Die Studie "Landrechte und landwirtschaftliche Großinvestitionen in Äthiopien" behandelt die Spannung zwischen Landrechten und langfristig angelegten landwirtschaftlichen Investitionen. Sie prüft das Recht auf Land, das aus dem Recht auf natürliche Ressourcen, auf angemessene Nahrung und die...

Around 300 million indigenous peoples have been identified across 70 countries, 14 million of them are located in the Philippines with their cultural zones taking up as much as 44 percent of the country's land area. There has been much confusion regarding their identity and rights, resulting to...

In less than a decade, foreign investors have erected more than 3,200 wind turbines across the Isthmus of Techuantepec investing billions of dollars and generating more than 90 per cent of Mexico's wind energy. The isthmus is also home to more than one thousand indigenous communities whose...

Minorities' claims for rights increasingly clash with majorities who wish to retain and defend "national" cultural and religious traditions. Debates around minarets in Switzerland, burqas in France, Saint Nicolas' companion "Black Pete" in the Netherlands, and about freedom of speech versus...