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Solar energy even on cloudy days.

Good News

Solar energy despite clouds, and days off during menstruation

The two pieces of good news this month are about harnessing solar energy even on cloudy days and additional two paid days off for female employees experiencing menstrual pain.

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On 7 June, protesters in Bristol pulled down the statue of slave trader Edward Colston and later threw it into the harbour.

Development discourse

Unsustainable western exceptionalism

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by Ndongo Samba Sylla
Ndongo Samba Sylla
Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru visiting Washington in 1949: US President Harry Truman declared “development” of “underdeveloped” countries to be the goal of foreign policy during the Cold War.

“Development”

False promises, questionable term

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by Aram Ziai
by Julia Schöneberg
Queen Elizabeth II and President Kwame Nkrumah depicted on a billboard in Accra in 1961 ahead of the monarch’s visit to the former colony Ghana, which was then considered to be an “underdeveloped” country.

International relations

From “underdevelopment” to the SDGs

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by Mahwish Gul
Mahwish Gul
UN peacekeepers in Cote d’Ivoire in 2012.

Global Governance

Self-perpetuating cycles of violence

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by Florian Gaisrucker
Young Afghan victims of war.

Our view

Belonging together

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by Hans Dembowski
China’s government promises to accelerate transition to renewables: worker in a coal mine in Inner Mongolia.

Infrastructure

Build back better

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by Katie Cashman
Mexico needs its care workers: Red Cross nurse grieving at the funeral of a colleague who died of Covid-19.

Nursing care and support

A new intergenerational compact

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by Almut Schnerring
by Sascha Verlan
In 2016, after around 50 years of civil war, Colombia’s then President Juan Manuel Santos signed a peace deal with the FARC rebels.

United Nations

New approach to conflict prevention

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Education matters: a high-school student doing homework in rural Burkina Faso.

UNDP

“Governance is fundamental”

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by Achim Steiner
by Hans Dembowski
Huts of Huaorani people in Ecuador.

REDD+

No panacea

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by Johannes Berliner
by Katja Dombrowski