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Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit

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Arbeit
Rabindranath Tagore
Aditi Roy Ghatak
Aditi Roy Ghatak

Poet, polymath, preceptor

Rabindranath’s lasting impact on Bengali society

Handicrafts
Aditi Roy Ghatak
Aditi Roy Ghatak

Kantha’s eternal beauty

Why traditional Bengali embroidery is now making a difference in many village women’s lives

Rule of law
Christiane Rudolph

Facilitating investments

The rule of law is essential for generating employment and fostering prosperity

Mobility
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

A contribution to sustainable transport

In the Indian city of Nagpur, a new light-rail system is being built with support from the KfW Development Bank

Law
Maxwell Suuk

Sharing property after divorce

Ghana is slowly changing the rules of how to share assets after a divorce

Kenya
Brenda Mbaja Lubang'a

Sex for fish

Poverty and desperation lead women in fishing communities in Kenya to trade sex for goods

International organisations

A reform agenda for the ILO

The tripartite setting of the ILO was useful in the past, but it does not represent the world of work adequately today

Global governance
Raymond Saner

Labour is not a commodity

The ILO was established to promote social justice 100 years ago – and that mission stays relevant

Development Investment Fund
Christoph Kannengießer

Linking policies on development and trade

Private-sector involvement is vital for Africa’s world-market integration

Global warming
Lea Diehl
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

IPCC special report and Climate Change Conference

IPCC special report published ahead of the UN climate change conference in Poland in December

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Poverty Reduction

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

Junk food in school
Mexico is facing an epidemic of obesity and overweight
How to end hunger
Why food security needs both peacebuilding and livelihood development
Eco-friendly agriculture must reduce farmers’ costs

Gender Equality

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

Justice for victims of rape
How can we infer the colour of a person’s skin?
How GIZ gets young people moving
Why sport is an effective tool for development
Addressing gender-based violence in Colombia

Governance

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

Junk food in school
Promoting media literacy to fight misinformation
Mexico is facing an epidemic of obesity and overweight
The sudden fall of Bangladesh’s autocratic prime minister
The dubious practices of digital money lenders

Sustainability

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

Junk food in school
Promoting media literacy to fight misinformation
Mexico is facing an epidemic of obesity and overweight
The sudden fall of Bangladesh’s autocratic prime minister
The dubious practices of digital money lenders