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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.

Gender
Gloria Laker Aciro Adiiki

Multiple loss

With the death of their husband, Ugandan women usually lose their land too

Social life
Edith Koesoemawiria

Ida’s story

Divorced women tend to be excluded from social life, and the pressure to remarry is great

Volunteers
Eva-Maria Verfürth

“It is good when walls come down”

Why international youth exchange matters in all world regions

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Wrong Austrian response to the refugee crisis

The EU cannot shield itself from global challenges

Social media
Chief K. Masimba Biriwasha

Democracy needs more than hashtags

Better-off Zimbabweans use social media to demand political change

International sports
Theresa Krinninger

Glow time

Scandals have forced anti-doping agencies to act more forcefully

Transition of power
Dagmar Wolf
Dagmar Wolf

Tough times

How long Michel Temer, Brazil’s interim president, can stay in office remains to be seen

Urban development
Regina Brück
Hermann-Josef Ostlender
Mona Plate
Gabriele Schütz-Lembach

Learning from one another

Municipal development cooperation: Aachen and Cape Town break new ground

Democracy
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Curiosity wins

Authoritarian leaders appreciate ignorant and unthinking citizens

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Ennahda can become the Muslim Democratic Party Tunisia needs

Formerly Islamist party evolves in an interesting and promising way

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