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Poverty Reduction

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

Imran Mukhtar
Imran Mukhtar

Pakistan’s rural infrastructure is inadequate

Pakistan’s rural infrastructure is inadequate. That was true in 1947, when the country became independent, and in far too many areas, it is still true today. Rural communities generally lack good public services and have too few economic opportunities. Climate...

Indoor air pollution
Katharina Michaelowa
Katharina Michaelowa
Martina Zahno

Clearing the air

Indoor air pollution from cooking with biomass continues to increase the vulnerability of India’s poor to respiratory diseases and Covid-19

Africa
Karim Okanla

Environmental destruction

Poverty is an important driver of deforestation in sub-Saharan countries

Farms
Derrick Silimina
Derrick Silimina

Irrigation helps to cope with climate change

Irrigation is helping many of Zambia’s rain-dependent small-hold farmers to survive

Rising infection numbers
Mahwish Gul
Mahwish Gul

Gloomy outlook

Kenya is struggling to cope with the Covid-19 challenges

Civil society
Sumeya Issa

Books for rural children in need

An NGO provides disadvantaged children in Malawi with text books for homeschooling in times of Corona

Marginalisation
Gildaneliz Barrientos

Small wellspring of hope

A non-profit organisation tries to bring hope into the lives of underprivileged children in Guatemala

International trade
Evita Schmieg

Embedding social standards

What the Coronavirus crisis teaches us about trade policy towards developing countries

Environment
Derrick Silimina
Derrick Silimina

Financing the fight against climate change

Facing twin plagues of floods and droughts, Zambia lacks resources to fight the effects of climate change

Water treatment
M. A. Jabbar
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

“Each drop of water matters”

DBL Group, a Bangladeshi garments producer, recycles its industrial water

Elections
Mireille Kanyange
Mireille Kanyange

Protected by God

Burundi has held elections – without much consideration of the corona pandemic

Poverty Reduction

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

Pakistan’s rural infrastructure is inadequate
The Global NARS Consortium’s revolutionary approach to food security
Lessons to be learnt from Nepal’s recent excessive rains
A cookbook reveals the connection of diet and tradition
Sex for fish: the exploitation of female fish traders in Malawi

Gender Equality

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

Kenyan military ordered to end HIV discrimination in recruitment
A cookbook reveals the connection of diet and tradition
A story is always part of the currents of its time
Sex for fish: the exploitation of female fish traders in Malawi
Breaking gender stereotypes: female bus driver in Rwanda

Governance

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

Plutocrats expect Trump to serve their interests
AI innovations by Malawian students: Tackling health and agricultural challenges
The long shadow of German colonialism
Why many East Germans think they are only second-class citizens
Tuberculosis in Mozambique

Sustainability

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

Plutocrats expect Trump to serve their interests
AI innovations by Malawian students: Tackling health and agricultural challenges
The long shadow of German colonialism
Why many East Germans think they are only second-class citizens
Tuberculosis in Mozambique