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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.

National budget
Raphael Mweninguwe

Stadiums versus clinics

Controversy about how to spend public money in Malawi

Sustainable Development Goals
Ulrich Nitschke
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

The ambivalence of religions

Why religion can be abused for identity politics, but may also help to achieve SDGs

Political deadlock
Fabio Andrés Díaz Pabón
Fabio Andrés Díaz Pabón

The long walk to serious talks

Venezuela needs a restart with government and opposition engaging in serious negotiations

Economics
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Nobel prize's focus on poverty is welcome, but incomplete

Micro level evidence is insufficient for rising to macro level challenges

Identity politics
Arfa Khanum Sherwani
Arfa Khanum Sherwani

Increasingly aggressive

In spite of India’s constitution, Modi government is adopting aggressive anti-Muslim policies

Human trafficking
Maxwell Suuk

False promises

Nigerian women are forced into prostitution in Ghana

Climate science
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Tell it like it is

Denialists are questioning sciences, but scholars all over the world fight back

Climate protests
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Why civil disobedience is inherently non-authoritarian

So far Extinction Rebellion seems to be living up to non-violence principles

Religion and development
Berthold Weig

Ambitious mission

Germany’s development policymakers want religious actors on board as partners for sustainable development

Security
Edward Ronald Sekyewa

Digital surveillance

What Ugandan authorities are doing to limit the impact of online opposition voices

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