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Poverty Reduction

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

Michael Moyo

Brief history of ARV treatment in South Africa

In the 90s, South Africa became an epicenter of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. HIV is mostly a sexually transmitted disease. Intravenous drug users are at risk too, however, and so are people who need blood transfusions. HIV/AIDS initially spread fast among the...

Senior citizens
Jeffrey Moyo
Jeffrey Moyo

Pensioners fall on hard times

Zimbabwe’s elderly cannot access their pensions

Call for papers

Inequality – and how to deal with it

Annual PEGNet conference to focus on inequality in Zürich in September

SADC
Henning Melber

Nostalgia and empty promises

Populism is common in Southern Africa, where former liberation movements have become dominant political parties

Comment
Frank Masanta Jr.

Future at risk

Youth unemployment remains a key challenge in Zambia

Disabilities
Esther Dopheide

Inclusion counts

New CBM book proves that disability-inclusive development makes economic sense

Families
Raphael Mweninguwe

Unemployment destroys marriages

Many men leave Malawi to work abroad, leaving their wives alone

Refugees
Mona Naggar
Mona Naggar

Palestinians in Lebanon

Palestinians' difficult position in Lebanon

Editorial
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Unequal opportunities

Young people the next generation need good educations and must be well educated and provided withdecent jobs

Gender relations
Roli Mahajan

U-shaped curve

Young Indian women have great professional aspirations, but many dreams will not come true

Higher learning
Javier A. Cisterna Figueroa

“Education must not be for sale”

Chile’s poor youth suffer in the privatised education system

Poverty Reduction

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

Brief history of ARV treatment in South Africa
HIV/AIDS still haunts South Africa
An Indian student expresses her concern about global heating
Biogas innovation: Clean energy and fertiliser for Malawi’s farmers
Why we believe in our Digital Monthly

Gender Equality

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

NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Improving female entrepreneurs’ self-esteem
Why you might find our newsletter useful
Kenyan military ordered to end HIV discrimination in recruitment
A cookbook reveals the connection of diet and tradition

Governance

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

Self-righteous aggressiveness versus universal values
Brief history of ARV treatment in South Africa
HIV/AIDS still haunts South Africa
NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy

Sustainability

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

Self-righteous aggressiveness versus universal values
Brief history of ARV treatment in South Africa
HIV/AIDS still haunts South Africa
NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy