Development and
Cooperation

Poverty reduction

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

Financing lives

The largest single donor worldwide has halted its development cooperation: funding for USAID has been frozen for 90 days and is currently under review. These actions by the US president are already costing human lives. The global community must save what it ca...

Global governance

Labour is not a commodity

The ILO was established to promote social justice 100 years ago – and that mission stays relevant

Time to put words into practice

Climate summit success will depend on political will to act upon scientific findings

Human trafficking

Deeply rooted slavery

Although slavery is illegal, it still exists in many countries – Mauritania for example

Health care

Epicenter of fake pharma

Because of poverty, bad governance and inadequate infrastructure, African pharma markets are dysfunctional

Multilateral bank

Vast role for governments

World Bank wants governments to do more to build human capital, generate taxes and provide social protection

Childhood

Education as key to overcome inequality

Social activist assesses the situation in Zambia concerning education and unequality

Lebanon

Fear of exclusion

Non-extreme poverty is a major problem in Lebanon, and state agencies do not help

PEGNet conference

Education for social advancement

Quality education for all helps to overcome social inequality

Our view

Why we need the SDGs

If market dynamics resulted in equal opportunities and broad-based prosperity, we would not need the SDGs

Development strategy

“People have created poverty”

Anthropologist reframes poverty the result of plundering by a few people in rich countries at poor countries’ expense