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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.

Elections
Phillip Kusch

Compulsory, but meaningful event

Upsides and downsides of Mali’s local-government elections in 2009

The arts
Stefan Rennicke

Stimulating societal development

The Art in Africa Foundation, a joint venture of UNESCO and Goethe Institut

Climate change
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

More urgent, more difficult

Copenhagen climate conference

Research
Claudia Isabel Rittel

Work is not everything

Researches focus on decent work

War crimes
Claudia Isabel Rittel

The string-pullers

Germany-based masterminds of Congolese war crimes

Biodiversity
Èric Belvaux
Linda Ghanimé
Mathieu Régnier

Mainstreaming starts at home

Biodiversity is a cross-cutting challenge for development agencies

Comment
Balakrishnan Rajagopal

Guantánamo failure

Four crucial contradictions in Obama’s Guantanamo policy

Private sector
Heike Bürskens
Denise Engel
Dorothe Nett

African opportunities in gobal crises

InWEnt alumni assess African opportunities in global crises

Germany’s Federal Government
Dirk Niebel

“A core issue, not a side issue”

Germany’s new development minister discusses policy in an interview

The arts
Peter Musa

Becoming active

The merits of cultural entrepreneurship in Africa

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.

How to challenge a corrupt system
Gukurahundi: Zimbabwe’s lingering genocide wounds
Lessons of failure
The exception of dengue
Overshadowed by the “Big Three”

Sustainability

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

How to challenge a corrupt system
Gukurahundi: Zimbabwe’s lingering genocide wounds
Lessons of failure
The exception of dengue
Overshadowed by the “Big Three”