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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”.

Multilateral affairs
Antonio Tujan Jr.

Unequal partners

INGOs are northern-based agencies claiming to speak for marginalised people in the global south

Social security
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

African pension patterns

World Bank study assesses old-age protection in sub-Saharan Africa

Comment
Ingy Salama

Press freedom restricted

Egypt’s new anti-terrorism curbs press freedom, though the government denies that impact

Human Rights
Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar

“For us, there is only death”

Indigenous environment activists are at risk all over the world

International NGOs
Charlotte Dany
Andrea Schneiker

Experts, advocates and activists

International NGOs play various roles in global politics; their scope for influence varies as do their legitimacy problems

Repression of NGOs
Aditi Roy Ghatak
Aditi Roy Ghatak

New Indian authoritarianism

Despite their benefit for Indian society, the government restricts the space of international NGOs

Lebanon
Mona Naggar
Mona Naggar

Faith-based parliament

Lebanon is a parliamentary democracy with strong confessional characteristics

Comment
Cadima Tania

Women’s lost right

Another setback for Chile’s women’s fight for the right to therapeutic abortion

Confessionalisation
Thomas Birringer

Shiites and Sunnis in political Islam

Confessionalisation fuels the conflicts within political Islam

Comment
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

New silk road

Welcome China’s international infrastructure ambitions and discourage sabre-rattling

Poverty Reduction

The first UN Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

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”
Mexico must include its indigenous population in the tourism sector

Gender Equality

In order to achieve gender equality, it is necessary to empower women and girls.

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
Mexico’s first female president

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