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Development and cooperation

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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...

Ebola epidemic
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

“Greatest peacetime challenge”

Ebola likely to be „greatest peacetime challenge“ that the UN has ever faced

Rule of law
Martina Sabra

Legal challenges

Promising, but incomplete: Tunisia’s legal provisions for achieving democracy and reconciliation

Editorial
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Irresponsible power politics

The dangerous underlying message of Scotland’s independence referendum

Ebola epidemic
Joanne Liu

“Run into the burning building”

Doctors without Borders: Ebola epidemic in west Africa requires international action

Civil-society organisation
Vétérinaires Sans Frontières

Depending on livestock

The mission of Vétérinaires Sans Frontières Germany

Letters

Public responses

D+C/E+Z Feedback from our readers

Microfinance
Abdirahim S. Gure

Women’s economic empowerment

Why women’s small-scale businesses make a huge difference in war-torn Somalia

Cooperatives
Gerrit Wiesmann

Motors of prosperity

Cooperatives are underrated drivers of progress

Ecosystems
Lea Dünow
Christian Pirzer
Anja Schelchen

Protecting the environment

How people in Brazil can contribute to preventing natural catastrophes by protecting the environment

Leather

“Stricter than in Germany”

Uwe Hutzler: Setting sustainability standards in the tanning industry in Asia and the USA

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
Why you might find our newsletter useful
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