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In brief
International financial architecture
Claudia Isabel Rittel

Restore the balance of market and state

Stiglitz Commission calls for new paradigms for global economy

CIA
Claudia Isabel Rittel

Proof of torture

Will CIA torturers go unpunished?

Tax havens
Georg Stoll

“Rhetorical change”

Tax havens hurt development, says Georg Stoll of the Tax Justice Network

Sustainability
Will Swanson

Learning to Be

UNESCO Conference on sustainability and education in Bonn

Foreign policy
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Germany lacks an Africa strategy

Foreign-policy think tank bemoans lack of German strategy on Africa

Sexualised war crimes
Eleonore von Bothmer

Trauma Therapy takes time

Support for the victims of sexualised violcence in war

Drugs
Claudia Isabel Rittel

More of the same

More of the same

Water
Will Swanson

“An emergency alliance”

“An emergency alliance”

Donor principles

A role for regional institutions

A role for regional institutions

Financial crisis
Ellen Thalman

Slowdown hits world’s poor

Slowdown hits world’s poor

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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