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Gender Equality

In order to achieve gender equality, it is necessary to empower women and girls.

Kerstin Thost

Defending the progress made

A great deal has changed for the better for queer people in Germany in recent decades. At the same time, they continue to be victims of targeted physical and psychological violence. The figures for hate crime directed against them are rising. All democrats sho...

Gender relations
Marva Khan
Marva Khan

A brief history of rape law in Pakistan

Why Victorian norms still permeate South Asian laws

Rule of law
Marva Khan
Marva Khan

Improving rape victims’ access to the courts

Pakistan ends shameful practice of virginity testing in prosecution of sexualised violence

Hintegrund
Bimbola Oyesola
Bimbola Oyesola

Be fruitful and multiply

In Nigeria childless couples face ostracism – and women suffer in particular Webheadline: Infertility is a human -rights issue

Gender equality
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Successes and setbacks in women's equality

Despite the pandemic, UNICEF never lost sight of its commitment to gender equality

Disability
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Empowering women and changing minds

Civil-society organisations are calling for the empowerment of disabled women who have experienced violence

Disempowerment
Mireille Kanyange
Mireille Kanyange

Where women work and men decide

According to a Burundian saying, he who lacks a good woman lacks wealth

Emancipation
Mona Naggar
Mona Naggar

Women are slowly asserting themselves in MENA region

In Arab countries, examples prove that patriarchal family traditions can indeed be changed

Gender justice
Alphonce Shiundu
Alphonce Shiundu

To empower women, pass and enforce laws

Africa needs more women in positions of leadership, and that will require socio-cultural change

Women’s empowerment
Bimbola Oyesola
Bimbola Oyesola

Double burden of household work and earning money

As in many developing countries, masses of women are slaving away in Nigeria’s informal sector

Women’s rights
Sundus Saleemi
Sundus Saleemi

How illiteracy perpetuates oppression of Pakistani women

Half of Pakistan’s women cannot read or write in any language

Poverty Reduction

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

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?
Inequality is getting worse according to UNDP

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.

BRICS-members are not coordinating their West-Africa strategies
Defending the progress made
To define Pakistan as a nation, Islam is insufficient
Pakistan’s politically assertive women
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Sustainability

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

BRICS-members are not coordinating their West-Africa strategies
Defending the progress made
To define Pakistan as a nation, Islam is insufficient
Pakistan’s politically assertive women
Join us to discuss global development