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Governance

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

Shakira Wafula
Katharina Wilhelm Otieno

“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”

Kenya’s youth have been taking to the streets against the government for weeks. Sports student Shakira Wafula almost involuntarily became a face of the movement. In this interview, she talks about what is driving young Kenyans.

Academic research
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Property rights drive growth

To what extent do formal property rights serve economic growth?

Central Africa
Gesine Ames
Ilona Auer-Frege

Tropical forest in peril

Ephrem Balole et al: The government of the DRC is not doing nearly enough to protect the rainforest

The Philippines
Wolfgang Moellers

Hope for Peace

Road to an autonomous Muslim region in southern Philippines remains bumpy

Print edition

Contents September issue

D+C/E+Z: Contents page of September's print edition with links to all contributions

Genocide
Floreana Miesen

Protection from atrocities

Donors’ governments have difficulties assuming the UN defined Responsibility to Protect

Bolivia
Alcides Vadillo

Making enemies talk

Promoting dialogue systematically helps to tackle Bolivian social conflicts by peaceful means

News

In brief

Failed States Index 2013, New governor for Reserve Bank of India, Gay rights activist killed in Cameroon, Re-election of Mugabe in Zimbabwe

Peace missions
Bernadette Schulz
Ruth Langer

The long haul

The African Peace and Security Architecture is already proving useful even though it is still work in progress

Comment
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Cairo conundrum

In view of Egypt's crisis, western diplomacy seems clueless

South Asia
Bettina Meier

Still estranged

Sri Lanka's civil war is over, but the government is acting in an increasingly authoritarian manner

Poverty Reduction

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

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
Why tourist arrivals in Sri Lanka peaked in 2018

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
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Governance

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

“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”
Why Kenya is on fire
Building bridges to reconcile religious conflicts
ODA under attack
Development policy must not ignore changing global realities

Sustainability

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

“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”
Why Kenya is on fire
Building bridges to reconcile religious conflicts
ODA under attack
Development policy must not ignore changing global realities