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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...

Crimes against humanity
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

At least and at last

Justice after 40 years: leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime in Camodia have been sentenced for crimes against humanity

United Nations

Proposed goals for global sustainability

UN working group comes up with list of 17 Goals and more than 120 indicators

Editorial
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

The real challenge

Development is neither about overcoming capitalism nor setting free market forces

Development funding
Niels Keijzer

Counting aid

Why ODA reform is needed, and why it is so difficult

Malnutrition
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Strategies against hidden hunger

Welthungerhilfe and terre des hommes consider food fortification to be useful but insufficient to fight malnutrition

Pamoja Dance Group
Isabella Bauer

A sad tale about elephants

Nairobi’s Pamoja Dance Group stages an environmental and social drama to raise awareness of elephant poaching

Food security
Marita Wiggerthale

Not the solution

Oxfam warns that huge private-public partnerships in agriculture may cause hunger

Globalisation
Monika Hellstern

WTO failure

Politicians need to see global trade, migration and climate change in context because of interdependencies

News

In brief

The Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety, the announcment of a New Development Bank and the recount of votes in Afghanistans' Presidental election

Relevant reading

Participation and equal opportunities

Relevant reading on equal opportunities for people with disabilities

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
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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