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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.

Higher learning
Javier A. Cisterna Figueroa

“Education must not be for sale”

Chile’s poor youth suffer in the privatised education system

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Ebola vaccine proven effective in clinical trial

This public-health success was driven by international, multi-sector cooperation rather than by market forces

Comment
Jong Woo Kang

Lessons from the USA

The widening gap between national and individual well-being might explain a large part of the US election results

eHealth Africa

Fighting polio in spite of ­insurgency

Vaccination programme in Nigeria’s crisis-torn Borno state

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Elections matter – in Gambia, Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire

ECOWAS, the Economic Community of West African States, is becoming a beacon of democracy

Africa
Ndongo Samba Sylla
Ndongo Samba Sylla

Disasters waiting to happen

Failure to expand formal youth employment in Africa will mean more unrest, more migration, more crime and more religious extremism

Gender
Basma El-Mahdy

Women want careers

Young Egyptian women do not accept traditional family roles

Egypt
Basma El-Mahdy

Still aspiring to ­change the world

Six years after the Arab spring, things look worse than ever to young Egyptians

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

International community should act to prevent atrocities

Signs of imminent genocide in South Sudan

Popular uprising
Boukari Ouoba

A triumph for young people

Burkinabe youth united to end the rule of President Blaise Compaoré

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