Bernard Duterme: “The environmental movement must be urgently decolonised”
“Large-scale polluters who refuse to make commitments to match their obligations are exacerbating the environmental crisis,” explains Bernard Duterme, sociologist and director of the Tricontinental Centre (CETRI), based in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
(Margot Duterme
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25 January 2021
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“Large-scale polluters who refuse to make commitments to match their obligations are exacerbating the environmental crisis,” explains Bernard Duterme, sociologist and director of the Tricontinental Centre (CETRI), based in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
(Margot Duterme
)
We may all be in the same boat, but not all of us have access to the lifeboats. This expression, borrowed from the Cameroonian economist Thierry Amougou in his contribution to the collective publication
Illicit financial flows hinder development in Africa – the UN must rise to the challenge of ending this
“Eliminating illicit financial flows is not impossible, as many think. First of all, we must all realise that they constitute a real violation of human rights,” says Jolie de Poukn, an activist with ATTAC-Africa. Photo taken in March 2020 near Khartoum Airport in Sudan.
(Mohammed Abdelmoneim Hashim Mohammed
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21 January 2021
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“Eliminating illicit financial flows is not impossible, as many think. First of all, we must all realise that they constitute a real violation of human rights,” says Jolie de Poukn, an activist with ATTAC-Africa. Photo taken in March 2020 near Khartoum Airport in Sudan.
Across the US, the pandemic has turned a generation of renters into activists
Demonstrators are arrested by police during a rent strike protest in New York City on 1 October 2020. The US could be on the verge of “the most severe housing crisis in its history” according to the Aspen Institute, with an estimated 30 to 40 million people at risk of eviction.
(Brian Branch Price/ZUMA Wire/Alamy Live News
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Demonstrators are arrested by police during a rent strike protest in New York City on 1 October 2020. The US could be on the verge of “the most severe housing crisis in its history” according to the Aspen Institute, with an estimated 30 to 40 million people at risk of eviction.
The young creative bringing India’s rural folk musicians to the world – via a backpack
Abhinav Agrawal (centre) sits with folk musicians as he sets up his mobile studio in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India.
(Anahad Foundation
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8 January 2021
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Abhinav Agrawal (centre) sits with folk musicians as he sets up his mobile studio in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India.
(Anahad Foundation
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In 2011 when Abhinav Agrawal was studying architecture in the central Indian city of Bhopal, every weekend he would catch a random train to visit a different part of the country. Getting off at both teeming cities and remote, rural villages he would set off to explore each region’s folk music, inspired by his love for the sheer diversity of styles, sounds and instruments, and his training as a classical vocalist and tabla player.
Truth as a path to reconciliation in Spain and Colombia
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In 2002, Eduardo Madina was the victim of an attack by the terrorist group ETA. A bomb hidden underneath his car resulted in long-term physical damage including the amputation of his left leg. Since then, the former deputy of the Spanish Socialist Worker’s Party (PSOE) has been one of the most outspoken voices for reconciliation. His commitment to truth as a path to peace now resonates more strongly than ever in an increasingly polarised world where concepts such as memory and forgiveness divide societies.
“I have always defended the need for coexistence, I believe in the reintegration of those who committed the crimes,” Madina tells