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World Happiness Report 2024

Global trends

Around the globe, inequality regarding happiness is deepening

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by Khushboo Srivastava
On International Women’s Day 2019, Afghan artists painted this graffiti on the wall of the Ministry of Women’s Affairs, which was dissolved by the Taliban in 2021. The premises are now home to the “Ministry of Praying and Instructing, Promoting Virtue, and Preventing Vice”, which oversees the implementation of Islamic law.

Women in Afghanistan

“Even that red line no longer exists”

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by Selmin Çalışkan
by Eva-Maria Verfürth
Our author and a friend at their graduation ceremony at Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

Studying abroad

International degrees, national development

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by Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi
Ronald Ssegujja Ssekandi
“Over-the-Counter” by Taabu E Munyoki, part of the consumption-critical exhibition MORE IS MORE in Nairobi, Kibera Arts District.

Our view

The era of hubristic capitalism

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by Hans Dembowski
The Islamist regime is enforcing a repressive dress code, including in Kabul.

Gender justice

NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women

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by Khushboo Srivastava
As many as 250 people are accommodated in these hangars. There is no protected area for women – sexual assaults are a regular occurrence.

Humanitarian crisis

Risking collapse

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by Fabian Böckler

University education

More financial support for college students

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by Mathias Galabuzi

Fighting misinformation

Promoting media literacy to fight misinformation

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by Lungelo Ndhlovu
2022: Activists in Kolkata protest against the early release of men convicted of a brutal rape.

Film

Justice for victims of rape

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by Konstantin Auwärter
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