Paul Feyerabend Award nomination for Dang Dinh Bach in Vietnamese language

Paul Feyerabend Award nomination for Dang Dinh Bach in Vietnamese language

Download the article in vietnamese language.Read more

Excerpts from ‘Letter to Gaza’ by Mazin Qumsiyeh, 23.10.23

Excerpts from ‘Letter to Gaza’ by Mazin Qumsiyeh, 23.10.23

Dear fellow Palestinians

[…] We can’t imagine the terror faced by all 2.4 million of you.  […] We are all so ashamed and feel we let you down. We worked hard to get the world community to listen. Some of … Read more

Celebrating Hernán Rodas - Master of Design in Latin America for 2023

Celebrating Hernán Rodas – Master of Design in Latin America for 2023

The first laureate of the Paul K. Feyerabend Foundation and the one who possibly remains today most emblematic of its spirit of community solidarity is Padre Hernán Rodas Martinez, of Ecuador. Hernán’s experience, characteristics and capacities are truly exceptional… … Read more

Kanan's ambitious challenge in Yucatan, Mexico: how to deal with internal conflicts in uninformed and polarised communities?

Kanan’s ambitious challenge in Yucatan, Mexico: how to deal with internal conflicts in uninformed and polarised communities?

Kanan Derechos Humanos (in short Kanan) is a non-governmental organisation based in the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. It is founded and run by young human rights defenders as a response to the vortex of threats to territory and communities on … Read more

Steps towards an Africa Forum for Development-Induced Displacements

Steps towards an Africa Forum for Development-Induced Displacements

Efforts to form an Africa Forum for Development-Induced Displacements (AfDiD) are being pursued by the Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights (MIHR).  A steering committee comprising members from Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique, and Tanzania has been created and has drafted a … Read more

Prof. Sir Andy Haines - member of the Board of the Feyerabend Foundation - awarded the 2022 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement

Prof. Sir Andy Haines – member of the Board of the Feyerabend Foundation – awarded the 2022 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement

Sir Andy Haines, one of the longest serving members of the Board of the Paul K. Feyerabend Foundation, was awarded early in 2022 the Tyler Prize— often referred to as the ‘Nobel for the Environment’.  The award, which recognises … Read more

The Birifor language is alive and well in Burkina Faso!

The Birifor language is alive and well in Burkina Faso!

Fifteen years ago, the Feyerabend Foundation supported a small initiative to promote the Birifor language as a key means of identity and solidarity among the Birifor people in Burkina Faso.  At that time the language seemed to be spoken by … Read more

The Ogiek of Mt Elgon (Kenya) - recipients of one of our small grants in 2013 - win a landmark judgement after a 20-year struggle to secure their ancestral land rights

The Ogiek of Mt Elgon (Kenya) – recipients of one of our small grants in 2013 – win a landmark judgement after a 20-year struggle to secure their ancestral land rights

At the end of September 2022, we hear from our grantee Forest Peoples Programme that the Ogiek of Mount Elgon (Kenya) have just won their land right case in the relevant High Court! They filed a case in 2008 against … Read more

The Nicaragua Government closes more organizations defending indigenous and afro-descendant peoples in an attempt to silence their struggle for lands and lives

The Nicaragua Government closes more organizations defending indigenous and afro-descendant peoples in an attempt to silence their struggle for lands and lives

In March 2022 the government of President Daniel Ortega has revoked the legal status of 29 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), including two organizations founded by Indigenous and Afrodescendant Nicaraguans to defend their peoples’ autonomy and rights. This added to more than … Read more

Dr. Dario Novellino, 2013 laureate of the Paul K. Feyerabend Award, is honored with the 2021 Elinor Ostrom Award for Practitioners

Dr. Dario Novellino, 2013 laureate of the Paul K. Feyerabend Award, is honored with the 2021 Elinor Ostrom Award for Practitioners

It is a great pleasure to announce the 2013 laureate of the  Paul K. Feyerabend Award– Dr. Dario Novellino – has just been honored  with the 2021 Elinor Ostrom Award in the Practitioner category.  The ceremony has been diffused online … Read more

next page >>