegung als Schicksalsfrage für Europa und Nordafrika / Beat Stauffer

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Political article

Listen to women in tackling the climate crisis!

The climate crisis and the struggle for women's rights have more in common than first meets the eye. Climate change is in fact compounding discrimination – also in the global South.

Political article

Tax flight kills mothers

Fiscal policy is a matter for a few – generally male – insiders divorced from reality. But it turns out, particularly from a gender equity standpoint, that tax policy entails negotiating the most elementary things in life.

Political article

"They said they were bringing development"

The Federal Council plans to work much more with private sector capital for development cooperation in the future. A closer look reveals enormous risks. The case study of a Swiss agricultural company in Ghana.

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