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Broadcasting
Linda Vierecke

Village voices

Why community radios matter so much to indigenous people in Bolivia

Loans

Challenges ahead

The aspiration of TYM, Vietnam's leading microfinance institution, is to become a full-blown bank

Media development
Alexander Matschke

Freedom of expression promotes democracy

Alexander Matschke: Promoting free media is a task for development policy

Journalists
Petra Tabeling

Staying safe and sane

Petra Tabeling: In crisis areas, journalists are at risk in physical and psychological terms.

Netizens
Mona Naggar
Mona Naggar

Blogging for change

Young bloggers discuss daily life under Israeli occupation in Palestine

Participation

Better qualified

Juan Ordoñez Caetano: Indigenous people in Bolivia learn radio skills in order to contribute to local radio programmes

Lifelong learning
Werner Eggert

Online follow-up

After face-to-face seminars have ended, development agencies should continue journalistic training online

Energy efficiency
Stephan Opitz

Quantum leap for ­climate protection

Energy-efficiency measures can contribute to covering the global energy demand

Peacebuilding
Patricia Galicia

Breaking the silence

How raped women in Guatemala found the courage to talk about their fate

Multilateral affairs
Jens Martens

Sharing global burdens

Rich nations want to modify the UN principle of common but differentiated responsibility

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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”