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Scottish comedian Richard Gadd (centre) addresses his own experiences of sexualised violence in his miniseries “Baby Reindeer”.

Masculinity

Sexualised violence against men: the Baby Reindeer effect

Men experience stalking, assaults and relationship violence too, but they rarely seek and find help. Series like “Baby Reindeer” challenge cliches, and new initiatives are trying to reach young people online, like on the gaming platform Twitch.

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by Sonja Peteranderl
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Uzbekistan’s face is changing: In the mountainous Zaamin area, the longest suspension pedestrian bridge in Central Asia was built.

Sustainable Development Goals

How Uzbekistan has achieved rapid SDG progress

It’s a leap forward that has raised eyebrows: The Central Asian country ranks fifth worldwide for its 2015–2024 efforts to reach the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), according to the SDG Report 2025. How did Uzbekistan, long associated with stagnation and rural poverty, become such a fast reformer?

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by Shahida Tulaganova
Small-scale miners at a riverbed on the outskirts of Harare.

Mining

How Zimbabwe’s gold rush is poisoning water

In Zimbabwe, rising gold prices are fuelling a boom in unregulated small-scale mining, which is coming at a heavy cost to health and the environment. The mercury used in the process is contaminating the country’s water sources, but corruption and political interests continue to protect a dangerous black market.

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by Tsitsi Bhobo
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Helen Zughaib

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Distribution of improved cooking devices in Rwanda: funds are allocated to projects such as this one under the contribution-claim model.

Contribution-claim approach

How companies can contribute to climate justice voluntarily

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by Lukas Küsters
by Kirsten Gade
In May, the African Union has inaugurated the African Space Agency (AfSA).

Good News

Useful AI tools and the African Space Agency

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by D+C / E+Z
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Uzbekistan’s face is changing: In the mountainous Zaamin area, the longest suspension pedestrian bridge in Central Asia was built.
Sustainable Development Goals

How Uzbekistan has achieved rapid SDG progress

It’s a leap forward that has raised eyebrows: The Central Asian country ranks fifth worldwide for its 2015–2024 efforts to reach the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). How did Uzbekistan become such a fast reformer?

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by Shahida Tulaganova
Argentina’s President Javier Milei and US President Donald Trump drill into the world: activists in costumes during COP30.
Right-wing populism

“The Sustainable Development Goals are seen as the enemy”

Right-wing propaganda and anti-democratic policies are spreading: Is the zeitgeist undermining the Sustainable Development Goals?

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by Imme Scholz
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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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The Green Wave has spread across Latin America: A policewoman raises her arm as she guards members of feminist collectives protesting in the streets of Mexico City in 2023. She wears a green ribbon in solidarity.

Misogyny and authoritarianism

When authoritarians are on the rise, it’s bad news for women’s rights

by Macarena Saez Eva-Maria Verfürth
Demonstrators and lawmakers rally against US President Donald Trump and Elon Musk as they disrupt the federal government, including dismantling USAID, in Washington in February.

International cooperation

The destruction of American development policy

by Stephan Klingebiel
On International Women’s Day 2019, Afghan artists painted this graffiti on the wall of the Ministry of Women’s Affairs, which was dissolved by the Taliban in 2021. The premises are now home to the “Ministry of Praying and Instructing, Promoting Virtue, and Preventing Vice”, which oversees the implementation of Islamic law.

Women in Afghanistan

“Even that red line no longer exists”

by Selmin Çalışkan Eva-Maria Verfürth
At the 2024 Nalafem Summit in Windhoek, Namibia – a multigenerational platform for gender commitment in Africa.

Cross-border feminism

African women on the rise

by Aya Chebbi
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