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Editorial
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Human rights

Editorial – Global governance as a matter of human rights

Civil society
Claudia Warning
Ralf Tepel

Successful commitment

Strengths of German NGOs

Crisis region
Gunda Wiegmann

At their own risk

Risks aid workers run in Afghanistan

Olympic Games
Nora Sausmikat

Drop that western bias

Olympics: treat China fairly

Donor harmonisation
Tobias Kahler

“Make national systems the default option”

Donor harmonisation: “Make national systems the default option”

Donor harmonisation
Yash Tandon

Southern discomfort

Why the South Centre finds the Paris Agenda irritating

Health care
Barbara Kühlen

A focus on traditional knowledge

Health care: A focus on traditional knowledge

Food security
Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul

Ways out of the silent tsunami

How the international community can escape food scarcity

The rule of law
Michael Nienhaus

Many women are unaware of their rights

Afghanistan’s formal and informal judicial systems

Interview
Håkan Hydén

“Hope for incremental progress”

Hope for incremental progress on rule of law in China

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Poverty Reduction

The first UN Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

Tourism boom in Baltistan
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

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