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Post-conflict countries

No easy answers

Hard questions and no easy answers: the dilemmas of transitional justice

Peace building

Transitional justice and post-conflict recovery

Long version – Henrietta J.A.N. Mensa-Bonsu: Hard questions concerning transitional justice

Lack of social safety net
Fidelis Adele

From valuable to vulnerable

After civil war, many old people must fend for themselves in Sierra Leone

Separation of powers
Maryam S. Khan

Ambiguous ambitions

Pakistan's Supreme Court must protect fundamental rights without overstepping its jurisdiction

Eco systems
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

Dangerous dams

Mekong dam projects endanger eco systems as well as people's livelihoods

Legal and judicial systems
Lothar Jahn

Lawyers for the poor

Legal and judicial reform is important, but must fit needs of country concerned

Development agencies

Donor obligations

Donor agencies must not only promote the rule of law, they must also be held accountable to it

Civil society
Helene Wolf

Global reach

International civil-society organisations face major challenges – and we can support them

Social policy
Michael Bünte

First Global AgeWatch Index

New Global AgeWatch Index reveals need for pension reforms in many countries

Demographics
Charles Knox-Vydmanov

Pensions for all elderly people

HelpAge warns that international agencies are paying too little attention to ageing of entire societies

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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.

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
Waithood – endless adolescence

Sustainability

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

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
Waithood – endless adolescence