Displacement and migration

Final stop - desert

Migration in the Sahel: As the EU exerts pressure, more and more people are left stranded in Agadez, Niger.

Global health

WHO under construction

75 years after its foundation, the World Health Organization (WHO) seems to be in need of reform in many places. What steps need to be taken?

medico international

For 50 years medico international has been promoting the human right to health. Together with our partners in Africa, Asia and Latin America we are striving to achieve living situations that allow the best possible level of health.

In 1997 medico and other members of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Palestine

Denied commemoration

The ban on demonstrations commemorating the Nakba in Berlin is primarily intended to protect Germany's image of Israel, but it damages democracy. Read more

Climate justice

No reconstruction

Flood-resistant construction will not help any more in Pakistan. A look back at prevention attempts Read more

Ukraine

Against powerlessness

Foreword to the book "Dieser Krieg endet nicht in der Ukraine” (This War Will Not End in Ukraine) by Raúl Sánchez Cedillo. Read more

Event Series

Decolonizing Aid

Planetary Solidarity beyond Aid. Critical perspectives on development and aid. Online event series – November 2022 - March 2023 Read more

Refugees and Migration

Accountability in the Sahara

The investigative agency Border Forensics on the conditions that have led to mass death and disappearance of migrants traveling cross-Saharan routes through Agadez. Read more

Loss and damage

Save yourself. Can you?

Onlinetalk with partners and activists from Pakistan, Nigeria, Egypt and Germany about climate crisis and perspectives that still remain. Recorded on 17.11.2022 Read more

Rojava

No temporary solution

For ten years now, the Rojava project has been under attack, defended and further developed. A travelogue. Read more

Chile after the plebiscite

Invincible neoliberalism

The social movements and leftist government have suffered a crushing defeat in the face of an anti-political attitude rejecting their direction and capitalising on fears and anxieties. Read more

Obituary

„Small is beautiful, but big is necessary“

Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury (1941 - 2023) has died. By Dr. Andreas Wulf. Read more

Turkey

Election campaign amidst ruins

Political negligence cost countless lives and plunged millions into homelessness. Now President Erdoğan is politicking at their expense. Read more

Central America

Contagious authoritarianism

Claudia Paz y Paz has brought high-ranking military officers in Guatemala to justice for human rights violations. How does she see the future of democracy in the region? Read more

Refugees and Migration

Create a place of freedom

At the launch of the project "Maldusa" on the island of Lampedusa and in Sicily, we spoke with the team about its importance in the fight for freedom of movement. Read more

Postcolonialism

Defending the right to one's own existence

A conversation with Nandiuasora Mazeingo of the "Ovaherero Genocide Foundation" on the survival of colonial conditions in Namibia, necessary reparations and a common future. Read more

Interview

What Heiner Müller already knew

A conversation with medico's new Managing Director Tsafrir Cohen about erroneous East-West dichotomies, lack of historical justice and professional optimism in hard times. Read more

Interview

Climate policy against the poor

A conversation with Kenyan activist David Otieno. Read more

North East Syria

Targeted Killing

A Turkish drone attack kills Zeyneb Sarokhan and Yilmaz Şero, both responsible for medico projects in northeastern Syria. By Anita Starosta. Read more