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International sports
Theresa Krinninger

Glow time

Scandals have forced anti-doping agencies to act more forcefully

Urban development
Regina Brück
Hermann-Josef Ostlender
Mona Plate
Gabriele Schütz-Lembach

Learning from one another

Municipal development cooperation: Aachen and Cape Town break new ground

Standardisation
Andreas Hauser

Turning wastewater into drinking water

TÜV SÜD is working on an international standard for decentralised wastewater treatment systems

Recycling
Mona Naggar
Mona Naggar

Bonding through waste separation

Syrian refugees and their Lebanese neighbours are taking their waste disposal problems into their own hands

Primary schools
Boro Baski
Boro Baski

India is facing huge challenges

India’s rural primary schools still have room for improvement

Recycling
Ruediger Kuehr

“22 kilogrammes per person and year“

Why e-waste must be properly recycled

Urban rubbish
Jochen Moninger
Raphael Thurn-Valsassina

The cleanest city in Sierra Leone

Bo's city council is setting new standards for waste disposal

Waste management
Roshan Sharma

Living amidst filth

Waste management has not kept up with Kathmandu’s fast growth

Recycling
Oliver Möllenstädt

A system for collecting waste

How a local initiative is encouraging waste pickers in Mumbai to contribute to up-to-date plastics recycling

Asia
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Multilateral banks honeymoon

The first co-financing effort looks promising, but ADB and AIIB may yet become fierce adversaries

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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.

How a pedagogy of sustainability can help Africa’s future
Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
Waithood – endless adolescence
“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets

Sustainability

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

How a pedagogy of sustainability can help Africa’s future
Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
Waithood – endless adolescence
“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets