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Today, indignous women in the Andes are no longer at risk of forced sterilisation.

Human-rights violations

Forcibly sterilised

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by Helena-Ulrike Marambio
Ultrasound exami­nation of a pregnant woman in Jamshedpur, India.

Gender relations

Aborted girls, trafficked women

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by Nilanjana Ray
DSW

Empowering women

Rights-based family planning

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by Renate Bähr
President Jim Yong Kim wants to reform the World Bank.

World Bank

Reforming root and branch

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by Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven
by Martin Kipping
Sceptics wonder whether aid is helping at all: Haitians lining up for drinking water after the earth quake in 2010.

Beyond aid

Regaining solidarity

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Maize is a stable food in Africa, and due to global warming there, suitable land for ­cultivating is becoming scarce: farmer in Burkina Faso.

Global challenges

Common goal, shared responsibility

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by Gerd Müller
Renewable energies have enormous potential in Senegal: a photovoltaic plant in Thies, the country’s fifth-largest city.

Senegal

More water, wind and solar power

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by Mansour Dahouenon
by Annette von Lossau
Environmentalists demand a clean future for the entire planet during the climate summit in Warsaw last year.

Future development policy

New cooperation

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by Anita Mehnert
Denmark gets about one third of its electric power from windfarms: off-shore windmills.

Climate finance

Raising additional investment capital

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by Morten Elkjær
by Niels Egerup
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