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Children

NGOs work to save Asia's drowning children

Kinderschwimmkurs in Ho-Chi-Min Stadt, Vietnam. Über eine Million Menschen ertrinken jedes Jahr, weil sie nicht schwimmen können, viele davon sind Kinder in Entwicklungsländern. Schwimmkurse wie dieser , organisiert von der NGO SwimSafe können helfen das Ertrinken von Kindern zu verhindern. Ho chi Min Stadt, Vietnam, Mai 2013 A swimming instructor teaches survival-swimming skills to students at Be Van Dan Primary School, in the central city of Danang, Vietnam. The school's principal says the classes will help keep the children safe from water hazards.

About 95 percent of child drowning deaths occur in Asia, where two-thirds of the world's children live. One project is trying to make a difference by giving kids the training they need to stay safe in the water.

Labor relations

In Focus Textile workers struggle for rights

Bangladeshi relatives hold photos of the missing and dead workers three days after an eight-storey building collapsed in Dhaka on April 27, 2013 (Photo: Munir Uz Zaman)

The deaths of hundreds of people in unsafe factories in Bangladesh and Cambodia have thrown the spotlight on working conditions in developing countries - and the western retailers that benefit from them.

Cambodian factory deaths shine spotlight on conditions

Bangladesh disaster prompts reforms

New York Police Department officers talk to each other as they stand in front of 51 Park Place where debris from 9/11 is believed to have been found in New York, April 26, 2013 (Photo: Lucas Jackson)

Policing the police

Activist Joseph "Jazz" Hayden is trying to give a voice to the voiceless in Harlem. While chronicling alleged injustices by the police, he's fallen foul of New York City authorities himself.

Economy

Is Africa's economic boom a myth?

Skyscrapers in Luanda, Angola. Photo: AP, Schalk van Zuydam)

Africa is celebrating 50 years of political unity and the economy is also booming. It's now widely seen as a region of great opportunities, but experts are skeptical about how long this will last.

Investors see great potential buried in African soil

Economy

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on January 2, 2013 in New York City (Photo: Spencer Platt)

Double standards

German researchers find that markets affect whether people make moral decisions.

Development Policy

Helen Clark, head of the UNDP. Photo: Helle Jeppesen for DW

Making a sustainable world

The head of the UN Development Program calls for a "new paradigm" for sustainable development.

Weekly Profile

The Storytellers

DW's correspondents profile local leaders, activists, artists, musicians, rich and poor, ordinary and extraordinary people from around the globe, whose lives tell us more about the world we live in.

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  • Ein Junge spielt Fußball mit AU-Soldaten (Foto: STUART PRICE/AFP/Getty Images)

    Somalia - caught between peace and anarchy

    Return to normalcy?

    War-torn Somalia in the Horn of Africa has not experienced peace since the fall of President Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991. The often drought stricken country later became a haven for pirates and Islamists. The al-Shabab extremists had banned all sorts of entertainments including playing football. Today, this boy can play with soldiers from the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM).

  • Somalische Parliamentarier werden auf dem Flughafen eingeschworen (Foto: Mohamed Abdiwahab/AFP/GettyImages)

    Somalia - caught between peace and anarchy

    A new parliament for Somalia

    AMISOM forces together with Ethiopian and Somalia troops have pushed al-Shabab militants from Mogadishu and other major towns. In August 2012, Somalia's new parliament was sworn in after eight years of a transitional government. For safety reasons the ceremony was conducted on the better guarded city airport.

  • Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (Mitte) (Foto: ABDURASHID ABDULLE ABIKAR/AFP/GettyImages)

    Somalia - caught between peace and anarchy

    The country’s hope bearer

    For the first time in 20 years, Somalia’s Parliament elected a new President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in September 2012. Just two days after taking office, Sheikh Mohamud escaped a suicide bombing. The 56-year-old university professor and moderate Muslim has since become a target of several attacks.

  • Fischer sitzen in ihren Booten in Marka (Foto: SIMON MAINA/AFP/GettyImages)

    Somalia - caught between peace and anarchy

    Liberating Somalia's coast

    Somali fishermen in the coastal town of Marka, located around 100 kilometers from Mogadishu watch the arrival of AU troops in September 2012. The city on the Indian Ocean had long been an al-Shabab stronghold. At the end of September, the rebels were driven out by Kenyan AU soldiers from their last major bastion in the coastal town of Kismayu.

  • Ein Junge sitzt auf einer vollgepackten Ladefläche eines Trucks (Foto: Mohamed Abdiwahab/AFP/GettyImages)

    Somalia - caught between peace and anarchy

    Desperate times, desperate measures

    A family on the run. Fearing Islamists many civilians fled from areas controlled by al-Shabab. Famine, drought and war have caused suffering to hundreds of thousands of Somalis. Between 2010 and 2012, nearly 260,000 people died of starvation, according to UN figures.

  • Eine Frau auf einem Feld; ein AU-Soldat läuft an ihr vorbei zu seinem Fahrzeug (Foto: STUART PRICE/AFP/GettyImages)

    Somalia - caught between peace and anarchy

    Mission to protect

    The presence of AU troops in Somalia has become a usual occurrence. The first troops arrived in 2007 following a decision by the AU Security Council. Part of their mandate was to protect the former transitional government. In this picture AU troops secure the inhabitants of Afgoye, located west of Mogadishu.

  • AU-Soldaten mit einer Karte (Foto: STUART PRICE/AFP/Getty Images)

    Somalia - caught between peace and anarchy

    Reclaiming Shabab territory

    December 2012, AU troops move further inland on Islamist strongholds. A total of 17,000 soldiers are battling against al-Qaeda linked al-Shabab militants. Though more and more rural areas have been recaptured by the troops, and the security situation has generally improved in Somalia, the extremists still carry out attacks and bombings in Mogadishu.

  • Zwei Mütter mit ihren Kindern in einem von einem Bombenattentat verwüsteten Mogadischu (Foto: Mohamed Abdiwahab/AFP/Getty Images)

    Somalia - caught between peace and anarchy

    Return of the bombs

    Just when normalcy and calm were slowly returning in Mogadishu, two coordinated suicide bomb attacks next to the country’s court house killed 16 people in April 2013. Just two weeks later, a senior Somali judicial officer and a radio journalist were shot dead in the street.

  • Ein Kind schüttelt die Hand eines AU-Soldaten (Foto: STUART PRICE/AFP/Getty Images)

    Somalia - caught between peace and anarchy

    Tough road to recovery

    Despite the setbacks, Somalia is on the road to recovery. Since the beginning of 2013, many Somalis have returned back from exile. After 22 years of absence, the United Kingdom has opened a new embassy in Mogadishu. In early May, the UN decided to deploy civilian experts to Somalia. Even the pirate attacks off the Horn of Africa have sharply decreased.


    Author: Sarah Steffen / cm | Editor : Asumpta Lattus

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