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Development and cooperation

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Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit

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Urbanisierung
Marginalised communities
Thuany Rodrigues

Where Brazil's neglected people live

Favelas are a particular kind of disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Brazilian cities

Our view
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

More than a mere shelter

Upgrading slums is one of the crucial issues to provide adequate housing for all

Environmental protection
Ridwanul Hoque

Nice try

Why an important court ruling concerning Bangladesh’s natural environment did not set an internationally relevant precedent

Fire hazards
Derrick Silimina
Derrick Silimina

Up in flames

Zambian poor are increasingly subject to fire hazards from charcoal and firewood they use for heating and cooking

Summer Special
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Kolkata, New York, Venice

Amitav Ghosh’s novel “Gun island” deals with global heating and global migration

International cooperation
Daniel Nordmann
Helmut Lang
Katrin Gronemeier

Averting “Day Zero”

How to improve urban water supply in sub-Saharan Africa

Marginalised communities
Thuany Rodrigues

Spreading dangerously

Covid-19 strikes hard in Rio de Janeiro's many informal settlements

Water
Krupa Ge

Marginalised women’s plight

Women’s stressful duty of procuring water

Urban life
Krupa Ge

No water – or too much of it

2019 Chennai suffered a terrible drought – after devastating flooding four years earlier

Traffic congestion
Karim Okanla

Fury behind the wheel

Road rage is on the rise on Cotonou’s congested streets

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Poverty Reduction

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

BRICS-members are not coordinating their West-Africa strategies
When a relatively strong African country is struggling on all fronts
When qualifications don’t decide your career
Whose development?
Inequality is getting worse according to UNDP

Gender Equality

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

Defending the progress made
Pakistan’s politically assertive women
Consequences of cyclone Freddy
Jobless due to epilepsy
Why ODA is better than its reputation in donor countries

Governance

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

From colonial division to bloody conflict
BRICS-members are not coordinating their West-Africa strategies
Defending the progress made
To define Pakistan as a nation, Islam is insufficient
Pakistan’s politically assertive women

Sustainability

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

From colonial division to bloody conflict
BRICS-members are not coordinating their West-Africa strategies
Defending the progress made
To define Pakistan as a nation, Islam is insufficient
Pakistan’s politically assertive women