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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.

Multilateral affairs
Erik Solheim

“Tax holidays are counter-productive”

DAC Chair Solheim says it makes sense to use aid to improve tax revenues in developing countries

Sexual minorities
Rebecca Renz

Look through “LGBT glasses”

German development agencies could do more in support of sexual minorities

The German Chamber Network
Winfried Borowczak
Friedrich Kaufmann

Linking business and development policy

New Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Mozambique wants to engage private-sector companies for development goals

In brief

News of the week

Relevant news – 11 April to 17 April

Great-ape tourism
Magdalena Braum

The closer they get, the bigger the risk

Tens of thousands of people travel to Africa every year to see gorillas and chimps in the wild

Renewable energies
Hans-Christoph Neidlein

The global transition

Germany is leading the way to transition to renewable energy supply

Poverty
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Many metrics

There are a lot of new approaches to measure poverty, wellbeing and development

In Brief

News of the week

Relevant news – 4 April to 10 April

Identity politics
Theresa Krinninger

Dangerous polarisation

The humanitarian crisis in eastern Ukraine challenges civil society

Development finance
Theresa Krinninger

Raise the bar

Civil-society organisations blame international financial institutions for neglecting human rights abuses

Poverty Reduction

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

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
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

Gender Equality

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

The literary power of Black women writers
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

Governance

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

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
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”

Sustainability

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

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
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”