Gender Equality

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While women pay a disproportionately heavy price in armed conflicts every day, they are still largely excluded from official peacebuilding processes

Awareness of sexualised violence in conflicts is mostly focused on its strategic aspects. However, it is also vital to address systemic discrimination and violence against women in peacetime

In Kenya, more and more women enjoy mountain climbing and hope to inspire the next generation of female mountaineers.

What purposes our Digital Monthly serves, and how it differs from the print issue

In Zanzibar, women have taken up the cultivation of climate-resilient sponges in the Indian Ocean

Kenya’s LGBTQ community has scored several significant victories in the courts, further cementing the legal grounds for the protection of queers

Secularisation is a growing trend in parts of Europe and North America. But it would be a mistake to think this means religion is becoming less relevant for German development cooperation

Marginalised communities especially benefit from good pre-school facilities, for example in India

After several brutal cases of femicide, many women in Algeria no longer want to put up with discrimination and violence