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...

Research

Give youth a chance

PEGNet annual conference in Zambia discusses strategies to boost employment

Civil-society organisation

Depending on livestock

The mission of Vétérinaires Sans Frontières Germany

Letters

Public responses

D+C/E+Z Feedback from our readers

Cooperatives

Motors of prosperity

Cooperatives are underrated drivers of progress

Human Development Report 2014

Progress for everybody

Human Development Report considers ways to reduce poor people’s vulnerabilities

Leather

“Stricter than in Germany”

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

United Nations

Proposed goals for global sustainability

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

Editorial

The real challenge

Development is neither about overcoming capitalism nor setting free market forces

Civil war

Invisible victims

Exiled Syrians help fellow citizens in Jordan in private rehabilitation centres

Inclusion

Something is happening

Togo sees progress in the struggle for the rights of people with disabilities