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Infrastructure
Bastian Schnabel

Safe supply

WHO promotes process management for ensuring safe drinking water

Post-crisis country
Anne Jung

Wealth, but no health

Sierra Leone’s health services do not deliver on official promises

Marginalisation
Ipsita Sapra

No voice

Consequences of disability in India

Health for all
Barbara Kühlen
Susanne Schmitz

Buen Vivir

Primary health care: why voluntary health workers matter in Latin America

Demographic change
Michael Bünte

Specific health problems

Developing countries must prepare for ageing populations with specific health needs

Empowerment
Ulrike Wahl

A social benefit

Siemens Stiftung promotes technology for sustainable development

Labour relations
Marianne Scholte

Distorted ­perception

German media's distorted idea of garments production in Bangladesh

Human Security
Karl Kopp

Europe’s borders

The human rights problems with EU border agency Frontex

Europe
Steffen Angenendt

Opening slowly

How the EU plans to reconcile policies on migration and development

Relevant reading
Marcus Böhme

A research agenda

Review essay: relevant reading on migration and development

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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.

Better protection for schools in northern Nigeria
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

Sustainability

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

Better protection for schools in northern Nigeria
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