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Poverty Reduction

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

Mexico must include its indigenous population in the tourism sector

Mexico owes many of its tourist attractions to its wealth of indigenous communities. It is important that they are included in the country’s tourism industry in a sustainable, respectful and empowering way.

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

Special needs

Dysfunctional support system

India's state-run system for providing educational opportunities to persons with disabilities is deeply flawed