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In brief
Athletics
Isaac Sagala

Runners’ breeding ground

Athletes from all over the world attend Kenyan High Altitude Training Centre

Violent conflict
Ellen Thalman

Ethnic divisions not the problem

A “deceptive quiet” has taken over in Burundi

Renewable energy
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Emerging markets overtake industrialised states

Record investments in solar, wind and hydropower

Law
Dagmar Wolf
Dagmar Wolf

Everyday violence against the poor

How everyday violence locks poor people into poverty and what needs to be done about it

Innovation
Simon Unterschütz

Mobilising and motivating investors

GIZ’s lab of tomorrow allows experts to develop new digital solutions for developing countries’ problems

2030 Agenda
Susanne Sawadogo

Ambitious minimum goals

Experts consider SDGs more ambitious than MDGs but often too vague

Development agencies
Julia Manske

Learning from other countries

International experience of digitalising the way development agencies work

Research
Dominik Hartmann

New interdisciplinary approaches

Scientists look for alternative pathways

Peacebuilding
Dagmar Wolf
Dagmar Wolf

Lasting solutions

Germany’s Civil Peace Service supports non-violent conflict resolutions in order to build long-term peace

Sexual violence
Sheila Mysorekar
Sheila Mysorekar

No longer welcome at home

Girls abducted by terrorist group Boko Haram in Nigeria face marginalisation upon returning home

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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.

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”