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Sustainability

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

Stella Tushabe

Breaking gender stereotypes: female bus driver in Rwanda

Marie Rosine Ntabomvura, a mother of three, in Kigali, defies gender stereotypes that prescribe roles and abilities based on gender. When she turns the wheel of the humongous 60-seater town-bound bus, nothing about her skill suggests that she is intimidated by...

Commodities
Anup Kumar Singh

Farmers' self-determination

Fairtrade is improving cotton farmers’ lot in Africa and India

Demographic trends
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Differentiated action

Study illuminates reasons for sustained high birth rates in Sub-Saharan Africa

Global civil society
Theresa Krinninger

Better partnership

International civil-society umbrella organisation demands better partnerships

Textile industry
Gisela Burckhardt

Price does not guarantee fairness

Working conditions for Bangladeshi seamstresses are often poor even when expensive branded garments are made

In brief

News of the week

Relevant news – 10 January to 16 January

Labour relations
Nazma Akter
Marianne Scholte

“Enforce the law”

Bangladeshi labour leader demands that laws be enforced

Promoting change
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Go shopping with open eyes

Support for fairtrade fashion in Germany

International financial institution
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Human and social beings

Better late than never – World Bank abandons “homo economicus”

Economic history
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Early industrialisation

Low-wage exploitation in garment production is made possible by rural poverty, among other things

D+C/E+Z
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Faster – but just as enduring

D+C/E+Z has reinvented itself, and the new cross-media approach suits the internet age

Poverty Reduction

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

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Lessons of failure
The problems with Glyphosate
Why pesticides are more a curse than a blessing
More financial support for college students

Gender Equality

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

Breaking gender stereotypes: female bus driver in Rwanda
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The hard lot of old people
Women, climate and chocolate
Justice for victims of rape

Governance

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

Don’t stop, do better
Risking collapse
Why you might find our newsletter useful
Drawing the right conclusions from data
The desert alliance

Sustainability

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

Don’t stop, do better
Risking collapse
Why you might find our newsletter useful
Drawing the right conclusions from data
The desert alliance