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In brief
Climate protection
Marcel G. Seyppel

Emissions trading at the crossroads

The Clean Development Mechanism’s uncertain future

Global trends
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Fewer conflicts involving child soldiers

Fewer conflicts involving child soldiers

Food security
Sarah Schmitz

Coalition of the caring

How IFPRI wants to fight food-price inflation

Poverty reduction
Ellen Thalman

Promoting progress

Expert commission assess the main ingredients of growth-inducive policies

Aid effectiveness
Eleonore von Bothmer

Risky investments

Why aid is about risky investments

Abuse of power
Eleonore von Bothmer

Between help and submission

The disaster of Burmese disaster relief

Afghanistan
Claudia Isabel Rittel

Donors criticised

International NGOs lambast donors’ performance in Afghanistan

News
Eleonore von Bothmer

Germany second most-important donor country

Germany second most important donor according to OECD

Religion and development
Charlotte Schmitz

Imams and women’s rights campaigners

GTZ organises debates of Muslim spiritual leaders and women’s rights organisations

IMF
Ellen Thalman

Reform at last

IMF finally reformed

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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.

Better protection for schools in northern Nigeria
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

Sustainability

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

Better protection for schools in northern Nigeria
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