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Gender Equality

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

Khushboo Srivastava

NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women

Since the Taliban seized power in August 2021, the Islamist regime has effectively erased women from public life. Femicide and other forms of gender-based violence have become more common. A recent report from a non-governmental initiative sheds light on the m...

Alcohol abuse
Ciku Kimani-Mwaniki

Unwilling and incapable of working

Alcohol abuse of men is a major challenge in central Kenya

Women’s rights
Glory Makena
Brianna Guidorzi

Partnering with women’s groups can curb gender violence

Local women’s rights groups are often overlooked when global aid organisations plan responses to humanitarian crises. This should change

Women
Jeffrey Moyo
Jeffrey Moyo

Caring for victims of sexual violence

A clinic in Bulawayo offers free medical and psycho-social care to victims of sexual violence and rape

Culture Special
Maren van Treel
Maren van Treel

A journey of self-discovery

Emancipation in an exciting journey through time

Reproductive health
Bismark Acheampong

Involving men to change gender stereotypes

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

Summer Special
Aviva Freudmann

Emancipation in Syria, both personal and political

“The other side of the river” shows a young Syrian woman’s personal liberation within the context of a wider effort to establish democracy

Gender equality
Oliver Schmidt

Women are particularly disadvantaged in the informal sector

Gender equality matters in both the formal and the informal economy, for example when it comes to finance

Gender relations
Sundus Saleemi
Sundus Saleemi

Domestic helpers are informally employed in many countries

Why men are closer to achieving a good work-life balance than women

Gender justice
Virginia Mercado
Virginia Mercado

Mexico claims to pursue a “feminist” foreign policy

In Mexico, government rhetoric on women’s rights is better than what women experience in daily life

Work
Kilasa Mtambalike

Female bus conductors on the rise

Tanzanian women are defying the gender stereotype and working as bus conductors

Poverty Reduction

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

Brief history of ARV treatment in South Africa
HIV/AIDS still haunts South Africa
An Indian student expresses her concern about global heating
Biogas innovation: Clean energy and fertiliser for Malawi’s farmers
Why we believe in our Digital Monthly

Gender Equality

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

NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Improving female entrepreneurs’ self-esteem
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Kenyan military ordered to end HIV discrimination in recruitment
A cookbook reveals the connection of diet and tradition

Governance

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

Brief history of ARV treatment in South Africa
HIV/AIDS still haunts South Africa
NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy
Voodoo allows a holistic view of the cosmos

Sustainability

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

Brief history of ARV treatment in South Africa
HIV/AIDS still haunts South Africa
NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy
Voodoo allows a holistic view of the cosmos