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In brief
Environmental sustainability
Merle Becker

Rural potential

How climate protection depends on smarter agriculture

PEGNet conference
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

African lions and Asian tigers

PEGNet conference: African lions and Asian tigers

Sustainable urbanisation
Merle Becker

600,000 jobs in China

UNEP chief says sustainability matters in view of rapid urbanisation

New security index
Peter Hauff

Somalia scores worst

New security index: Somalia scores worst

Minorities

Shocking murders of Tamil women

Sri Lanka: Shocking murders of Tamil women

Franco-German development aid
Peter Hauff

A first in South Sudan

France and Germany bundle their resources to support the water sector in South Sudan

Development and environment
Dagmar Wolf
Dagmar Wolf

African perspectives

Supporting environment-friendly development in Africa

Environment

UNEP report on scarce resources

Humankind is consuming resources too fast, warns UNEP

Renewable Energy
Joseph Miller

African wind farms

Decentralised wind farms for Africa

Crime
Joseph Miller

Borderless illegality

Global crime is a global challenge

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Poverty Reduction

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

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
What Zanzibar's spices have to do with gender equality
Fundamental human right under attack
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography

Gender Equality

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

The literary power of Black women writers
What Zanzibar's spices have to do with gender equality
The fate of a Rwandan man with disability
Fundamental human right under attack
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography

Governance

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

Preventing Boko Haram from recruiting young people
Evicting indigenous people
How a pedagogy of sustainability can help Africa’s future
Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
Waithood – endless adolescence

Sustainability

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

Preventing Boko Haram from recruiting young people
Evicting indigenous people
How a pedagogy of sustainability can help Africa’s future
Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
Waithood – endless adolescence