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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.

Fishing
Ali Shaaban Juma

Local fish production does not meet Tanzania’s demand

Fisheries offer investment and business opportunities in East Africa

Call for papers

Inequality – and how to deal with it

Annual PEGNet conference to focus on inequality in Zürich in September

Climate change
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Pay particular attention to the poor

Impact of extreme weather is set to get worse, so vulnerable countries must expect national incomes to decline, ADB warns

Colonial history
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

The dark side of European enlightenment

Oppressive imperial powers claimed to be spreading civilisation whilst promoting racism

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Imagine Donald Trump’s name was Ali Ibrahim

Trump’s election victory is legally valid, but his legitimacy is challenged

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Bridge schools are designed to teach world’s bottom billion

Controversy over low-cost private primary education offered by multinational group

Technology
Tobias Knobloch
Julia Manske

Responsible use of data

Opportunities and risks of user-generated and automatically-compiled data

African Union-European Union Summit
Maria Klatte

Give civil society more space

The results of the fifth EU-AU summit fell far short of expectations

New book
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

A difficult ally

A new book sheds light on Saudi Arabia’s role in the Middle East’s conflicts

Comment
Frank Masanta Jr.

Future at risk

Youth unemployment remains a key challenge in Zambia

Poverty Reduction

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

What Zanzibar's spices have to do with gender equality
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”

Gender Equality

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

What Zanzibar's spices have to do with gender equality
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

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