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From Cairo to Berlin: Architectures of Homophobia

Published: 1 December 2021

What does a police raid on a bathhouse in Cairo have in common with a police raid on a queer rave in Berlin? Through an examination of two case studies of homophobic violence in Cairo and Berlin, separated by temporal and spatial dimensions, the architecture of homophobia employed by state and media is revealed.

Perspectives 1/2016: Rights and Resources

Published: 10 February 2020

With this edition of Perspectives, the Heinrich Böll Foundation explores some of the approaches and instruments that communities and their NGO partners have developed to create room for community-centred stakeholder participation, and to champion community interests and rights.

Afghanistan: Environment and Ressource Policy

Published: 20 March 2018

The following article on opportunities and challenges in the mining sector in Afghanistan illustrates the situation in the country at large.

'Public coffers are empty. This makes it all the more important to mobilise private capital for nature conservation.'

Published: 21 August 2017

Do market-based instruments actually bring in that much money for nature conservation?

Towards a democratic and globally just resource policy

Published: 22 May 2017

Germany depends on the import of metallic, mineral and fossil fuel resources. The extraction of these raw materials takes place at the expense of the environment and leads to human rights violations. The German Federal Government has to take these consequences adequately into account.

The Real Price of Coal in the Wartime Donbas: a Human Rights Perspective

Published: 5 April 2017

This publication shows that the price of coal extraction in Donbas is not only its high production cost, but also a number of political and environmental consequences paid for by the people in Donbas and the entire population of Ukraine.

Afghanistan: Fights for transparency in resource depletion

Published: 8 June 2016

Responsible Democracy: The richness of Afghanistan in natural resources has great potential for conflict. Since 2012, the Heinrich Böll Foundation therefore moved deliberately in this politically sensitive terrain.

Nature: A contaminated future

Published: 18 November 2015

Open-cast mining destroys the landscape of both the pit and the surrounding area. Efforts to restore these areas often fail and the surface above the underground mines sinks. A chapter from the Coal Atlas.

Common Sense on Conflict Minerals

Published: 9 December 2014

Natural resources should be a major contributor to development in some of the countries that need it most. And yet, in some of world’s poorest and most fragile states, they bring just the opposite.

Mining in Afghanistan

Published: 6 November 2013

Afghanistan is abundantly rich in natural resources. Although the country is facing a lot of problems, mining could have the potential to be a driver of poverty reduction and economic growth.

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