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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.

Peacekeeping
Andrea Herbst

Women to the front

UN Peacekeeping: women to the front

Justice
Claudia Isabel Rittel

Moreno-Ocampo investigating in Kenya

ICC’s Moreno-Ocampo investigates in Kenya

Good Governance
Katja Grunow

Rainforest protection by comptroller generals

Supreme auditors promote protection of Amazonian rainforest

EU neighbourhood
Michael Schwartzkopff

Conservation challenge

Conservation challenge

Hotels
Elke Zimmermann

Slow death

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

Angola
Johannes Beck

Troublesome legacy

Angola’s poverty persists as oil exports boom

Interview
Kishore Mahbubani

“An honest audit is overdue”

Kishore Mahbubani challenges aid agencies to rely more on Asian capacities

Global statistics
Angelika Wirtz

Careful data management

Disasters and the challenges of database management

Indeces
Emily Calaminus

Broadening the perspective

Pitfalls of using indicators to measure democracy

Poverty reduction
Uwe Singer
Markus Wauschkuhn

Goals that make a difference

Accurately assessing the MDGs and meaningful goals beyond

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