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D + C

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E + Z

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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”.

Nowadays
Okello Ciro

Escaping to unknown destination

A South Sudanese refugee's flight to Kenya

Interview

“We need advocates from the West”

A Kenyan faith leader explains why homophobia is not God's wish

Letters

Public responses

D+C/E+Z Feedback from our readers

School health
Caroline Sölle de Hilari

Healthy children

Health education should start in primary school

Human rights
Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar

Clean conscience

Civil-society activists promote socially and environmentally sound IT procurement

PEGNet
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Sustainable and socially committed

Unless rising middle classes change their attitudes, sustainable develolpment will prove impossible

Contraceptives
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

A global public good

Individual choices and the common good: challenges of family planning

Repression
Astrid Lipinsky

Government control of fertility

China's demographics: one child, two partens, four grandparents

Human-rights violations
Helena-Ulrike Marambio

Forcibly sterilised

Peru's victims of forced sterilisation were mostly indigenous women

Men
Rita Schäfer

A controversial issue

South African views on male circumcision diverge - tradition and health matter

Poverty Reduction

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

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
Rebounding tourism set to support Sri Lanka’s economic recovery

Gender Equality

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

Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography
Modern dowry payment in Kenya
Mexico’s first female president
Women-led businesses suffer most
Why you might find our newsletter useful

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