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Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

Rehan Fernando

“Dialogue of life”

Michael Rodrigo was a Catholic priest who campaigned for religious dialogue in Sri Lanka. He called his efforts the “dialogue of life”.

Multinationals
Deepak Sapra

The world’s pill factory

Health services for 80 % of humanity depend on drugs made in India

Fragile states
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

New spaces of violence in ungoverned places

Scholars assess organised violence in different forms and places

Gender
Rakieta Poyga

Changing social norms

The non-governmental organisation Bangr Nooma is fighting female genital mutilation in Burkina Faso

Female Genital Mutilation
Idah Nabateregga

100 million women affected

Women in sub-Saharan Africa are especially affected by female genital mutilation

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

When elections cause more problems than they solve

Institutions matter at least as much as votes

Primary schools
Niels Breyer

High on the agenda

The UN and the German government want more to happen in support of education

Employment
Hans-Christoph Neidlein

Digitalisation revolutionises work

Human Development Report 2015 calls for equitable and decent work for all

Civil war
Philip Thon Aleu

High expectations for peace

Implementation of the peace deal in South Sudan is imminent

Cooperation
Martin Verfürth

Apple tree versus tanks

School exchange programmes: German–Palestinian partnership during the Middle East conflict

Children
Martin Verfürth

Partnering with a Palestinian school

Hand in hand with school children in Bethlehem: the value of school partnering

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.

“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
Building bridges to reconcile religious conflicts

Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.

“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
Building bridges to reconcile religious conflicts