Development and
Cooperation

E-Paper Archive

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...

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by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
Human rights

State authorities fail citizens

Pakistan violates rights of internally displaced people

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by Waqqas Mir
African academics

Looking for happiness abroad

Three Ugandans report on their experiences of living and working in Europe

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by Isabella Bauer
Garments production

Decent conditions and fair wages

Myanmar set to become next low-cost, exploitative and unstable garments production country

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by Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski
Employment

Digitalisation revolutionises work

Human Development Report 2015 calls for equitable and decent work for all

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by Hans-Christoph Neidlein
Labour rights

Minimum wage attracts girls to factories

Higher wages in Bangladesh’s garments sector mean better income but push girls into work as child seamstresses

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by Niaz Asadullah
by Zaki Wahhaj
Environmental damages

Rainstorm and floods

In Sierra Leone, deforestation is causing more and worse floods

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by Alie Yunus Kallay
Charity School

Education for all children

How a social entrepreneur is trying to improve the situation of disadvantaged school children in Lusaka

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by Frank Masanta Jr.
by Kenneth Muller
Township

Ng’ombe’s desperate health situation

The township Ng’ombe´s clinic lacks space, staff and up-to-date equipment

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by Frank Masanta Jr.
Migration

Fight human trafficking

NGOs call for better coordination of state and non-state efforts to stop human trafficking

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by Peter Strack

“Ebola free” does not mean Ebola is gone for good

New infections remain possible

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk