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Governance

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

Katharina Wilhelm Otieno

Waithood – endless adolescence

The future belongs to young people. They must be empowered to assume responsibility. Far too often, however, they lack prospects. It is encouraging that, all over the world, many want to take their fate into their own hands.

Governance
Sella Oneko

Kenya’s game of personality politics

Uhuru Kenyatta is an example of Africa’s political elite being hard to topple

Activism
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Populists threaten human rights

Human Rights Watch warns of dangerous international trend to strongman rule

Sahel
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Lack of statehood

Experts call for more statehood and better institutions to stabilise the Sahel region

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Revolutionary romanticism is misleading

Why Costa Rica beats Cuba

Authoritarianism
Nora Sausmikat

Populism in the Middle Kingdom

Xi Jinping is centralising government power and reversing progress towards the rule of law in China

War orphans
Philip Thon Aleu

Single refugee mothers

With husbands at war or dead, refugee mothers struggle to feed their children

Mexico
Virginia Mercado
Virginia Mercado

Charisma is not enough

In Mexico, candidates on the right and left present themselves as men of the people

USA – Mexico
Virginia Mercado
Virginia Mercado

The fence is already up

Trump’s call for a wall is straining the relationship between the US and Mexico

Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Don’t forget the Yemenis

Humanitarian crisis in Yemen keeps worsening

Extrajudicial killings
Alan C. Robles
Alan C. Robles

National suicide

President Duterte linked to unprecedented extrajudicial killings in the Philippines

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.

Waithood – endless adolescence
“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

Sustainability

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

Waithood – endless adolescence
“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