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Sustainability

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

Pamela Cruz
Pamela Cruz

Mexico must include its indigenous population in the tourism sector

Mexico owes many of its tourist attractions to its wealth of indigenous communities. It is important that they are included in the country’s tourism industry in a sustainable, respectful and empowering way.

Microfinance
Abdirahim S. Gure

Women’s economic empowerment

Why women’s small-scale businesses make a huge difference in war-torn Somalia

Cooperatives
Gerrit Wiesmann

Motors of prosperity

Cooperatives are underrated drivers of progress

Ecosystems
Lea Dünow
Christian Pirzer
Anja Schelchen

Protecting the environment

How people in Brazil can contribute to preventing natural catastrophes by protecting the environment

Leather

“Stricter than in Germany”

Uwe Hutzler: Setting sustainability standards in the tanning industry in Asia and the USA

Crimes against humanity
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

At least and at last

Justice after 40 years: leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime in Camodia have been sentenced for crimes against humanity

United Nations

Proposed goals for global sustainability

UN working group comes up with list of 17 Goals and more than 120 indicators

Editorial
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

The real challenge

Development is neither about overcoming capitalism nor setting free market forces

Development funding
Niels Keijzer

Counting aid

Why ODA reform is needed, and why it is so difficult

Malnutrition
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Strategies against hidden hunger

Welthungerhilfe and terre des hommes consider food fortification to be useful but insufficient to fight malnutrition

Pamoja Dance Group
Isabella Bauer

A sad tale about elephants

Nairobi’s Pamoja Dance Group stages an environmental and social drama to raise awareness of elephant poaching

Poverty Reduction

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

Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”
Mexico must include its indigenous population in the tourism sector
Rebounding tourism set to support Sri Lanka’s economic recovery

Gender Equality

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

Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography
Modern dowry payment in Kenya
Mexico’s first female president
Women-led businesses suffer most
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Governance

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

“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”
Why Kenya is on fire
Building bridges to reconcile religious conflicts

Sustainability

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

“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”
Why Kenya is on fire
Building bridges to reconcile religious conflicts