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In brief
Summer special
Lebogang Mokoena
Linda Engel

"You need to find your feet in a new community"

Lebogang Mokoena, a 25-year-old journalist from South Africa, has been volunteering in Berlin in a nursery school based on Waldorf/Steiner education

Women’s rights
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

International pressure for reform

El Salvador parliament debates change to the abortion law

Urban development
Sun Narin

Once there was a lake

Land conflicts in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh

Eminent scholar
Korinna Horta

Marked by displacement

Michael Cernea – a leading public intellectual from the World Bank

IDPs
Paul Kawegah

Growing fears in Kinamba

Nine years after the post-election violence, Kenyan IDPs are still living in provisional settings

Ethnic tensions
Paul Kawegah

Roots of violence

In Kenya, ethnic tensions are intertwined with long-standing disputes over land

Non-violent action
Armando Mussa Sani
Jasmina Barckhausen

Their grandparents’ legacy

Three examples of how peace activists use non-violent means to settle land conflicts in Guinea Bissau

Land grabbing
Djeralar Miankeol

Mafia-like networks

Land grabbing will not stop as long as officials are users and investors themselves

World Health Organization
Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar

Funding for clean water

New UN report assesses how to finance SDG of universal access to water, sanitation and hygiene

Urbanisation
Roli Mahajan

Crowded spaces

Masses of Indian slum dwellers must fear eviction

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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.

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
Modern dowry payment in Kenya

Governance

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

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
Waithood – endless adolescence
“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”

Sustainability

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

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
Waithood – endless adolescence
“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”