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Empowerment

Spectacular achievement

Successful family planning in Bangladesh – a holistic approach leads to lower fertility rates rates and empowers women

Health

Systemic failure

Health is a global public good and must figure among the post-2015 development goals.

Lack of social safety net

From valuable to vulnerable

After civil war, many old people must fend for themselves in Sierra Leone

Teenage pregnancy

Right to childhood

The long term impacts of teenage pregnancies on girls and society

Social policy

First Global AgeWatch Index

New Global AgeWatch Index reveals need for pension reforms in many countries

Demographics

Pensions for all elderly people

HelpAge warns that international agencies are paying too little attention to ageing of entire societies

Urgent issue

Fundamental principle

Social-protection innovations neither serve everyone in developing countries and emerging markets, nor do they cover all risks.

Social infrastructure

No rest in retirement

In Nigeria, many old-age pensioners have not enough to live on

Microinsurance

Healthy clients

Pro Mujer: Why microfinance institutions should offer healthcare services too

Planned parenthood

Indispensable issue

Women all over the world must be empowered to decide how many children they want

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Governance

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

Sustainability

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