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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.

Education
Niaz Asadullah
Zaki Wahhaj

Marriage instead of graduation

Girls’ school enrolment figures are good in Bangladesh, but drop-out rates are worrying

Freedom of the press
Marc Niyonkuru

Split country, hushed-up media

Exiled journalists report on human right violations in Burundi

Summer special
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Unthinkable

Voices of Violence documents atrocities women suffer at the hands of rebels in the DRC and shows how victims can cope with trauma

Transport
Susanne Neubert
Susanne Neubert

Long distances

Rural roads are essential for facilitating agriculture development in Africa

Editorial
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Rural urbanisation

How to push rural development

Terrorism
Niaz Asadullah

Look beyond private schools

Not only in view of terrorism, Bangladesh needs better schools and better governance

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

South Sudan is sliding into violence once more

Real power does not grow out of gun barrels

Summer special
Eva-Maria Verfürth

A girl walks home alone at night

A vampire western in Farsi was produced in the USA and is attracting international attention

Peace agreement
Gregor Maaß
Mario Pilz

Hope for millions of victims of Colombia’s civil war

The upcoming peace agreement in Colombia and its effects on the victims of the civil war

Summer special
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

A Muslim’s response to Islamist terrorism

A great movie about militant rule in Timbuktu

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