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Spicy world politics on the Island of Grenada

The small Caribbean island of Grenada is also called Spice Island. In the past, the French and the English fought over the island. Today, other powers are fighting to gain more influence on Grenada and thus in the world. By Karin Wenger

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The age of white saviours is over

Power inequalities are still a major problem in development cooperation. Change is under way where decolonization is seriously being promoted.

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Sri Lanka's "Emperor without clothes"

In mid-July, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled Sri Lanka like a hounded dog, but he returned at the beginning of September. For almost two decades, he and his brothers have determined the country's fate with an iron fist.

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The time is ripe for a change

Latin America has had enough of the inequality, injustice and corruption of right-wing governments that ignore the real needs of their people, writes Guatemalan journalist Mariela Castañón.

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An excess of neutralities

Corona, climate and conflict are now exacting their price: the UN observes that for 90 per cent of all countries, the "Human Development Index" will decline for 2020 or 2021. During the global financial crisis, just one in ten countries was affected.

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No clean slate for the West

The problem is not the United Nations, but the pursuit of self-interest by Member States. A case for values-based and human-centred multilateralism.

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Switzerland's contribution to saving the UN

The war in Ukraine has compounded a crisis of values that is bound up with the political instrumentalization of the UN. Neutral countries like Switzerland should strive harder for a better world, says El Hadji Gorgui Wade Ndoye.

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Chronicle of a death foretold (or perhaps not)

Does the brutal military attack on Ukraine signal the beginning of the end of globalization, as is being put about by many sources? An attempt to take stock.

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Afghanistan: we will not give up

The Taliban took power in Afghanistan last August. Life is dominated by hunger, cold and despair. But there is also resistance and faint hope, as recounted by an Afghan who lives in Kabul and works for an international non-governmental organisation.