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Learning Chinese
Derrick Silimina
Derrick Silimina

The Mandarin road to success

Learning to speak Chinese opens a wide range of job opportunities in Zambia

Mass suffering
Roli Mahajan

India’s disastrous second Covid-19 wave

Coronavirus is ravaging India’s cities and rural areas

Uganda
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

More malaria and infectious diseases

Uganda fears a decline in public health as a result of climate change

Sustainable Development Goals
Raphael Mweninguwe

Missing the target

The UN is allocating fresh funds to small firms to help Malawi meet SDG goals

Zambia
Derrick Silimina
Derrick Silimina

Think local, buy local

In difficult economic times, Zambia encourages consumers to buy local goods

Global Fund for Social Protection
Markus Kaltenborn
Laura Kreft

Social security for all

A Global Fund for Social Protection to help low-income countries finance basic social security

Education
Sundus Saleemi
Sundus Saleemi

Digital literacy would help Pakistan’s female population

Why most Pakistani women are denied digital opportunities

Women’s rights
Sundus Saleemi
Sundus Saleemi

How illiteracy perpetuates oppression of Pakistani women

Half of Pakistan’s women cannot read or write in any language

Sustainability
Michael Steffen

Environmentally enhanced Human Development Index

In response to dramatic risks, UNDP now considers environmental aspects in modified Human Development Index

Remote schooling
Farai Shawn Matiashe

New useful tool for remote learning

A WhatsApp bot is supporting remote learning in Zimbabwe – it was co-developed by a student

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Poverty Reduction

The first UN Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

An Indian student expresses her concern about global heating
Biogas innovation: Clean energy and fertiliser for Malawi’s farmers
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Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy
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Gender Equality

In order to achieve gender equality, it is necessary to empower women and girls.

NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Improving female entrepreneurs’ self-esteem
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Kenyan military ordered to end HIV discrimination in recruitment
A cookbook reveals the connection of diet and tradition

Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy
Voodoo allows a holistic view of the cosmos
Brazil’s colonial legacies and current challenges
Indigenous banks collapsing in Zambia: A closer look at Investrust

Sustainability

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

NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy
Voodoo allows a holistic view of the cosmos
Brazil’s colonial legacies and current challenges
Indigenous banks collapsing in Zambia: A closer look at Investrust