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Regierungsführung
Our view
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

The crucial development challenge

To achieve the SDGs, humankind needs strong and competent institutions at national as well as supranational levels

“Development”
Aram Ziai
Julia Schöneberg

False promises, questionable term

The term “development” makes false promises and perpetuates colonial dominance thinking

Our view
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Belonging together

Nations are nothing natural, but human-made “imagined communities”

Democratic governance
Raphael Mweninguwe

Great expectations

Malawi’s new president must fight corruption, stimulate the economy and get a grip on Covid-19

Propaganda
Jorge Soares

Nothing is true

Why populists depend on systematical disinformation

Populist governance
Jorge Soares

Lying about Brazil’s forests

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro falsely says deforestation is not a problem

Nature conservation
Nicolas Zuël
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Threatened by invasive species

A private initiative is trying to rebuild endemic forest in Mauritius

Elections
Mireille Kanyange
Mireille Kanyange

Protected by God

Burundi has held elections – without much consideration of the corona pandemic

Governance
Riad Sultan
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

“Digitalisation and advanced technologies must be applied”

Mauritius’ water-supply problems result from faulty bad governance

Afghanistan
Nawid Paigham

Unfinished business

The hasty withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan is likely to result in a mess

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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.

The literary power of Black women writers
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

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”