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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.

Planned parenthood
Hedwig Diekwisch

Advice matters

Contraception tends to be only as good as the counselling that supports it

Same-sex marriage
Sebastián Vargas

All weddings are political

In Argentina, homosexual couples can marry and adopt children

LGBT rights
Sebastián Vargas

Same-sex marriage worldwide

Argentina tops the list of countries with a legislation that acknowledges sexual diversity

Editorial
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Personal growth, not personal service

What to expect of marriage

Gender-based violence
Eva Jerger

“I will never forgive”

South Africa must do more to tackle rape and sexualised violence – including in the context of traditional rituals

Health
Maxwell Suuk

Short on medicine

Ghana does not have enough HIV/AIDS medication

Gender relations
Philip Thon Aleu
Parach Mach

Risking one’s life to be able to marry

Bride-price tradition is destructive, but strong, in strife-torn South Sudan

Peacebuilding
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Corruption, a necessary evil

Corruption does not necessarily destabilise a post-conflict country

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Why Modi did not want Rajan to stay central-bank governor

Populism trumps liberalism in India

People with disabilities
Rainer Brockhaus

Let everyone benefit

The social inclusion of people with disabilities serves society as a whole

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