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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.

Marital tradition
Martina Sabra

Marriage first, love later?

Fewer arranged marriages in Arab countries

Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Criminal South Sudanese elite

New report reveals war crimes of South Sudanese officials

Women’s rights
Lea Diehl

Multi-faceted movement

Fighting against patriarchal power structures

Social media
Chief K. Masimba Biriwasha

Strangling social media

The Zimbabwe government feels threatened by social media

UNICEF
Dagmar Wolf
Dagmar Wolf

Schools save uprooted children

UNICEF demands more funding to educate and protect children and youth who are affected by crises around the world

Social inclusion
Diana Mitlin

Knowledge is power

Community-based data collection helps the residents of informal settlements to fight for their interests

Editorial
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Ambition is needed

Further urbanisation will happen, but it must be done in a smart way

Relevant reading
Franziska Schreiber

Remaking cities

Relevant reading on reinventing urbanisation

Civil-society engagement
Elizabeth Wamuni Njoroge
Isabella Bauer

“Music is my friend”

The Ghetto Classics youth orchestra from a Nairobi slum helps members develop vital skills

Slum youth
Isabella Bauer

Music for a better future

Why privileged students like to teach slum youth to play classical instruments in Nairobi

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”