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Scholarship
Linda Kleemann
Kacana Sipangule
Pablo Selaya

Shades of green

PEGNet 2013: Why green growth policy can be bad for poor people and how to avoid harm

Namibia

Corrections

Namibian readers disagree with D+C/E+Z author Rigmar Osterkamp and set the record straight

World agenda
Paul Quintos

People’s goals

How we will make you listen – civil society from developing countries deserves more say in global affairs

Cross-border migration
Samir Abi

International solidarity

The role of international migrants in the fight against poverty needs to be taken into account

Decentralisation
Holger Thomsen
Heike Meuser

Considerable change

In Mozambique, devolution is moving ahead, but much remains to be done

Participation
Ulrich Nitschke
Alice Priori

Becoming agents of change

Young people in the Palestinian Territories deserve more say in public affairs

Food security
J. Jackson Ewing

Less hunger, but more health hazards

Hunger has decreased in the Asia-Pacific region, but there are new concerns about food security

Cambodia
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Dealing with the past

Initiatives help young Cambodians come to terms with the trauma of the dictatorial Khmer Rouge regime

Solar energy
Arwed Milz

Light and dark

Solar markets are growing fast in Burkina Faso, but much remains to be done to tap their full potential

India
Boro Baski
Boro Baski

Santal worries

The young generation of India's Adivasis struggles with tough problems other youth do not have

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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.

Preventing Boko Haram from recruiting young people
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

Sustainability

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

Preventing Boko Haram from recruiting young people
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