Misereor produces a range of publications on its focal topics each year. Here you will find these documents for your information and use.
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Publication
Brot für die Welt (Bread for the World) and Misereor welcome the development of a new…
Publication
Brot für die Welt (Bread for the World) and Misereor welcome the development of a new Africa strategy by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
Publication
This study aims at giving fresh impetus to the debate in a threefold manner: firstly, it…
Publication
This study aims at giving fresh impetus to the debate in a threefold manner: firstly, it provides an overview of the legal framework conditions with regard to PSS at the international level. Secondly, it analyses national legislation of countries (India, Brazil, Ecuador, Italy and Ethiopia) which have attempted to legally recognise peasant varieties or PSS. Thirdly, it presents two examples of countries (Mali and Uganda) where civil society actors advocate for the recognition of PSS.
Briefing paper
Since German diplomatic missions can make an important contribution to protecting…
Briefing paper
Since German diplomatic missions can make an important contribution to protecting space for civil society as well as HRDs, Brot für die Welt (Bread for the World), Konsortium ZFD (Civil Peace Service Consortium) and Misereor have commissioned a study on good practices in the cooperation between diplomatic missions and civil society.
Report
Compared to the years during the COVID-19 crisis, in some countries of the Global South the…
Report
Compared to the years during the COVID-19 crisis, in some countries of the Global South the debt situation has slightly eased. For most countries there, however, the debt situation remains tense. In 130 of the 152 countries surveyed in the Global South, the debt situation is at least slightly critical; in 24 of these countries, the situation is very critical. Overall, 55% of the countries surveyed are critically or very critically indebted – in contrast to only 37% before the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2024, countries in the Global South have to make more debt service payments to their external creditors than ever before. For 45 countries, more than 15% of government revenue flows into debt servicing.
Discussion paper
The present study gives an overview of approaches, concepts and examples. However,…
Discussion paper
The present study gives an overview of approaches, concepts and examples. However, since there are many approaches and concepts and even more practical experiences, the study cannot be complete but can only pick some prominent examples and serve as a starting point for the platform project. Participants of the platform project will add many more approaches, concepts and examples from their practical work to this initial collection and enrich it with their expertise, views and experiences.
From 1989 to 2001, Bougainville experienced a violent…
From 1989 to 2001, Bougainville experienced a violent conflict directly connected to the Panguna Mine. The Panguna Listening Project (PLP) is an initiative of the Catholic Diocese of Bougainville seeking to make the voices of the people heard in the Panguna mine affected areas.
Inspiring experiences of adaptation in urban areas of Latin America.
The following documents discuss different ways of supporting marginalised people with…
The following documents discuss different ways of supporting marginalised people with shaping their change processes in a self-determined manner. This document is the outcome of the ongoing learning process around ‘people-led development’ of Misereor, selected partner organisations and their partner communities in Asia. It looks more closely at the roles and responsibilities Misereor, the partner organisations and marginalised communities could play in transformation processes, and the ‘how’ of project-related, yet self-determined, change processes with people at the centre. It critically reflects on ‘project business’ and the crucial roles of change facilitators and their organisations that endeavour to ideally respond to the needs of donors without compromising the participatory and empowering potential of such processes.
Reading the electronic version of the text provides the reader with additional short texts examples, explanations and comments that are not included in the printable version.
Treasure chest or another Pandora's box? In focus: the Pacific. Published 2016.
Dirty Profits 6 report released by Facing Finance highlights the investments of ten…
Dirty Profits 6 report released by Facing Finance highlights the investments of ten European banks in ten transnational extractive companies like for example Glencore, Vale, Rio Tinto and others, variously which continually violate human rights and the environment. Violations cover contamination of land, water and air; silencing community activists using violence, threats and intimidation; labour violations and forced labour; and failure to provide the remedy communities deserve. The Dirty Profits 6 report shows that the ten selected European banks alone provided capital of over €100 billion to these 10 extractive companies between 2010 and 2017. Most banks, particularly those that made the most capital available, are not taking strong enough action to ensure that mining and extractive companies respect human rights and environmental concerns. The authors of the report expect banks to take responsibility for human rights and environmental concerns in their decision making, e.g. by improving transparency and making public all relevant information related to engagement and by taking a proactive approach to identifying non-compliant companies.
Violence wounds both the body and the soul. Stable peace and long-term development are…
Violence wounds both the body and the soul. Stable peace and long-term development are only possible when people are able to overcome their fear, their generalized mistrust, and their grief. This is where trauma work comes into play.
Misereor calls for a political U-turn during the German EU Council Presidency
