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Governance

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

Building bridges to reconcile religious conflicts

Buddhism is Sri Lanka’s main religion, but Christianity, Hinduism and Islam also have a large following. The country has experienced several conflicts over the last five decades, influenced by factors such as nationalism and economic policy, but not least by r...

Summer Special

Rahman Abbas: South Asian lessons from Nazi Holocaust

Indian author’s dystopian novel warns of harm that identity politics may cause

Human rights

Legal frameworks to protect disabled people

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the UN’s 2030 Agenda guarantee rights to protection and participation

Discrimination

Development cooperation must become more inclusive

Policy makers and civil society must recognise inclusion as a cross-cutting task – and so must international development and humanitarian relief

Culture Special

A journey of self-discovery

Emancipation in an exciting journey through time

Reproductive health

Involving men to change gender stereotypes

In many African countries males are often unwilling to get involved in reproductive health issues of their partners

Blogpost

Why Putin’s imperialist war must be condemned

Russia’s attack on Ukraine fundamentally differs from recent western-led military campaigns

Covid-19

Position of the WHO at the beginning of the pandemic

Nationalist and authoritarian tendencies call into question the principle of human rights-based multilateralism

WHO

WHO deserves more independence and more money

National politics often hamper multilateral WHO efforts – as Covid-19 has clearly showed

Grain and oil prices

What Ukraine war has meant for Libya so far

When world-market prices soared, oil production went down in strife-torn North African country

Violence

Thousands of people missing in Mexico

Gang violence and the war on drugs costs many lives every day in Mexico and causes a lot of suffering