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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.

Amazon
Claudia Isabel Rittel

Brazil’s Supreme Court rules in favour of indigenous people

Brazil’s Supreme Court strengthens the rights of indigenous people

Arms trade
Jonas Wollenhaupt

New EU laws for exporting arms

German churches want EU guidelines on arms exports enforced fast

Relevant reading
Niels Keijzer
Gwénaëlle Corre

Rome was not built in one day

Relevant reading on evaluation approaches

Evaluation
Susanne Neubert
Susanne Neubert
Rita Walraf

Dubious precision

Well considered mix of methods leads to goo evaluation results

Civil society
Miriam Schröder
Melanie Müller

Chinese paths to climate protection

Climate protection matters ever more to Chinese NGOs

Climate Change
Burkhard Margraf

Right to international support

Climate change: Madagascar has a right to international support

Evaluation
Jörg Faust

Reliable evidence of impact

Development agencies need more solid knowledge of the effect of their work

Debate
Jürgen Kaiser

“Decisions should not be made in Paris and Washington”

Global financial crisis will compound problems related to high sovereign debt

Intercultural exchange
Roland Mangold

“Intelligent systems”

In support of living systems’ ability to learn

Editorial
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Sensible utopia

Coping with climate damage

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
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Gender Equality

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

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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?

Governance

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

Gukurahundi: Zimbabwe’s lingering genocide wounds
Lessons of failure
The exception of dengue
Overshadowed by the “Big Three”
Why we believe in our Digital Monthly

Sustainability

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

Gukurahundi: Zimbabwe’s lingering genocide wounds
Lessons of failure
The exception of dengue
Overshadowed by the “Big Three”
Why we believe in our Digital Monthly