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Broadcasting
Linda Vierecke

Village voices

Why community radios matter so much to indigenous people in Bolivia

Media development
Alexander Matschke

Freedom of expression promotes democracy

Alexander Matschke: Promoting free media is a task for development policy

Journalists
Petra Tabeling

Staying safe and sane

Petra Tabeling: In crisis areas, journalists are at risk in physical and psychological terms.

Netizens
Mona Naggar
Mona Naggar

Blogging for change

Young bloggers discuss daily life under Israeli occupation in Palestine

Participation

Better qualified

Juan Ordoñez Caetano: Indigenous people in Bolivia learn radio skills in order to contribute to local radio programmes

Lifelong learning
Werner Eggert

Online follow-up

After face-to-face seminars have ended, development agencies should continue journalistic training online

Senegal
Abdou Lo

Higher learning and elections

Why Senegal, a small country, is good at providing international organisations with leaders

Op-ed voices

“The future of the human race”

Asian and African newspapers’ comments on special climate summit in New York

Media
Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Ambivalent trends

The questions of who controls and who monitors information on the internet are becoming ever more urgent

Civil society
Eva-Maria Verfürth

Protective encryption

Ways to protect online activists’ free speech from government repression

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Poverty Reduction

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

India’s tiny plutocratic elite is growing fast
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?

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.

Chinese funded steel mill displaces locals in Zimbabwe
India’s tiny plutocratic elite is growing fast
From colonial division to bloody conflict
BRICS-members are not coordinating their West-Africa strategies
Defending the progress made

Sustainability

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

Chinese funded steel mill displaces locals in Zimbabwe
India’s tiny plutocratic elite is growing fast
From colonial division to bloody conflict
BRICS-members are not coordinating their West-Africa strategies
Defending the progress made