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D + C

Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit

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Sustainability

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

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Self-righteous aggressiveness versus universal values

Humankind’s religions share a common core of values, as the Swiss theologian Hans Küng prominently argued. He called it the “global ethic”.

United Nations
Eleonore von Bothmer

Urgent wake-up call

New report on global sustainability by UN High-Level Panel

Comment
Nfamara Jawneh

Gambia calls for help

West African drought: Gambia calls for help

Growth scepticism
Petra Pinzler

Happiness is a child with a popsicle

Happiness economics: growth has its limits

All politics is local
Anita Reddy

“Shared goals”

Twinning cities helps policymakers to rise to great challgenges

Print edition

Contents March issue

D+C/E+Z: Contents page of March's print edition with links to all contributions

Comment
Henning Melber

What if and what if not

Syria and the international community's responsibility to protect civilians from harm

Editorial
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Make it happen

The most urgent challenge is to get rural development started

Ecology
Melaku Worede

“Smallholders matter most”

The world community depends on African smallholders and their landraces

Human rights
Boro Baski
Boro Baski

Legally entitled to a full stomach

Indian government wants to enforce right to food with new legislation

Official development assistance
Henning Andresen

Less is more

Why less development aid might sometimes deliver more

Poverty Reduction

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

Brief history of ARV treatment in South Africa
HIV/AIDS still haunts South Africa
An Indian student expresses her concern about global heating
Biogas innovation: Clean energy and fertiliser for Malawi’s farmers
Why we believe in our Digital Monthly

Gender Equality

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

NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Improving female entrepreneurs’ self-esteem
Why you might find our newsletter useful
Kenyan military ordered to end HIV discrimination in recruitment
A cookbook reveals the connection of diet and tradition

Governance

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

Self-righteous aggressiveness versus universal values
Brief history of ARV treatment in South Africa
HIV/AIDS still haunts South Africa
NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy

Sustainability

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

Self-righteous aggressiveness versus universal values
Brief history of ARV treatment in South Africa
HIV/AIDS still haunts South Africa
NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy