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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.

Neglected disease
Olaf Hirschmann
Herman Joseph Kawuma

Radio Wa is talking health

Media support can boost medical services’ outreach

Summer special
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Girl’s destiny

Guatemalan-French movie Ixcanul tells the sad but realistic story of a Mayan girl unable to escape tradition and external control

Rural life
Boro Baski
Boro Baski

Lost in translation

Missionaries have contributed to disrupting Adivasi traditions, but helped to save heritage as well

Transport
Humphrey Nkonde

Death on the roads

Zambia’s roads are dangerous for pedestrians and drivers alike

Rural life
Boro Baski
Boro Baski

Saving our heritage

Protection of Adivasi culture and traditions helps members of India’s tribal communities to cope with change

Youth criminality
Victor Puluc

“Violence and grief every day”

How poverty and broken families broaden the circle of youth gangs in Guatemala

Global responsibility
Armin Paasch

Low ambitions

Draft version of Germany’s action plan on business and human rights disappoints NGOs

Fatherhood
Sonwabiso Ngcowa

Missing role model

Too many children grow up without a father assuming responsibility for parenting in South Africa

Relevant reading
Floreana Miesen
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Local action, global purpose

Though garbage challenges are similar all over the world, every place needs its own solutions

Planned parenthood
Hedwig Diekwisch

E-learning to improve counselling

New E-learning course for contraceptive counsellors

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