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Sustainability

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

Pamela Cruz
Pamela Cruz

Mexico must include its indigenous population in the tourism sector

Mexico owes many of its tourist attractions to its wealth of indigenous communities. It is important that they are included in the country’s tourism industry in a sustainable, respectful and empowering way.

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

“The oceans are rising, and so are we”

International marches show new pattern of international civil-society activism

Social insurance
Rezaul Haque

Universal health-care coverage is feasible

Social health insurance means that people pay according to their ability and everyone gets the services they need

Identity politics
Aditi Roy Ghatak
Aditi Roy Ghatak

Lip service to the SDGs

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi insists that his government is setting an example of good governance, but not everyone agrees

Sustainability
Chinedu Moghalu

Building greening economies

Africa’s private sector must drive transformation to sustainability, but global cooperation is needed too

Youth
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Radicalism is not necessarily bad

Africa’s young generation needs opportunities, and the structural reasons of unemployment must be tackled

Sustainability
Karl Falkenberg

A European brand

Europe must change course to achieve sustainability

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Why “Marshall Plan” is a contentious term

Words have different implications in different political contexts

Multilateral affairs
Belay Begashaw

Global governance for SDGs

Peer pressure can contribute to achieving the SDGs – but more is needed

G20
Adolf Kloke-Lesch

Sustainably overstrained?

G20 needs to reaffirm the universality of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Sunni-Shia conflict
Maysam Behravesh

Saudi Arabia destroys Yemen

War in Yemen: A corollary of Saudi Arabia’s competition with Iran

Poverty Reduction

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

Fundamental human right under attack
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
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

Gender Equality

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

The fate of a Rwandan man with disability
Fundamental human right under attack
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography
Modern dowry payment in Kenya
Mexico’s first female president

Governance

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

“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”
Why Kenya is on fire
Building bridges to reconcile religious conflicts

Sustainability

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

“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”
Why Kenya is on fire
Building bridges to reconcile religious conflicts