Finland has been a world leader in media literacy for many years. Children as young as kindergarten age are being prepared for the disinformation they will encounter online. Will they succeed in combating fake news?

Between 2015 and 2024, Nepal achieved the greatest Sustainable Development Goals progress of any country in the East and Southeast Asia region. Nevertheless, the country still has a long way to go to reach its goals.

Addis Ababa is a prime example of how a city can change when walking and cycling are taken seriously. Over the past few years, the capital of Ethiopia has invested heavily in non-motorised transport as part of its wider urban transformation.

Where traditional norms prevail, girls’ rights tend to be neglected

Violence continues to spiral in the West Bank. For many frustrated young Palestinians, the search for justice leads to radicalisation.

Cuts to international aid funding have plunged Kakuma, one of the world’s largest refugee camps in Kenya, into a worsening humanitarian crisis. With food rations reduced to a fraction of the minimum requirement, residents face an impossible choice.

Humour can be a powerful and non-violent tactic for protesting against authoritarian regimes. It has been used effectively in countries from Serbia to Thailand.

Women who have been subjected to female genital mutilation often have severe complications during childbirth

The global wave of autocratisation requires a change in the promotion of democracy

If you wonder why democracy looks fragile in the USA and other high-income countries, “Offshore – Stealth wealth and the new colonialism” by Brooke Harrington is a book you should read.

In the early 20th century Burundi was a German colony – traces of that past can still be seen

Macarena Sáez of Human Rights Watch explains why the fight for women’s rights is also a fight for democracy – and how women around the world are uniting to move forward.

With the FfD4 on its way, the call for reform of the global financial architecture is more urgent than ever – especially for Africa, which remains structurally disadvantaged within a system established decades ago without its participation.

Spain’s colonial rule has left marks on Mexico

Up to now, life in Cameroon is determined by whether one is Francophone or Anglophone. The so-called “Anglophone crisis” surrounding the independence aspirations of the part of the country that was once a British colony is claiming more and more victims.

Walking and cycling are the most affordable, climate friendly and inclusive ways to move through cities, yet they remain undervalued. As motorisation rates rise across the globe, the need to protect and expand active mobility has never been greater.

The Maasai know how to treat malaria with bark. Like many other Indigenous groups, they have immense medical knowledge. However, like the entire Maasai way of life, this knowledge is gradually being lost due to forced resettlement for the sake of profit.

Migrant labourers make up the majority of the working population in the Gulf States. More and more workers are coming to Riyadh, Doha or Dubai from Africa. We spoke with two people who left Kenya for the Gulf.

The Tanzanian government is systematically disenfranchising the Maasai in Ngorongoro. Most recently, all polling stations there were closed, and voters were assigned to stations in an area 600 kilometres away.

Chittagong in Bangladesh is one of the ten fastest-sinking coastal cities in the world.