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    Top trio for human rights
    A signal for equality: since the start of 2024, all three regional human rights courts have been led by women.
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    ‘Inspiring women’
    The three women presidents of the human rights courts in Africa, Europe and the Americas in an akzente interview.
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  • Interamerikanischer Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte
    A driving force behind ‘green’ case law
    We visit the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Human Rights Institute in San José, where human rights, nature and the environment are viewed in a new light.
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  • Martin Hansen
    ‘An amazing change’
    Indonesia is one of the most stable countries in Asia. GIZ Country Director Martin Hansen explains the reasons for this stability and why the company continues to operate there.
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  • Omar Alkadamani
    Learning progress
    Omar Alkadamani fled to Germany from Syria as a child. He knows exactly how important the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4 ‘Quality education’ is – for him personally and for every country that strives for a better future.
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  • Housing for refugees
    ‘A historical chance to build a powerful region’
    Lviv, revisited: In 2020, akzente spoke with its mayor Andriy Sadovyj for the first time. Since the Russian invasion, his world is a different one.
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  • Aida Al Khattab
    Revisiting strong women in Jordan
    Five years ago, akzente interviewed women elected to Jordan’s regional councils. Now we’re back in Jordan to visit them again.
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  • AU Fellowship
    African perspectives
    Information is a powerful tool in democratic opinion forming. The African Union Media Fellowship enhances the capacity of African journalists to tell stories for and about their continent.
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  • Fair, smart and current
    Fair, smart and current
    All over the world, women face disadvantages. Feminist development policy aims to address the causes of this inequality.
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