In 1996, these movements first came together in the Indian city of Kundapur and claimed the rights of working children to participate in global debates of child labor.

It was a pleasure to organize an exchange between the three movements of working children - discussing current challenges including climate change, global aid, poverty and the upcoming ILO Conference on the Elimination of of Child Labour to be held in February in Morocco.

💬 This weekend we held "30 Years after Kundapur: Reflections and Futures of Working Children's Movements and their Stance on Child Labor Regulation" together with Pronats e.V., Molacnats Secretaria Ejecutivo from Latin America, MAEJT Afrique and The Concerned for Working Children / Bihma Sangha.

📝 We have a new working paper out! You can read ”Towards an Agenda for Reparative Research“ here: refubium.fu-berlin.de/bitstream/ha...

The paper synthesizes the discussions of our workshop @interactfu.bsky.social last year. Thanks to all our participants for co-authoring!

US ohne AID? Der schnelle und umfassende Rückzug der USA aus der internationalen Zusammenarbeit hat weltweit bestürzte Reaktionen ausgelöst. Welche...

2025 löste die US-Regierung die Entwicklungshilfe-Agentur USAID auf und zog sich damit aus der internationalen Zusammenarbeit zurück. In einem »360 Grad« legen SWP-Autor:innen dar, welche Folgen dieser Rückzug hat. 👇
https://swp-berlin.pulse.ly/chpnq4ys8a

📢 Join us for the 3rd Center Colloquium!

Featured Talks:
Kristine Andra Avram (Center for Conflict Studies, Marburg University)
Nadine Benedix @nadibenedix.bsky.social (Political Sciences, Technical University of Darmstadt)

🗓️ Mon, 8 Dec 2025, 12–2 pm
More info: uni-marburg.de/0j1D6X

Glaubwürdigkeit verlangt Aufarbeitung SPD, Grüne und Union vollziehen eine vorsichtige Kehrtwende in der Israel-Politik. Glaubwürdig ist das nur, wenn sie jetzt Verantwortung für ihre Repression der Palästina-Solidarität übernehmen.

»Während die Bundestagsparteien sich öffentlichkeitswirksam im zaghaften Kurswechsel zur Gaza-Frage üben, läuft die Maschinerie der Repression weiter«, schreiben @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social‬, Sabine Broeck, Robin Jaspert und Ramis Örlü.

Gewalttätige Bilder Bilder aus Israel und Gaza werden zu Waffen im Kampf um Meinungen und Emotionen. Medien sollten versuchen, mit ihrer Berichterstattung nicht zum Teil dieses Kampfes zu werden.

Die Rede von der Kamera als Waffe ist so alt wie die Fotografie selbst. Über Dokumentation und visuelle Gewalt im Kontext des Kriegs im Gazastreifen schreibt Annette Vowinckel: www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2024...

Spoiler: Working children want more support in tackling climate change, terrorism and the organization needs lasting support from bigger donors!

We have a new (short) article out!
In November 2024, the African Movement of Working Children and Youth met in the halls of the African Union in Addis Ababa - Ina Gankam Tambo and I discuss the state of the movement and its current political claims.

ubp.uni-bamberg.de/zep/index.ph...

This is particularly important for norm scholars, as it allows them to account for agency within norm dynamics while simultaneously attending to the limiting effects of colonial, ageist, and capitalist power hierarchies.

I understand tactical and strategic practices in De Certeau's theory as interrelated; in this way, we can see how weaker actors appropriate ‘forces alien to them’ in their everyday lives. Through these appropriations, they construct narratives that form the basis of their political agency.

Using the concept of "everyday practices" by De Certeau, I argue that organized working children in Bolivia (re)create their subjectivity through everyday practices interacting with institutional, material, and social structures which in turn are embedded within broader narrative frameworks.

💫Already published a while ago, but I have written on the governed agency of organized Bolivian working children in the ERIS SI on decolonizing perspectives in norms research brill.com/view/journal...

Using the concept of "everyday practices" by De Certeau, I argue that organized working children in Bolivia (re)create their subjectivity through everyday practices interacting with institutional, material, and social structures which in turn are embedded within broader narrative frameworks.

🔥 ⚖️ 🌐HAPPENING NOW: Historic #ClimateJustice Ruling being delivered by the 🇺🇳 🧑‍⚖️ International Court of Justice.
🚨This ruling could signal a new dawn for climate law & accountability
📝 🧵 Live thread below with context, summary & analysis 👇
#ClimateJusticeAO #AOLetsGo

The End of the Age of NGOs? How civil society lost its post–Cold War power.

www.foreignaffairs.com/world/end-ag...
„In some cases, the pressure comes from right-wing parties, (..). Germany, the world’s second-largest donor(..) austerity drive led by the coalition government composed of progressive, green, and center-right parties in 2024.“

🔴 TODAY! 🟡 NEW WARNING:

• TO THE GAMBIA
• ON 10/06/25 FROM FRANKFURT AT 20:30

A new charter deportation to The #Gambia is planned on 10. June 2025. The departure is supposed to be at 20:30 from #Frankfurt am Main Airport.

#StopDeportation #EndDeportations #NoMoreCharterFlights

Accounts in which civilians particularly children and teens actually express themselves are too rare! New book by among others Manfred Liebel on Palestinian Youth experiences (in German but open access and with a lot of visual content ⬇️)

www.dampfboot-verlag.de/de/buecher/p...

This is an insane chart

Child Labour Policies in the Americas: Why Progress Has Become Uncertain Across the Americas, child labour policies vary. Business interest groups push for legalisation; working children’s organisations seek regulation to secure worker protections; the ILO calls for prohib...

#ChildLabour Policies in the Americas: Business interest groups push for legalisation; working children’s organisations seek regulation; the ILO calls for prohibition.
#GIGA's @johannapieper.bsky.social analyses this matter in the new #GIGAFocus.

➡️ Read here: www.giga-hamburg.de/en/publicati...

soon.

"Noch weiter links?" Die SPD hat sich mit ihrem Wahlprogramm 2025 sowohl sozio-kulturell als auch sozio-ökonomisch deutlich weiter rechts als vor vier Jahren positioniert.

Gutachten - Zur Definition von Antisemitismus - medico international Im Auftrag von medico international und der Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung hat Peter Ullrich ein wissenschaftliches Gutachten zur „Arbeitsdefinition Antisemitismus“ erarbeitet.

Weil die Diskussion über die #Antisemitismus-Definition der IHRA infolge des Linken-Parteitags gerade wiederbelebt wird, hier der Hinweis auf das mit der @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social beauftragte Gutachten von @textrecycling.bsky.social über die Problematik der Definition:

Leia Organa: A Critical Obituary Leia Organa, the politician and revolutionary who led the defeat of the Galactic Empire, died after a short illness. She was 60 years old. Hers was a life laced with controversy concerning everythi…

I post this every May 4th, but - Leia Organa: A Critical Obituary. mobunited.wordpress.com/2016/12/28/l...

We now have an issue "The Politics of Child and Youth Representation in Global Governance: Confronting International Institutions" tandfonline.com/toc/rglo20/2... . Look at novel contributions on #youth as governance tool, #children's exclusion from politics and #activism strategies 👇

We now have an issue "The Politics of Child and Youth Representation in Global Governance: Confronting International Institutions" tandfonline.com/toc/rglo20/2... . Look at novel contributions on #youth as governance tool, #children's exclusion from politics and #activism strategies 👇

The research group “Transnational Conflicts” is hosting a workshop on “reparative research” on February 27. Please get in touch (by February 9) if you’re interested in participating or presenting your work!

Please check out our new article (w Ajda Hedžet) in the upcoming Globalization SI on the politics of child and youth representation!