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Zivilgesellschaft
Global civil society
Theresa Krinninger

Better partnership

International civil-society umbrella organisation demands better partnerships

Promoting change
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Go shopping with open eyes

Support for fairtrade fashion in Germany

D+C/E+Z
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Faster – but just as enduring

D+C/E+Z has reinvented itself, and the new cross-media approach suits the internet age

Loans

Challenges ahead

The aspiration of TYM, Vietnam's leading microfinance institution, is to become a full-blown bank

Peacebuilding
Patricia Galicia

Breaking the silence

How raped women in Guatemala found the courage to talk about their fate

Bangladesh
Marianne Scholte

No “basket case”

Bangladesh is a development success, not a basket case

Interview
Muhsin Hendricks

“One cannot shed one’s sexual identity”

South African Imam says Islam does not oppose different sexual orientations

Interview
Marianne Beisheim

“Don’t keep reinventing the wheel”

It is essential to learn from experience with multi-stakeholder partnerships

Ebola epidemic
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

“Greatest peacetime challenge”

Ebola likely to be „greatest peacetime challenge“ that the UN has ever faced

Public participation
Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar

Listen to civil society

CIVICUS complains that some intergovernmental organisations are not serious about involving civil-society organisations in policy-making

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Poverty Reduction

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

Fundamental human right under attack
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”
Mexico must include its indigenous population in the tourism sector

Gender Equality

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

Fundamental human right under attack
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography
Modern dowry payment in Kenya
Mexico’s first female president
Women-led businesses suffer most

Governance

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

“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”
Why Kenya is on fire
Building bridges to reconcile religious conflicts

Sustainability

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

“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”
Why Kenya is on fire
Building bridges to reconcile religious conflicts