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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.

Natural disaster
Raphael Mweninguwe

Floods as part of life

Severe floods in Malawi are threatening agricultural crops

European policy
Dirk Messner

“We must take seriously our own promises”

How the EU could boost its global influence

Participation in public life
Seth Oteng
Susanne Giese

“Voice is fine – but needs to be heard”

Ghanaian youth organisation increases its reach

In brief

News of the week

Relevant news – 14 February to 20 February

Development assistance
Sipho Moyo

EU scores high

2015 will shape the future of the world’s development

Trade and urbanisation
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Growing transport threatens climate

Carbon emissions from international freight will quadruple by 2050, warns OECD Transport Outlook 2015

European policy
Theresa Krinninger

Unfinished business

The EU needs to follow up on the good intentions expressed at the EU-Africa Summit in 2014

European Union
Svea Koch
Mark Furness

Challenged by complexity

Why the EU is an ODA giant but cannot translate financial leverage into real political influence

In brief

News of the week

Relevant news – 6 February to 13 February

Relevant reading
Niels Keijzer
Christine Hackenesch

Moving targets

Why the EU should reform the way it runs development affairs

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”