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Governance

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

Rehan Fernando

“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”.

Human rights
Eric Wakabi
Joan Esther Kilande

Make contraceptives available

All people deserve to have a broad variety of family-planning options – including in rural Uganda

Youth
Damilola Oyedele

The fates of two teenage mothers

In Nigeria, many girls’ lives are ruined by early pregnancy

Sex education
Damilola Oyedele

Face the truth

Nigeria’s incidence of teenage pregnancies is unacceptably high

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Venezuela’s escalating crisis

Foreign mediation would be useful in Caracas – but unlikely to happen

Clothing
Maxwell Suuk

Traditional dress

Ghanaians are encouraged to wear traditional clothes each Friday

Right-wing populism
Manoj K. Jha

Demonising others

Post-truth populists show no respect for facts and want everyone to believe that public opinion matters more than empirical reality

Women's health
Idah Nabateregga

Dangerous for mothers and babies

Women who have been subjected to female genital mutilation often have severe complications during childbirth

USA
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

When ideology trumps evidence

How foreign-policy debate is changing in the USA

Saudi Arabia
Nassir Djafari

How much reform can the kingdom take?

King Salman of Saudi Arabia announced a comprehensive reform programme, whether it will go smoothly is doubtful

Teenager pregnancies
Angelina Henrich
Moses Ntenga

Devastating consequences

In Uganda, teenage pregnancies are causing lots of suffering

Poverty Reduction

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

What Zanzibar's spices have to do with gender equality
Fundamental human right under attack
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”

Gender Equality

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

What Zanzibar's spices have to do with gender equality
The fate of a Rwandan man with disability
Fundamental human right under attack
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography
Modern dowry payment in Kenya

Governance

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

“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”
Why Kenya is on fire
Building bridges to reconcile religious conflicts

Sustainability

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

“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”
Why Kenya is on fire
Building bridges to reconcile religious conflicts