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Sustainability

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

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.

Editorial

Slow progress

After decades of campaigning, women still deserve to be protected and pomoted in working life

PEGNet

Stimulating exchange

The Poverty Reduction, Equity and Growth Network and its annual conferences

Relevant reading

Equality pays

Relevant reading: why it pays to promote equal opportunities for both sexes

Millennium Development Goals

Saving women’s lives

Tough labour conditions for Central Asia’s female health workers

Women’s rights

Double-edged reform

Extending maternity leave in Kenya was a double-edged reform

Class divides

Wealthy maids

Some domestic helpers in Brazil make good money

Central and North America

In search of opportunities

Many women from Guatemala hope they’ll find a better future abroad

Environment

UNEP report on scarce resources

Humankind is consuming resources too fast, warns UNEP

Gender

“Broaden women’s  choices”

Asian women deserve broader choices

Renewable Energy

African wind farms

Decentralised wind farms for Africa