Poverty Reduction

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

HIV/AIDS still haunts South Africa

HIV/AIDS is still haunting South Africa, though it stopped making international headlines about two decades ago. The situation is better than it was, but there is still room for improvement.

Role models

Creative and committed

Young women in the Arab world pick strong and creative women as role models

Schools

“Once you learn to read”

Zambia shows that schools are a good place to start fighting gender inequality

Blog

Why cross-border social protection would be useful

Argentina and Zimbabwe currently need a kind of international support that the multilateral system does not provide

Informal work

Better education and training

More education is crucial to create less informal and more formal work

Illicit labour

Criminal girls

Criminal gangs have similar gender dynamics in Bangladesh and China

European migration policy

Risks and side-effects

The EU should not cooperate with shady governments on migration policy – it should support civil-society projects instead

Resilience

More than just a slogan?

After suffering catastrophic destruction from cyclones, Mozambique needs more than a simple restoration of the status quo

Blog

Xi Jinping is weaker than many observers believe

Why I do not think that China proves authoritarianism to be effective

Our view

Failure is unaffordable

If humanity fails to fund the SDG agenda appropriately, all nations will suffer and none will be great

Vocational schools

Anything is possible

Vocational schools are an important aspect of education and training in Burundi