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Microfinance

Women’s economic empowerment

Why women’s small-scale businesses make a huge difference in war-torn Somalia

Ecosystems

Protecting the environment

How people in Brazil can contribute to preventing natural catastrophes by protecting the environment

Crimes against humanity

At least and at last

Justice after 40 years: leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime in Camodia have been sentenced for crimes against humanity

Disability

The case of Amdework Yitayal

Children with disabilities in Ethiopia must be lucky to get adequate support from non-governmental organisations

Education

Good intentions are not enough

In Ethiopia, to be disabled equals being poor

Development funding

Counting aid

Why ODA reform is needed, and why it is so difficult

Minorities

Stateless and without rights

Many ethnic minorities in Thailand are stateless and thereby without rights

Pamoja Dance Group

A sad tale about elephants

Nairobi’s Pamoja Dance Group stages an environmental and social drama to raise awareness of elephant poaching

Food security

Not the solution

Oxfam warns that huge private-public partnerships in agriculture may cause hunger

Refugees

A hard life in the desert

In Western Sahara, many people, including children, lose limbs because of landmines and cluster munition

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Sustainability

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