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Governance

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

Roli Mahajan

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges

To reap a demographic dividend, India needs more and better job opportunities. In spite of high growth rates, masses of people are being left behind – and young people in particular struggle to find good jobs.

Governance
Humphrey Nkonde

Monitoring elections online

Social media, the internet and governance in Zambia

Cooperative
Eva-Maria Bruchhaus

Successful self-help

Cooperative market secures livelihood of 900 market trader women in Abidjan

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Turkey’s government cracks down on Cumhuriyet

Silencing the media is a sign of weakness

Microfinance
Eva-Maria Bruchhaus

Flexible and disciplined

As self-organised savings communities, “tontines” are an example of economic, social and cultural solidarity in West Africa

World trade
Armin Paasch

The fig-leaf approach to human rights

EU trade policies do not take human rights in to account appropriately

Genocide
Jeffrey Moyo
Jeffrey Moyo

Outlawing victims of massacres

Victims of the 1980s massacres in Zimbabwe are often denied their papers

Education
Edith Koesoemawiria

Boatloads of books

Grassroots initiatives are ensuring that children have access to books in some Indonesian villages

weltwärts volunteers
Daniel Schönig
Yannik Bessei

“We don’t need much money”

Leader of German NGO discusses project in Ecuador with weltwärts volunteer

Editorial
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Government responsibility

The fight against infectious diseases is a task for national governments and the international community

United Nations
Eva Dick

Mixed results

New Urban Agenda adopted by UN conference Habitat III in Quito in October

Poverty Reduction

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

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
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

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.

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
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”

Sustainability

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

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
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”