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Coaching

Supporting the drive for improvement

Technical cooperation needs to be more directly targeted to support processes of change

Abortion
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Public disclosure

Salvadoran celebrity’s personal story ignites debate over decriminalisation of abortion

Women’s health
Ipsita Sapra

Avoidable surgical interventions

India has too many unsafe abortions – and too many Caesarean sections

Women’s health
Ipsita Sapra

Still a distant dream

Despite considerable progress, India’s maternal mortality rate remains very high

Human and animal health
Cornelia Heine

The animals die first

Water and sanitation are crucial for human and animal health

Agenda 2030
Martin Noltze
Sven Harten

New need for knowledge

Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) are the key to the success of global sustainability policies

International financial institutions
Korinna Horta

Concern for the most vulnerable

New World Bank Framework puts poor people at risk of displacement and marginalisation, ignoring lessons of the past

Agriculture
Frank Bliss
Karin Gaesing

Indispensable legal certainty

Legal certainty in land-ownership questions is decisive for the battle against poverty

Registration matters
Sun Narin

Land titles help to prevent conflict

Why land disputes have become a serious and persistent issue in Cambodia

Civil peace service
Armando Mussa Sani
Jasmina Barckhausen

Theatre sheds light on conflicts

Guinea-Bissau must finally apply its land law in order to resolve conflicts

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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.

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
Waithood – endless adolescence
“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”

Sustainability

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

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
Waithood – endless adolescence
“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”