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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.

Military affairs
Floreana Miesen

War technologically transformed

Drones and robots are increasingly marking warfare

Syria
Dagmar Wolf
Dagmar Wolf

Many dimensions

Scholar explains why Syria crisis is so complex and so hard to resolve

Refugee crisis
Gerd Müller

The task for this decade

Coping with the refugee crisis is developmental challenge of the decade, according to German Minister Gerd Müller

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Economics is just another social science

Economic models are less accurate than their precise maths suggest

Global Monitoring Report
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Education for all not achieved

UN evaluates achievements and shortcomings of Education for All initiative

Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Traveling in times of terror

Humanity cannot afford too much air traffic

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

USA should evaluate all government spending, not just ODA

Aid reform in the USA looks half-hearted

Greenhouse effect
Tomás Parker Cerda

Generating energy from waste

In Chile, scientists show how to convert solid waste into energy

Interview
Thomas R. Loster

“We are running out of time”

Many questions are still open after Paris climate agreement

India
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

India’s sensible, but insufficient crop insurance

Narendra Modi's scheme will hardly help the rural poor

Poverty Reduction

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

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
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

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.

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
Waithood – endless adolescence
“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”

Sustainability

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

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
Waithood – endless adolescence
“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”