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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”.

Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

What does it take to save a person’s eyesight?

Health challenges in rural Ethiopia

Supporting civil society
Meike Geppert

Making democratic principles tangible

Shrinking spaces call for new support strategies

Diabetes
Sonja Peteranderl

Mexico’s sugar war

Soft-drink manufacturers fight policies that serve to curb excessive sugar consumption

Garment production
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Glimmers of hope

In Bangladesh´s garment industry there are entrepreneurs who are improving working condition for their staff

Education
Humphrey Nkonde

No money, no schoolbooks

Zambia’s cash problems affect the education sector negatively

Farming
Belay Begashaw

Drought is the new normal

East Africa is now obviously a low-rainfall area, so the region must adapt to climage change

India
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Brutally divisive

That Prime Minister Modi’s made Yogi Adityanath chief minister of Uttar Pradesh is proof of his supremacist extremism

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

In Turkey and elsewhere, democracy is not just majority rule

Universal principles require international monitoring

Authoritarianism
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Post-referendum repression

After a close – and disputed – referendum victory, Turkey’s government is running yet more purges of the police and civil service

International cooperation
Frannie Leautier

Continent of opportunity

The African Development Bank considers the German proposal to launch a Marshall Plan a step in the right direction

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