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Summer special
Valerie Viban
Linda Engel

“I can share so much information about Africa”

26 years old Valerie Viban from Cameroon is doing his volunteer service at the Partnership with Africa Foundation in Potsdam

Maternal mortality
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

More efforts needed

Hundreds of thousands of women are still dying during pregnancy or childbirth

Summer special
Subhadra Kaul

Working and understanding integration in Cologne

Subhadra Kaul from India is 24 years old and has been volunteering in a refugee shelter in Cologne

Summer special
Lebogang Mokoena
Linda Engel

"You need to find your feet in a new community"

Lebogang Mokoena, a 25-year-old journalist from South Africa, has been volunteering in Berlin in a nursery school based on Waldorf/Steiner education

Women’s rights
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

International pressure for reform

El Salvador parliament debates change to the abortion law

Urban development
Sun Narin

Once there was a lake

Land conflicts in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh

Eminent scholar
Korinna Horta

Marked by displacement

Michael Cernea – a leading public intellectual from the World Bank

IDPs
Paul Kawegah

Growing fears in Kinamba

Nine years after the post-election violence, Kenyan IDPs are still living in provisional settings

Ethnic tensions
Paul Kawegah

Roots of violence

In Kenya, ethnic tensions are intertwined with long-standing disputes over land

Non-violent action
Armando Mussa Sani
Jasmina Barckhausen

Their grandparents’ legacy

Three examples of how peace activists use non-violent means to settle land conflicts in Guinea Bissau

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Poverty Reduction

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

Mexican community fund drives post-pandemic recovery
International degrees, national development
Why farms should opt for multiple benefit strategies
How GDP statistics are misleading
Growth, green growth or degrowth?

Gender Equality

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

Why men are needed in feminist activism
Overview culture special
Why you might find our newsletter useful
Uganda faces rising challenges in combating gender-based violence
Human rights for all

Governance

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

European democracies under attack from North America
What G7 should do in response to sovereign debt crises
Multilateral action on sovereign debt must speed up
Mexican community fund drives post-pandemic recovery
International degrees, national development

Sustainability

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

European democracies under attack from North America
What G7 should do in response to sovereign debt crises
Multilateral action on sovereign debt must speed up
Mexican community fund drives post-pandemic recovery
International degrees, national development