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Sustainability

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

Susanne Neubert
Susanne Neubert

The problems with Glyphosate

Pesticides have often caused controversy because their detrimental side-effects were initially ignored and later intentionally played down. The most recent example is probably the herbicide Glyphosate/Roundup.

Democracy and human rights
Bettina von Dungen

Include the indigenous

Perus economy is growing, while ecological aspects are neglected. This affects especially indigenous people

Comment
Mathieu Régnier

Moving forward on biodiversity

CBD members agree Nagoya Protocol on access to genetical resources

Interview
Dirk Niebel

“Hunger can be halved by 2015”

German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development is about to formulate a follow-up strategy for the MDGs for the years until 2030

Comment
Jayati Ghosh

Clueless in Seoul

G20-leaders proved clueless in Seoul

Individual accountability
Helmut Reifeld

Emergency relief or a new beginning?

Development agencies must emphasise democracy, markets and individual responsibilty

Rapid appraisal
Agnes Abuom

Where we are

Rapid appraisal of Millennium Development Goals

Industrial competitiveness
Sachin Joshi

“Consider going local”

Indian companies innovate products poor people can afford

Congo
Cathrine Schweikardt

On the run

Displaced persons in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

World affairs
Jens Martens

Urgent issues

Jens Martens of the Global Policy Forum Europe wants new mulitlateral goals for policymakers

Editorial
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Market and state failure

All developing countries should be making generic drugs

Poverty Reduction

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

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

Gender Equality

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

The hard lot of old people
Women, climate and chocolate
Justice for victims of rape
How can we infer the colour of a person’s skin?
How GIZ gets young people moving

Governance

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

The desert alliance
How to challenge a corrupt system
Gukurahundi: Zimbabwe’s lingering genocide wounds
Lessons of failure
The exception of dengue

Sustainability

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

The desert alliance
How to challenge a corrupt system
Gukurahundi: Zimbabwe’s lingering genocide wounds
Lessons of failure
The exception of dengue