We'd like to modernise our digital outreach in ways that suit your needs.
Please support us and do take part in this anonymous online survey regarding our users’ preferences.

Hintergrund
Climate justice

Climate justice cannot be left to market dynamics

There is an international trend to draft green deals, but they are not up to task

Totalitarian aspirations

Modi opponents are called anti-national

How Hindu supremacists are spreading hate and distorting public discourse in India

Urban life

What expats say about crime in Europe and Brazil

Violent crime is a much bigger threat in Rio than in Hamburg or London

German Policymaking

Towards an equitable world

Svenja Schulze, Germany’s new federal minister for economic cooperation and development, has told D+C/E+Z what her priorities are

Gated communities

In Rio, the price of a safe home is very high

For the privileged few, gated communities provide a refuge from violent crime in Brazil

Journalism

Brave Filipina fighting for the factual truth

The independent website Rappler has become an indispensable source of information in the Philippines

Migration and education

High hurdles in German education system

Refugee children and their families have a hard time negotiating Germany’s complex, heterogeneous educational landscape.

Reforestation

For a sustainable future, Malawi must restore forest lands

Country in southern Africa needs a vigorous programme of land conservation and tree-planting to reverse the steady erosion of forests

Coherent policymaking

Weak governance systems do not consider long-term trends

In least-developed countries, community resilience depends on eco-system resilience

Covid-19

African Covid-19 containment strategies have failed

Africa has low crorononavirus mortality rates, but frightfully low vaccination rates too

Subscribe to Hintergrund

Sustainability

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