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Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

“Dialogue of life”

Michael Rodrigo was a Catholic priest who campaigned for religious dialogue in Sri Lanka. He called his efforts the “dialogue of life”.

Labour relations

Nightmarish conditions

Workers in India’s informal sector use rather simple technology, so productivity is low

A bad situation turned worse

Myanmar’s Rohingya community on the run

Chinese foreign policy

Silk road across the Indian Ocean

China is building trade-related infrastructure in Africa

Gender

Men against violence against women

A Ugandan media celebrity calls on his fellow men to take a stance against gender-based violence

Cities

Not smart enough

India’s otherwise remarkable Smart Cities Mission fails to heed international governance lessons

History repeating itself

Hun Sen cracks down on critics

Rule of law

Kenya is heading for rerun elections

Kenyan voters face a confusing scenario after Supreme Court decision

Terrorism

Deadly traps

After the withdrawal of the terror militia ISIS, Benghazi is still full of mines

Maternal health

Why paramedics and midwives matter

GK, a non-governmental health-service provider in Bangladesh, knows how to reduce maternal mortality substantially

Nairobi’s top judges demand election rerun within 60 days

Kenya’s Supreme Court should explain fast why election was “invalid, null and void”

Sustainability

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