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In brief
Human rights
Claudia Isabel Rittel

Unhealthy tradition

Eritrea's ban on female genital mutilation in force for one year

Migration
Claudia Isabel Rittel

“The mix matters”

Slow progress on EU migration policy

Donor harmonisation
Eleonore von Bothmer

UN still struggling with Paris Declaration

Though improving internal coordination, UN is slow in implementing Paris Declaration

World Bank
Ellen Thalman

Heading towards the Beijing Consensus

The World Bank's Chinese chief economist

Bioenergy
Silvia Richter

Ensuring sustainability

Bioenergy: Ensuring sustainability

Tillmann Elliesen

IPC favours unconditional cash transfers

IPC favours unconditional cash transfers

Tillmann Elliesen

WTO rules against US cotton subsidies

WTO rules against US cotton subsidies

Claudia Isabel Rittel

German arms exports rise to € 7.7 billion

German arms exports rise to € 7.7 billion

Development cooperation
Tillmann Elliesen

No impact

Development cooperation: No impact

UN budget
Tillmann Elliesen

Anti-corruption inquiry to continue

UN budget: Anti-corruption inquiry to continue

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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.

Reimagining African folktales
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

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