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Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

Ridwanul Hoque

The sudden fall of Bangladesh’s autocratic prime minister

Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh’s longest serving leader, resigned on 5 August. The step was inevitable after some 800 people including 70 children had died in the bloodiest protests since Bangladesh’s independence.

Contraceptives
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

A global public good

Individual choices and the common good: challenges of family planning

Repression
Astrid Lipinsky

Government control of fertility

China's demographics: one child, two partens, four grandparents

Human-rights violations
Helena-Ulrike Marambio

Forcibly sterilised

Peru's victims of forced sterilisation were mostly indigenous women

Men
Rita Schäfer

A controversial issue

South African views on male circumcision diverge - tradition and health matter

Outdated stereotypes
Dean Peacock Peacock

Engaging men

Why men's attitudes must change for women's lot to improve in South Africa

Gender relations
Nilanjana Ray

Aborted girls, trafficked women

Aborted girls, enslaved brides - a depressing Asian drama

Empowering women
Renate Bähr

Rights-based family planning

Everyone should be able to decide how many children to have - and when

Health
Patricia Galicia

The right to one’s body

Guatemalan girls and boys deserve better sexual education

Development cooperation
Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar

Fewer soldiers, more jobs

Beyond ISAF: German government announces cooperation plans for Afghanistan up to 2017

Urbanisation
Ellen Thalman

Slums and gated communities

Global community must rise to challenges of rapid urban growth

Poverty Reduction

The first UN Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

How to end hunger
Why food security needs both peacebuilding and livelihood development
Why you might find our newsletter useful
Eco-friendly agriculture must reduce farmers’ costs
How can we infer the colour of a person’s skin?

Gender Equality

In order to achieve gender equality, it is necessary to empower women and girls.

Justice for victims of rape
Why you might find our newsletter useful
How can we infer the colour of a person’s skin?
How GIZ gets young people moving
Why sport is an effective tool for development

Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

The sudden fall of Bangladesh’s autocratic prime minister
The dubious practices of digital money lenders
How development policy is misunderstood
Why you might find our newsletter useful
How GIZ gets young people moving

Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.

The sudden fall of Bangladesh’s autocratic prime minister
The dubious practices of digital money lenders
How development policy is misunderstood
Why you might find our newsletter useful
How GIZ gets young people moving