Karina Theurer

Karina Theurer is a human rights lawyer specializing in Gender, Transitional Justice and Decolonial Legal Critique. She teaches human rights enforcement at the Humboldt University in Berlin, and advises the law firm Dr. Weder, Kauta & Hoveka in the legal proceedings against the German-Namibian Joint Declaration.

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Germany Has to Grant Reparations for Colonial Crimes

On 24 April 2023, several United Nations Special Rapporteurs started publishing their joint communication with the German government (AL DEU 1/2023) and the Namibian government (AL NAM 1/2023), on violations...

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Litigating Reparations

Throughout the world, indigenous populations are in a renewed push, demanding reparations from former colonial powers. On 19 January 2023, the Namibian lawyer Patrick Kauta filed an application to the...

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Colonial Repercussions in Germany and Namibia

Racist repercussions and transgenerational exclusion

The German and Namibian governments seem to be about to finalize their negotiations on (the costs of) reconciliation. Several civil society actors and Ovaherero and Nama representatives criticize the procedure...