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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.

Sexism
Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar

Media can foster or fight ­violence against women

Media needs to fight stereotypes when reporting about women

Europe / Africa
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

EU needs coherent approach to African development

For Europe, Africa spells trouble and opportunity

Comment
Erik Solheim

Need for global action

Environmental crime is destroying our planet, undermining peace and endangering our lives

Senior citizens
Raphael Mweninguwe

Witchcraft murders

Many people in Malawi believe that witchcraft causes death

Policymakers’ dilemma
Renata Buriti

Lessons from Mariana

Brazil should learn lessons of Mariana disaster and make economic development environmentally sustainable

Relevant reading
Nassir Djafari

Oil and development

Oil wealth does not necessarily prevent democratic development, researchers find

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Technocrats don't appreciate democratic deliberation

Yugoslavia's civil war was triggered by structural adjustment

Gender
Rita Schäfer

The roots of the family

The legal status of women in South Africa is better than ever before – on paper

Religion
Maxwell Suuk

Branding of Islam

The Muslim community of Ghana is worried about Islam’s bad press

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Pan Nalin, Arundhati Roy, western attention and real India

The arts tackle topics that Indian populists are uncomfortable with

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