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Middle East
Anna Marquardt
Aharon Weiß

Water wise girls

Raising water awareness in a Jordanian School

Interview
Mana Neyestani

“Two sorts of red lines”

Exiled Iranian cartoonist reaches out to public on the web

Hotels
Elke Zimmermann

Slow death

Water prices, the Dead Sea and Jordan’s lush hotel oases

Gender
Martina Sabra

Enforcing pro-women law reform

Women’s rights legislation needs to be enforced in Arab world

Democracy
Claudia Isabel Rittel

New start in Iraq

Democracy: New start in Iraq

Comment
Bettina Marx

The peace process ends

Peace process for Palestine comes to an end

Rehabilitation centre
Sumaya Farhat-Naser

Tough times for the disabled

Hurdles disabled persons must overcome in Palestine

Armed forces
Canan Topçu

Self-appointed guardians of secularism

Turkey's military as self-appointed guardians of secularism

Comment
Canan Topçu

Between a rock and a hard place

Kemalist pressure on Turkey's reformer Erdogan

UN budget
Tillmann Elliesen

Anti-corruption inquiry to continue

UN budget: Anti-corruption inquiry to continue

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Poverty Reduction

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

Burundi’s struggling tourism: Parks and reserves under threat
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

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
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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