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Gender equality

How a transgender tobacco farmer in Zimbabwe is fighting for dignity

In a country where queer people face exclusion, formal agriculture offers rare stability. Yet significant risks remain.

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by Lungelo Ndhlovu

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Selling essential goods in Sylhet, Bangladesh in early 2020.

Our view

Pandemic lessons

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Protesters in Kashmir demand better living conditions for people with disabilities, 2020.

Human rights

Legal frameworks to protect disabled people

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by Rainer Brockhaus
People with disabilities at a shelter in Haiti in 2021.

Discrimination

Development cooperation must become more inclusive

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by Rainer Brockhaus
Street-side barbershop in Zimbabwe.

Our view

The nightmare of states that are too small

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by Hans Dembowski
Rural women in Kenya: fetching water can take a long time, and it may not be safe for drinking.

Gender relations

Domestic helpers are informally employed in many countries

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by Sundus Saleemi
Sundus Saleemi
Drought in Kenya, March 2022.

Climate-risk insurance

Promising examples of climate-risk insurance schemes

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by Renate Bleich
by Dirk Reinhard
by Christian Barthelt
Insurances help to control financial damages: devastation caused by Typhoon Ray in the Philippines in late 2021.

Insurance

Managing climate risk with private insurance

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by Renate Bleich
by Dirk Reinhard
by Christian Barthelt
Flooded homes in Louisiana after Hurricane Ida.

Extreme weather

USA increasingly hit by weather-related disasters

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by Katie Cashman
The village of Dernau in the Ahr Valley in Germany was almost completely flooded in July 2021.

Disaster response

Learning from the catastrophe in the German Ahr Valley

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by Wolf R. Dombrowsky
This satellite image shows a collapsed ice shelf the size of New York City in East Antarctica in March 2022. The area had long been believed to be stable.

Relevant reading

Climate hazards are increasing fast

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by Mahwish Gul
Mahwish Gul