D+C 01/2006


  Editorial

Hans Dembowski:
Human right to financial services



Monitor

Hong Kong: near failure

Strengthened individual, weakened state

Budget crisis averted

Fewer landmine victims

Health services:
passing by the poor


NGOs claim Iraq
is selling oil reserves


More people infected with HIV

French NGOs take stock
of government action


Millennium Goal still a long way off


Focus:
Microfinance


“In the long run,
clients will prefer
individual loans”


Microcredit world record

Social control and group solidarity

“Prime example of pro-poor growth”

Mitigating risks in Uganda

Never too little


Tribune

The importance of Europe

Attention deficit

Neglected war victims

“Pull together”



InWEnt Forum

Soccer can eliminate prejudice

Soccer network with a social mission

One year on


Media

Make law not war

Human security:
useful survey


Anchor country China:
business perspectives


Energy policy:
a worthy introduction



Debate

Ban on torture: Europe’s responsibility

EU consensus: overdue but incomplete

Kenya: the president’s defeat

Climate protection: Kyoto progress