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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.

Health care
Karoline Lerche

Medicine for all

Gavi and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria are saving millions of lives

Food security
Lea Diehl

Better figures

Global Hunger Index 2016 reckons that things have improved – but almost 800 million people still suffer hunger

International cooperation
Lea Diehl

Dealing with authoritarian governments

Universal governance standards are not in force everywhere, but are useful nevertheless

Neglected disease
Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar

Life-saving rubber boots

Thailand’s third most deadly disease is melioidosis

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Self-serving African presidents back off from ICC

Out-dated idea of sovereignty is not anti-imperialist

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Trump is dragging US democracy down into the dirt

Strongman attitudes and presidential aspirations

Medical research
Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar

Diseases of the poor

Neglected tropical diseases affect more than a billion people worldwide

Health
Lea Diehl

Global health challenge

Experts want poor people in tropical countries to benefit from advances in medical technology

Pandemic threat
Edith Koesoemawiria

The global threat of dengue

390 million people in more than 120 countries were infected with dengue in 2014

Habitat III
D+C / E+Z

KfW supplement: "Shaping urbanisation"

Development Bank discusses strategic approaches

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”