Physical and social infrastructures

IT industry

New 29/09/2022 – by Eyram Tawia; Sabine Balk

Fighting Coronavirus with a computer game

Ghanaian computer game developer Eyram Tawia on Covid-19 impacts on his business

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Our view

New 28/09/2022 – by Sabine Balk

Pandemic lessons

Climate mitigation has positive health impacts internationally

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Green transformation

New 27/09/2022 – by Andreas Burger

Crisis as an opportunity

Crises like the Covid-19 pandemic offer opportunities for eco-friendly stimulus programmes

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Flooding

New 22/09/2022 – by Imran Mukhtar

Pakistan is paying price for neglect of climate adaptation

Not having contributed much to climate change, Pakistanis suffer impacts

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Sustainable development

New 20/09/2022 – by Manzur Kadir Ahmed, Hans Dembowski

Bengali doctor says pandemic proved validity of SDG agenda

Covid-19 caused hardship in Bangladesh, but proved less devastating than initially feared

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Poverty

New 18/09/2022 – by Mahwish Gul

School closures in pandemic showed multidimensional poverty

UNICEF reckons that one third of the world’s schoolchildren did not get formal lessons because of Covid-19

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Social inclusion

28/08/2022 – by Sharlin Akther

Children with disabilities deserve to be encouraged

In Bangladesh persons with disabilities tend to be excluded from mainstream society

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Our view

25/08/2022 – by Sabine Balk

Do not abandon people with disabilities

Inclusion of people with disabilities is needed for gender justice, because around the world, women do most of the care work

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Post growth

21/08/2022 – by Dagmar Wolf

“A good life doesn’t have to cost the Earth”

British economist contemplates an economy in which the goal is not unlimited growth, but rather an equilibrium between people and nature

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Human rights

11/08/2022 – by Rainer Brockhaus

Legal frameworks to protect disabled people

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the UN’s 2030 Agenda guarantee rights to protection and participation

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Discrimination

10/08/2022 – by Rainer Brockhaus

Development cooperation must become more inclusive

Policy makers and civil society must recognise inclusion as a cross-cutting task – and so must international development and humanitarian relief

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