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Social media tax
Edward Ronald Sekyewa

Negative impacts

Social media use in Uganda is now being taxed, affecting businesses in a negative way

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Human rights are universal, not western

Reconsidering democracy promotion

Religion
Gloria Laker Aciro Adiiki

Men of God fighting each other

Tensions are common between the leaders of Uganda’s mushrooming evangelical churches

Health
Jeffrey Moyo
Jeffrey Moyo

Cancer on the rise

Cancer is overtaking AIDS as the number one cause of death in Zimbabwe

Summer Special
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Robbed identity

Uday Prakash is an Indian fiction writer who is interested in how poor people are marginalised and exploited

Summer Special
Dagmar Wolf
Dagmar Wolf

“Just being born a woman is a provocation”

French-Moroccan novelist holds up a mirror to a hypocritical society

Summer Special
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Amusing and philosophical

A documentary road movie about the African San holds a mirror up to western society

Summer Special
Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar

Black revolutionary artist

The African-American Jean-Michel Basquiat rose from graffiti sprayer to artist of international fame

Municipal development cooperation
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Act locally – think globally

Many municipal development projects are actively involving migrants and refugees

Emergency relief
Okello Ciro

“One of the greatest tragedies of our time”

Years of civil war have left South Sudan’s citizens with hunger and displacement

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Poverty Reduction

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

Junk food in school
Mexico is facing an epidemic of obesity and overweight
How to end hunger
Why food security needs both peacebuilding and livelihood development
Eco-friendly agriculture must reduce farmers’ costs

Gender Equality

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

Justice for victims of rape
How can we infer the colour of a person’s skin?
How GIZ gets young people moving
Why sport is an effective tool for development
Addressing gender-based violence in Colombia

Governance

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

Junk food in school
Promoting media literacy to fight misinformation
Mexico is facing an epidemic of obesity and overweight
The sudden fall of Bangladesh’s autocratic prime minister
The dubious practices of digital money lenders

Sustainability

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

Junk food in school
Promoting media literacy to fight misinformation
Mexico is facing an epidemic of obesity and overweight
The sudden fall of Bangladesh’s autocratic prime minister
The dubious practices of digital money lenders