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Refugee crisis

The task for this decade

Coping with the refugee crisis is developmental challenge of the decade, according to German Minister Gerd Müller

Economics is just another social science

Economic models are less accurate than their precise maths suggest

Global Monitoring Report

Education for all not achieved

UN evaluates achievements and shortcomings of Education for All initiative

European Union

Sealing Europe off is no solution

Unless the EU respects human rights in the refugee crisis, its international credibility will be further eroded

Traveling in times of terror

Humanity cannot afford too much air traffic

Interview

“We are running out of time”

Many questions are still open after Paris climate agreement

Fragile states

New spaces of violence in ungoverned places

Scholars assess organised violence in different forms and places

Female Genital Mutilation

100 million women affected

Women in sub-Saharan Africa are especially affected by female genital mutilation

Primary schools

High on the agenda

The UN and the German government want more to happen in support of education

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Sustainability

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