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Hereros commemorate victims of colonial violence in 2007

Dealing with the past

Colonial shadows

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by Henning Melber
Men can even fetch water.

Men as agents of change

Role model

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by Rita Schäfer
Street-side business in Kolkata.

Solar power

Clean energy at low cost

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by Sandip Chattopadhyay
Trucks waiting at Zambia’s border.

Private Sector

Underestimated production factor

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by Ute Papkalla
Jamaica has made the WHO’s Water Safety Plan part of its national regulations, protecting drinking waters as well as natural resources: Shaw waterfalls in Ocho Rios.

Infrastructure

Safe supply

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by Bastian Schnabel
Those working for a pittance in the extractive sector are excluded from social services: washing diamonds in Sierra Leone.

Post-crisis country

Wealth, but no health

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by Anne Jung
A Life Help Centre for people with disabilities in Chennai formerly Madras.

Marginalisation

No voice

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by Ipsita Sapra
Traditional midwife in Guatemala.

Health for all

Buen Vivir

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by Barbara Kühlen
by Susanne Schmitz
In Africa, many grand parents become surrogate parents, raising grandchildren whose parents died of AIDS.

Demographic change

Specific health problems

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by Michael Bünte
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