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Sustainability

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

Pamela Cruz
Pamela Cruz

Mexico must include its indigenous population in the tourism sector

Mexico owes many of its tourist attractions to its wealth of indigenous communities. It is important that they are included in the country’s tourism industry in a sustainable, respectful and empowering way.

Land ownership
Lea Diehl

Casting light on land deals

Land Matrix Initiative makes data available to global public

Land ownership
Lea Diehl

Fighting for livelihoods

Land grabbing affects those people worst who need land most desperately

International cooperation
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Take agencies by their word

An international think tank wants aid recipients to be more assertive in relations with donor agencies

Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Setting a legal precedent concerning climate responsibilty

Lawsuit aigainst German energy company

Terre des hommes
Bernd Overwien

Global collective

Terre des hommes involves its partner organisations from developing countries in its strategic planning

Comment
Gesine Ames

Close to blowing up

In view of growing tensions in the DR Congo, European and African leaders must act fast to prevent turmoil

Global Governance
Christian R. Proaño

A paradigm change at the IMF?

IMF economomists worry about growing inequality

Global warming
Leena Srivastava
Arun Kansal

Generating scientific knowledge

The IPCC’s indispensable contributions to climate debate

Global warming
Leena Srivastava
Arun Kansal

The need to ratchet

To prevent catastrophic climate change, the pledges of the Paris Agreement must be scaled up

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Shadows and light in global affairs

The world as it is today

Poverty Reduction

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

What Zanzibar's spices have to do with gender equality
Fundamental human right under attack
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”

Gender Equality

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

What Zanzibar's spices have to do with gender equality
The fate of a Rwandan man with disability
Fundamental human right under attack
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography
Modern dowry payment in Kenya

Governance

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

“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”
Why Kenya is on fire
Building bridges to reconcile religious conflicts

Sustainability

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

“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”
Why Kenya is on fire
Building bridges to reconcile religious conflicts