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The African Continental Free Trade Area creates opportunities for Africa: Workers of a factory producing sodium silicate in Kenya.

Continental Free Trade Area

A milestone for African trade

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by Christoph Kannengießer
“In an unsustainable global environment, every nation will suffer”: Typhoon Haishen on 4 September 2020.

UNDP

After Covid-19 pandemic, "build forward better"

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by Achim Steiner
by Hans Dembowski
Mauritius is losing its beaches to erosion, as here in Belle Mare at the east coast. , Building a light-rail transportation system is one of Mauritius’ measures to curb emissions. Construction site of the Metro Express in Port Louis, the capital city.

SIDS

Mauritian minister warns: “It is a matter of life and death”

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by Kavydass Ramano
by Katja Dombrowski
Cyclone shelters saved lives: rural women seeking refuge on 20 May 2020.

Climate impacts

To prevent death and destruction, accept climate science

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by Saleemul Huq
by Hans Dembowski
Higher gas prices led to mass protests in Ecuador in 2019.

Decarbonisation

A carbon tax should promote redistribution

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by Katja Dombrowski
Basic social security includes general preventive health care: a health centre for children in Senegal.

Global Fund for Social Protection

Social security for all

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by Markus Kaltenborn
by Laura Kreft
Violence in the classroom is too common: a school in Uganda.

Training

Preventing teacher violence

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by Laura Hinze
Corporal punishment and humiliation are still part and parcel of schooling in many countries – as here in Benin.

Educational practices

The dire consequences of school violence

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by Laura Hinze
Primary school girls in Punjab province, where the enrolment rate is comparatively good.

Women’s rights

How illiteracy perpetuates oppression of Pakistani women

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by Sundus Saleemi
Sundus Saleemi
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