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The ILO demands better job opportunities for women: hairdresser training in Togo.

Labour market

Disadvantaged women

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by Linda Engel
In Manshiet Nasr, Egypt, an NGO that employs women produces patchwork plaids and other textiles from old clothes.

Social entrepreneurship

A balancing act

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by Bettina Meier
Babylon Garments in Dhaka employs fire safety officer who wear yellow jackets.

Labour relations

One law for all

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by Franziska Korn
Supermarket entrance in Dhaka.

Structural change

The retail revolution

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by Tilman Altenburg
Women in Saudi Arabia have few professional options: a journalist in Riyadh.

Saudi Arabia

Breaking up ossified structures

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by Nassir Djafari
Fishermen in the Philippines receive government loans for climate-change adaptation projects.

Green Climate Fund

Signalling effect for global climate finance

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by Liane Schalatek
Flooding in Houston: will decentralised action suffice where national governments deny climate change?

Relevant reading

Great disenchantment

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by Hans-Jochen Luhmann
Worker harvesting palm fruit.

Labour rights

Unachievable targets

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by Edith Koesoemawiria
“If humankind keeps using concrete, steel and aluminium at the current rate to build cities, we will be unable to keep global warming below two degrees”: construction site in Kolkata.

Infrastructure

“We need to build shock resilience”

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by Dirk Messner
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