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Scene from the music video for “Maandamano” by Bien and Breeder LW.

Music

Dancing under tear gas

For the second year in a row, thousands of young people took to the streets in Kenya in mid-2025 to protest the government and especially the high cost of living. The so-called Gen Z protest movement is also driven by music – there are countless videos that show dancing demonstrators confronting armed police. The soundtrack to both waves of protest has already achieved cult status.

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by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
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The logo of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals: In Germany, sustainability is often used to refer to ecological issues.

UN Sustainable Development Goals

The SDG’s core vision: an opportunity for development cooperation

The realisation of environmental protection alongside development lies at the heart of the SDGs. Refocusing on this core vision gives an opportunity, not only in development cooperation, to rethink the issue and embrace a positive vision of the future.

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by Estelle Herlyn

2030 Agenda in numbers

Global development goals: progress and setbacks

The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the most comprehensive yardstick for measuring how the world is developing. They came into force 10 years ago and will remain in place until 2030. Here is their current status in facts and figures.

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by Isah Shafiq
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Development in culture

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On our own behalf

The future of D+C

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Aiming for a better world

The logo of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals: In Germany, sustainability is often used to refer to ecological issues.
UN Sustainable Development Goals

The SDG’s core vision: an opportunity for development cooperation

The realisation of environmental protection alongside development lies at the heart of the SDGs. Refocusing on this core vision gives an opportunity, not only in development cooperation, to rethink the issue and embrace a positive vision of the future.

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by Estelle Herlyn
2030 Agenda in numbers

Global development goals: progress and setbacks

The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the most comprehensive yardstick for measuring how the world is developing. They came into force 10 years ago and will remain in place until 2030. Here is their current status in facts and figures.

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by Isah Shafiq
The building of the German Parliament (Bundestag). There are fewer women in Parliament than in the previous legislative period.
Governance

Driving force or hindrance? Germany and the SDGs

Germany is among those leading the way on the global Sustainable Development Goals. Nonetheless, it is falling significantly short of the targets in key areas such as poverty, inequality, education and gender equality.

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by Tobias Hauschild
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Good news and solution stories

From groundbreaking court rulings to inspiring projects – positive change is happening all the time. Find out how people drive progress.

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In der Hindukusch-Himalaya-Region schmelzen die Gletscher
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Global environment

Restoring the planet’s environmental health is indispensable

The Guohua coal-fired power plant in northern China.

International climate protection

“You cannot always wait for everyone”

by Mojib Latif Katharina Wilhelm Otieno Jörg Döbereiner
Nasir Haji inspects her underwater sponge farm.

Coastal communities

Sustainable sponges

by Kizito Makoye
Farmer releases fish into a rice field in Qingtian County, China.

Traditional agriculture

Traditional agricultural ecosystems harbour remarkable biodiversity

by Min Qingwen Guo Xuan
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Plattenladen im Kenyatta-Markt in Nairobi
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Culture Special

Art with a developmental connection - compiled for you by the D+C editorial team.

Seh-Dong-Hong-Beh, a leader of the Dahomey female warriors, painted by Frederick Forbes in 1851.

Film

“The Woman King”: Emancipation and bloodshed

by Jörg Döbereiner
Arti performed in Benares in 2019: the Hindu ceremony figures in Krupa Ge’s novel.

Gender justice

Eight decades of gender relations in South India

by Hans Dembowski
The group’s first album is named after the Egyptian city of Aswan on the Nile.

Intercultural music

Music of the Nile

by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
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Kinder auf einem staatlichen Schulhof in Nigeria.
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Education

Around the world, access to education must be made easier and its quality has to improve

Internet

Why media literacy matters in Zimbabwe

by Zenzele Ndebele Bhekizulu Tshuma
Lane in a Mumbai slum: poor children were largely abandoned during the pandemic.

Education in India

Covid-19’s devastating effects on India’s education

by Roli Mahajan
Informal labourers like these gold prospectors do not appear in Ghana’s unemployment statistics.

Ghana

Promoting employment in Ghana

by Marian Burchardt Florian Stoll
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Eine Sammlung von Geldscheinen und Münzen.
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Fiscal space

In view of multiple crises, state agencies must stay able to invest in crucial infrastructure and services

Global leaders in tree-planting photo opportunity in Bali.

Global governance

G20 leaders are “not in a state of denial”

by Iwan J. Azis Hans Dembowski
British Prime Minister Liz Truss and Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng were only in office for a few weeks because financial markets rejected policies that were supposed to please them.

Government revenues

How to increase the fiscal space

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by Praveen Jha
Street vendors in Zambia: The government wants to escape over-indebtedness with IMF and G20 support.

Governance

Debt situation is escalating in many developing countries

by Kathrin Berensmann
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A woman in Iran is protesting for her rights.
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Gender equality

Empowering women and girls is crucial to achieving gender justice.

 

Expressing solidarity in Karachi.

Religious totalitarianism

Iran’s protests resonate around the world

by Marva Khan
Jobs matter: women working in ceramics manufacturing in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Gender justice

How education and employment improve gender equality

by Sundus Saleemi
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Menstruation

Biological facts every girl must know

by Mahwish Gul
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