Between Norms and Implementation

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Between Norms and Implementation

18.09.2025

Marzia Genovese

Introduction: Framing the Debate Colombia’s Decree 488/2025 has prompted a renewed debate about the role of administrative instruments in realising indigenous territorial autonomy and implementing constitutional pluralism. In their recent...

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Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

What’s in a Name? Genocide, the Universal and the Common in International Law

17.09.2025

Isabel Feichtner Anna Sophia Tiedeke Khaled El Mahmoud Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni

The following text was prompted by a discontent with the way international lawyers in Germany have addressed the question of genocide in Gaza, if they have done so at all....

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Legal Pluralism in Practice?

22.07.2025

Sebastian Machado Ramírez Paolo Amorosa

On 5 May 2025, the President of Colombia issued Decree 488 establishing ‘regulations concerning the functioning of Indigenous territories and their coordination with other territorial entities’. A post by Marzia...

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Precaution as Obligation?

01.05.2025

Juan Auz

On March 14, 2025, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) made public a landmark ruling holding Ecuador internationally responsible for the violation of various rights of the Tagaeri and...

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Rights of Nature: Obstacles and Challenges

Rechte Ohne Rechtssubjektivität?

26.03.2025

René Kuppe

Die Rechte der Natur finden weltweit zunehmend Eingang in Gerichtsverfahren. So kommt es, dass am 15. März 2024 auch erstmals vor einem peruanischen Gericht die Rechte eines Flusses und die...

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Somewhere, Beyond the Sea

05.12.2024

Maximilian Beyer Maira Sophie Müller

On 3rd October 2024, the UK and Mauritius announced a historic agreement on the issue of the disputed Chagos Islands. Subject to a future treaty, the UK will hand over...

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DSI – What?!

01.11.2024

Catharina Caspari

The use of DSI (Digital Sequence Information) is one of the hot topics discussed at the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 16), taking place...

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Rising Before Sinking: The Landmark Decision of the UN Human Rights Committee in Daniel Billy et al. v. Australia

21.11.2022

Verena Kahl

In its groundbreaking views on Billy et al. v. Australia the UN Human Rights Committee found that Australia failed to adequately protect members of an indigenous community present in four...

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Pitting Wildlife Conservation Against Indigenous Rights

09.11.2022

Robin Ramsahye

On 30 September, the East African Court of Justice (EACJ) issued a judgment that has been met with indignation by indigenous activists. It ruled that the Tanzanian government’s decision to permanently clear an area...

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Adivasi Struggles in Chhattisgarh

India Trains Its Sights on Dissent in Chhattisgarh

28.10.2022

Allison West

Development in the form of profit-driven resource exploitation ventures in India’s central state of Chhattisgarh, led by corporations and facilitated by the state, have wreaked havoc on the lives and...

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Adivasi Struggles in Chhattisgarh

The State vs. Adivasis

27.10.2022

Nikita Agarwal

The Bastar region in southern Chhattisgarh has been the site of an ongoing armed conflict over the last decades. The armed struggle in the region arose due to the lack...

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Adivasi Struggles in Chhattisgarh

Punished for Seeking Justice

26.10.2022

Gautam Bhatia

In 2009, Himanshu Kumar, a social activist, filed a petition with the Supreme Court of India against the state of Chhattisgarh. The case concerned the massacre of 16 indigenous people...

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Adivasi Struggles in Chhattisgarh

Tigers over Tribal Rights

25.10.2022

Alev Erhan

Indigenous communities around the world who have relied on and considered themselves custodians of the land have long confronted existential challenges in the face of privatization, extraction, and development. Often...

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Adivasi Struggles in Chhattisgarh

Economic Growth or Adivasi Rights?

24.10.2022

Tara Roy

“We exist because the forest does, and the forest exists because we do.” - Member of the Gond Adivasi people in Hasdeo Aranya That the world is facing an...

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Adivasi Struggles in Chhattisgarh

Landgrabs, Institutional Violence and Shrinking Civic Space

24.10.2022

Alev Erhan Allison West Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni Meike Krakau

India is often referred to as the “world’s largest democracy,” yet minority protection has always been a field of fierce contestation in post-independence India. Adivasis (the indigenous peoples of India)...