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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.

Governance
Rüdiger Korff

Listen to everyone

Urban planning all too often fails because it is based on illusions

Bus Rapid Transit
Nicholas Hollmann

TransMilenio – a model for success

Rapid transport buses carry 2 million people a day across Bogotá

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Experts want aid recipients to take aid agencies at word

An innovative guide to aid agencies

Bus Rapid Transit
Nicholas Hollmann

Most affordable

Rapid transit buses beat all other mass transport systems – especially on price

Urban traffic
Olamide Udoma-Ejorh

Making traffic flow again

De-congesting the Lagos agglomeration

Megacity
Olamide Udoma-Ejorh

Better governance, better urban life

Why the reputation of Lagos is improving

weltwärts volunteers
Carlos Collio
Miriam Keller

“I never dreamed it would get this good”

Leader of school for children with disabilities in Chile discusses his work with German weltwärts volunteer

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Neglect of duty in developing countries

According to WTO rules, patents must not block poor countries’ pharma access

Foreign trade
Clara Brandi
Dominique Bruhn

Exports as drivers of growth

Relevant reading: exports contribute to driving growth – but they need to be the right sort of exports

Beauty
Damilola Oyedele

Embracing blackness

Many African women stop using relaxers on their hair

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