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Governance
Sella Oneko

Kenya’s game of personality politics

Uhuru Kenyatta is an example of Africa’s political elite being hard to topple

Syrian refugees
Dagmar Wolf
Dagmar Wolf

Women at risk

CARE demands legal routes and more protection for women and children fleeing Syria

Access to universities

#FeesMustFall

South African students demand free and decolonised education

Popular uprising
Boukari Ouoba

A triumph for young people

Burkinabe youth united to end the rule of President Blaise Compaoré

International cooperation
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Take agencies by their word

An international think tank wants aid recipients to be more assertive in relations with donor agencies

Homophobia
Jeffrey Moyo
Jeffrey Moyo

Homosexual students under threat

Homosexual university students in Zimbabwe are being harassed

Poverty
Parach Mach

Women crushing stones

In order to survive, some women in South Sudan take to cracking stones

African-German Youth Initiative
Martial De-Paul Ikounga
Eva-Maria Verfürth

“Anyone who has travelled has more to tell”

How international youth exchange can change the world

Civil Peace Service

Dreams of a better life

GIZ photo competition in Lebanon results in pictures that illustrate young people’s visions

Cooperative
Eva-Maria Bruchhaus

Successful self-help

Cooperative market secures livelihood of 900 market trader women in Abidjan

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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