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In brief
Conflict
Andrea Herbst

Learning lessons

Lessons from instability in Northern Caucasus

Peacekeeping
Andrea Herbst

Women to the front

UN Peacekeeping: women to the front

Justice
Claudia Isabel Rittel

Moreno-Ocampo investigating in Kenya

ICC’s Moreno-Ocampo investigates in Kenya

Afghanistan
Jörn Rossberg

A late realisation

Illusions about Afghanistan’s statehood

Mexico
Claudia Isabel Rittel

The strongest drug cartel wins

Mexico’s most powerful drug cartel

The euro crisis
Ellen Thalman

The gap is narrowing

Global repercussions of Greece’s debt crisis

Schools
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Formal education must be of practical relevance

Higher school enrolment in Africa is leading to new challenges

Tillmann Elliesen

Cooperation by the World Bank and IMF assessed

Cooperation by the World Bank and IMF assessed

Taxes
Oupa Magashula
Claudia Isabel Rittel

“Focus on boosting domestic revenues”

African Tax Administration Forum to focus on boosting domestic revenues

Climate protection
Claudia Isabel Rittel

Digital dangers

Hackers steal carbon credits online

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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.

Better protection for schools in northern Nigeria
Preventing Boko Haram from recruiting young people
Evicting indigenous people
How a pedagogy of sustainability can help Africa’s future
Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges

Sustainability

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

Better protection for schools in northern Nigeria
Preventing Boko Haram from recruiting young people
Evicting indigenous people
How a pedagogy of sustainability can help Africa’s future
Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges