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Land grabbing
Michael Windfuhr

Shared responsibility

How to prevent land grabs

Refugee policy

“Grim problem”

Media judge the EU’s resolutions on refugees as insufficient

Relevant reading
Nina Eschke

Protecting and promoting minorities

Relevant reading: how to protect minorities

Disability and inclusion
Lara Reiser
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

“Blind people have little hope of finding a job”

As a weltwärts volunteer, the blind Lara Reiser is currently working at a school for blind and visually impaired children in Cameroon

The German Chamber Network
Winfried Borowczak
Friedrich Kaufmann

Linking business and development policy

New Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Mozambique wants to engage private-sector companies for development goals

Great-ape tourism
Magdalena Braum

The closer they get, the bigger the risk

Tens of thousands of people travel to Africa every year to see gorillas and chimps in the wild

Faith-based discrimination
Maryam S. Khan

Myth of the Muslim monolith

How a radical minority came to define Pakistan’s Muslim identity

Gender
Rosse Mary Camacho Justiniano

Violence results from patriarchal attitudes

In Latin America, Bolivia reports the most cases of violence against women

Civil strife
Conrad Schetter

“Bandits in uniform”

In view of ISAF withdrawal, violent conflicts are intensifying in Afghanistan

Ethnic minorities
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski
Johannes Kaltenbach

The world’s most persecuted people

Myanmar does not recognise Rohingya as citizens, as NGO expert elaborates in our interview

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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.

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
“Dialogue of life”

Sustainability

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

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
“Dialogue of life”