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KfW funds energy-efficient construction – here in Bangalore/India.

India

Creating new standards

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by Friederike Bauer
Playing music boosts a person’s self-confidence.

Music

„Constructing citizenship”

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by Sarah Hornsby
Well-trained experts at the Ifakara Health Institute in Tanzania.

Research

Tackling global problems together

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by Jon-Andri Lys
by Alexander Schulze
Extensive grazing causes deforestation.

Forest protection

Bonus for early movers

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by Friederike Bauer
Anti-rape protest in Delhi.

Domestic violence

Miles apart, ­sisters in pain

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by Damilola Oyedele
Slum in the Indian state of Jharkhand: new strategies are required. Heldur Netocny/Lineair

Strategies

Beyond aid – new ways forward?

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by Stephan Klingebiel
by Sebastian Paulo
by Heiner Janus
Caption: Anti-government demonstrations in São Paulo in June: civil-society organisations want global governance to respond positively to social protests.

Relevant reading

An alternative model of governance

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by Nadja Meisterhans
Poverty has many dimensions: Wastepicker in Hong Kong.

Poverty

Redefining poverty

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by Hildegard Lingnau
Hildegard Lingnau
Agent-orange victim selling souvenirs in Ho-Chi-Minh-City: people with disabilities tend to be marginalised.

Inclusion

One billion people overlooked

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by Emma Samman
by Laura Rodriguez Takeuchi
by Esther Sommer
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