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More and more people worldwide gain access to safe drinking water.

Good News

Progress in drinking water supply and disease control

The two pieces of good news this month are about more people gaining access to safe drinking water and four countries being declared free of the neglected tropical disease trachoma.

by D+C / E+Z

05.12.2025

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Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, at the closing ceremony in Istanbul on 24 May.

United Nations

Mere exchange or real change?

by Priya Behrens-Shah

15.06.2016

It does not always turn out well: couples at a mass wedding in Jakarta in 2015.

Muslim society

Act of bravery

by Edith Koesoemawiria

14.06.2016

Ugandan women work on the fields, but they normally do not own the land: winnowing rice in Doho district.

Gender

Multiple loss

by Gloria Laker Aciro Adiiki

12.06.2016

Many Indonesians believe a woman cannot cope on her own.

Social life

Ida’s story

by Edith Koesoemawiria

09.06.2016

Volunteers

“It is good when walls come down”

by Eva-Maria Verfürth

07.06.2016

Wrong Austrian response to the refugee crisis

by Hans Dembowski

06.06.2016

Social media

Democracy needs more than hashtags

by Chief K. Masimba Biriwasha

06.06.2016

Ekaterina Koneva of Russia, the reigning world indoor triple jump champion, has been suspended for doping before. Now, the whole track and field team is excluded from international competitions.

International sports

Glow time

by Theresa Krinninger

05.06.2016

Transition of power

Tough times

by Dagmar Wolf

04.06.2016

Urban development

Learning from one another

by Regina Brück

by Hermann-Josef Ostlender

by Mona Plate

by Gabriele Schütz-Lembach

03.06.2016