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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.

Collective memories
Miriam Modalal
Dalilah Reuben-Shemia

Legacy of wounds

Peace-work contributes to a healing process of collective trauma in Lebanon

Land ownership
Henning Melber

How the first redistribution attempt failed

The policy proposed by Namibia’s first National Land Reform Conference in the early 1990s never took off

Land restitution
Henning Melber

Righting a wrong

To make amends for colonial-era crimes, Germany should fund Namibian land restitution

Journalism
Qaabata Boru

Giving refugees a voice

An independent refugee-led online newspaper keeps residents of the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya informed

Idi Amin photo exhibition
Isabella Bauer

Facets of a despot

A photo exhibition marks a first tentative attempt by Ugandans to come to terms with the past under Idi Amin

Recurring trauma
Arfa Khanum Sherwani
Arfa Khanum Sherwani
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Feelings of aggravation

The history of anti-Muslim violence in India

International Criminal Court
Darleen Seda

Revisiting the peace versus justice debate

Demands for criminal accountability can be an obstacle to peace

Our view
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Belonging together

Nations are nothing natural, but human-made “imagined communities”

Distance learning
Javier A. Cisterna Figueroa

Failing grades

Chile’s teachers give low grades for the early results of online classes for schoolchildren

Infrastructure
Katie Cashman

Build back better

IEA wants stimulus money to drive climate protection

Poverty Reduction

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

“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
Mexico’s first female president

Gender Equality

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

Modern dowry payment in Kenya
Mexico’s first female president
Women-led businesses suffer most
Why you might find our newsletter useful
Why the acronym BIPoC does not have to explain anything

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