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Domestic violence
Damilola Oyedele

Miles apart, ­sisters in pain

Domestic violence and sexual abuse are found all over the world – Nigeria and India being prime examples

Strategies
Stephan Klingebiel
Sebastian Paulo
Heiner Janus

Beyond aid – new ways forward?

Beyond aid: The need to redesign development cooperation

Relevant reading
Nadja Meisterhans

An alternative model of governance

The post-2015 agenda should be based on an alternative model of global governance

Poverty
Hildegard Lingnau
Hildegard Lingnau

Redefining poverty

Valentin Lang and Hildegard Lingnau: The post-2015 agenda needs to redefine poverty and measure it in new ways

Inclusion
Emma Samman
Laura Rodriguez Takeuchi
Esther Sommer

One billion people overlooked

Since disability affects more than 1 billion people, the issue belongs on the post-2015 agenda

Inequality
Paul Quintos

Leave no one behind, let no one get away

Why reducing inequality is the key to fighting poverty and making development sustainable

Multilateral affairs
Ronald Mangani

Value for money

Post 2015, the developing countries must improve governance, and the rich world must do more to provide global public goods

Urban infrastructure
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Public transport for 30 million people

Chinese megacity Chongqing wants to become a model for light-rail traffic

Non-traditional agriculture
Sebastián Artigas

Caring about cannabis

Marihuana production is legal in Uruguay, offering farmers new sources of income

Civil society
Friedrich Kaufmann
Winfried Borowczak

Cooperation, not ­instrumentalisation

Support for civil society in developing countries is not a trivial matter

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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.

Evicting indigenous people
How a pedagogy of sustainability can help Africa’s future
Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
Waithood – endless adolescence
“Dialogue of life”

Sustainability

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

Evicting indigenous people
How a pedagogy of sustainability can help Africa’s future
Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
Waithood – endless adolescence
“Dialogue of life”