Development and
Cooperation

All monthly issues

Central Asia, Caucasia, Southeast Europe and Russia

Uzbekistan’s face is changing: In the mountainous Zaamin area, the longest suspension pedestrian bridge in Central Asia was built.

Sustainable Development Goals

How Uzbekistan has achieved rapid SDG progress

by
by Shahida Tulaganova
Antonia Konarska is currently working as a volunteer in the cafeteria of a retirement home.

Migration to Germany

“Every day I had to force myself to take small steps”

by
by Antonia Konarska
The Baghdasaryan family was forced to flee their home in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2023. They now live in Yeghegnadsor, in southern Armenia.

Displaced by conflict

“I wanted to die in Nagorno-Karabakh”

by
by André Uzulis
Instead of going to school, young women are forced by the Taliban to stay at home.

Afghanistan

Where women are absent

by
by Hila Limar
This mobile hut with a solar roof is part of a campsite – a community idea from an FPA project in Armenia.

Ownership

Implementing community ideas in the southern Caucasus

by
by Nand Kishor Agrawal
by Steffen Schuelein
A woman who has pitched her idea via an FPA process receives an award in Songlhuh village, Nagaland, India.

Community participation

Building ownership through community-driven project management

by
by Nand Kishor Agrawal
by Steffen Schuelein
Cotton harvest in Uzbekistan on the border with Turkmenistan.

Forced labour

Improving working conditions in Uzbekistan’s cotton industry

by
by Shahida Tulaganova
Kamola Alieva, lawyer and women’s rights activist.

Women's rights activists

“The criminalisation of domestic violence was a milestone”

by
by Kamola Alieva
On International Women’s Day 2019, Afghan artists painted this graffiti on the wall of the Ministry of Women’s Affairs, which was dissolved by the Taliban in 2021. The premises are now home to the “Ministry of Praying and Instructing, Promoting Virtue, and Preventing Vice”, which oversees the implementation of Islamic law.

Women in Afghanistan

“Even that red line no longer exists”

by
by Selmin Çalışkan
by Eva-Maria Verfürth
Subscribe to Central Asia, Caucasia, Southeast Europe and Russia