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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.

UNICEF
Dagmar Wolf
Dagmar Wolf

Schools save uprooted children

UNICEF demands more funding to educate and protect children and youth who are affected by crises around the world

Social inclusion
Diana Mitlin

Knowledge is power

Community-based data collection helps the residents of informal settlements to fight for their interests

Editorial
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Ambition is needed

Further urbanisation will happen, but it must be done in a smart way

Scholarship
D+C / E+Z

Taking stock of global change

Call for papers – EADI NORDIC conference on development matters in August 2017

Relevant reading
Franziska Schreiber

Remaking cities

Relevant reading on reinventing urbanisation

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Sealing off the EU makes it harder to promote human rights

European leaders want foreign countries to make refugees stay

Global environment
Dirk Messner
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

“Normative compass”

The dramatic global impact of urbanisation is being underestimated, warns WBGU

Habitat III
Franz-B. Marré
Maria-Theres Haase

Urbanisation as opportunity

Sustainable mobility is a prerequisite for inclusive urban growth

Regional integration
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Far from united

National interests and EU crisis threaten regional integration in Africa

weltwärts volunteers
Francis Aidoo
Leon Wilken
Lois Fontaine

“Our vision is to empower the youth”

Leader of Ghanaian skills-training centre discusses his work with German weltwärts volunteers

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.

Waithood – endless adolescence
“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

Sustainability

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

Waithood – endless adolescence
“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