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Apr 17, 2024 | 
fairplanet.org | Ariene Susui |Frank Odenthal |Ellen Nemitz |Katarzyna Rybarczyk
Before the arrival of Europeans, more than three million indigenous people lived in the territory of current-day Brazil. However, by 2010, only approximately 817,000 remained, according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), mostly due to genocide at the hands of Europeans. The most recent data, however, shows a slight increase in this number to 1,652,876 indigenous people of more than 300 ethnicities, a sign of the resistance.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
fairplanet.org | Ariene Susui |Frank Odenthal |Ellen Nemitz |Katarzyna Rybarczyk
As there is no stretch of land that is not considered part of a country, every human being has a country of birth. Even Antarctica, the only continent not consistently inhabited by humans, is governed by twelve states. And yet, millions of people are not considered nationals of any country and have a status of statelessness.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
fairplanet.org | Ariene Susui |Frank Odenthal |Ellen Nemitz |Valkyria Rattmann
Zacarías Toussaint is a 26 year-old man born and raised in the Dominican Republic. He has never left the country, not even for tourism. Nevertheless, the country in which he grew up does not consider him one of its citizens. Born to Haitian parents, Toussaint is stateless, and so are his two older sisters. He claims that, in spite of that, treatment differs according to the migrants' social class.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
fairplanet.org | Ariene Susui |Frank Odenthal |Ellen Nemitz |Katarzyna Rybarczyk
For over a century, Kurds have been trying to fight for their rights and freedom. Sadly, their quest has been largely characterised by human rights abuses and marginalisation. Hindered by political persecution, their dream of independence has been gradually fading. The Kurds are a non-Arab ethnic group of between 25 and 35 million people and are one of the world’s largest populations without a state.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
fairplanet.org | Ariene Susui |Frank Odenthal |Ellen Nemitz |Valkyria Rattmann
What could citizenship look like in a truly humane and democratic world? How can we collaborate on some of the major issues facing humanity and our planet across borders? What would global elections look like? FairPlanet was joined by Colombe Cahen-Salvador and Andrea Venzon, the founders of Atlas, a global political party aiming to unite people beyond borders, on a special FairTalks episode.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
fairplanet.org | Ariene Susui |Frank Odenthal |Ellen Nemitz |Valkyria Rattmann
Nature operates in fluidity. Between the land and the sea, the coast blends into the ocean. A river does not separate two landscapes - it is a part of the whole. Borders, however, are man-made. They are imaginary constructs that serve practical purposes; but borders cannot contain us. We tend to think of human beings as naturally sedentary, remaining in one homeland or region. But human nature, like that of over 50 per cent of the world’s species, is linked to movement and migration.
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Dec 10, 2023 | 
fairplanet.org | Ellen Nemitz |Yair Oded |Frank Odenthal |Murat Suner
This is a true story. Text written by Jennifer GasparFounding Partner, Managing Director, Araminta Imagine - you live in a country under authoritarian rule. Every day is a struggle. You work as a human rights lawyer tirelessly defending citizens who have been arrested for exercising their fundamental rights. Then YOU are arresteD. Based on trumped up charges you are thrown into prison where you languished for more than a year. You became gravely ill in prison and were refused medical care.
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Oct 15, 2023 | 
fairplanet.org | Ellen Nemitz |Frank Odenthal |Murat Suner |Ama Lorenz
Covering a quarter of Brazil's landmass, the Cerrado is vital for its environmental services. While deforestation threats persist, community-based solutions offer hope for people and nature. 'The heart of Brazil.' This is how the Cerrado, the second largest biome in Brazil and Latin America, is dubbed by the Institute for Society, Population and Nature (ISPN, in the Portuguese acronym), dedicated to finding environmental solutions for the Cerrado.
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Apr 24, 2023 | 
fairplanet.org | Frank Odenthal
The fight against the climate crisis is also a fight for climate justice. A growing number of activists world wide point to the fact that preventing effective climate protection is therefore also a violation of human rights. A lawsuit has now been brought before the European Court of Human Rights by a group of elderly women from Switzerland, all of whom are of retirement age, demanding an independent judicial review of climate policy.
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Apr 12, 2023 | 
fairplanet.org | Frank Odenthal
The sixth IPCC report, which was released last month, makes abundantly clear that the world is rapidly moving towards a total climate collapse, and that it is still feasible to cap global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius. The prerequisite, however, is immediate and decisive action to limit emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that trap heat in the atmosphere.
