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Armutsbekämpfung

Team of the SLE post-graduate study programme.

Development policy

Experts want true cooperation instead of paternalism

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
People with disabilities at a shelter in Haiti in 2021.

Discrimination

Development cooperation must become more inclusive

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by Rainer Brockhaus

Violence

Thousands of people missing in Mexico

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by Pamela Cruz
Pamela Cruz
Gond women showing the ink marks that indicate they took part in the state elections in Madhya Pradesh in late 2018.

India’s Adivasis

Over 100 million people belong to India’s scheduled tribes

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by Suparna Banerjee
Suparna Banerjee
Protesters wanted neither Gotabaya Rajapaksa nor Ranil Wickremesinghe to stay – graffiti in Colombo in mid-July.

Economic meltdown

Sri Lanka’s new president is well known, but not popular

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by Arjuna Ranawana
Paramilitary troops on patrol in Chhattisgarh after a gun fight with leftist extremists.

Governance

How central Indian forests become sites of conflict

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by Suparna Banerjee
Suparna Banerjee
Healer procuring supplies for traditional medicinal use at a local market in the Nigerian city of Akure in August 2019.

Traditional medicine

Why many Africans must rely on informal health care

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by Ben Ezeamalu
Ben Ezeamalu
Older people have a right to a dignified life: a woman in Sogamoso, Colombia.

Demographic change

Older people’s rights are human rights

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by Dagmar Wolf
Election winners Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez.

Democracy

Colombians have voted for change

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by Fabio Andrés Díaz Pabón
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