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Human civilisation
Heide Hackmann
Dirk Messner

Why we need a UN charter

What needs to be done so digitalisation will drive, not thwart the transformation to sustainability

Blockchain
Piet Kleffmann

Blockchain technology for partnerships at eye-level

A new digital platform designed by KfW facilitates transparent and secure implementation of ODA

US politics
Jonathan Brenneman

Anti-Semitic Zionists

How Evangelicals have usurped Jewish American’s support for Israel

Ethno-religious identities
Anupama Ranawana-Collie
Arjuna Ranawana

Tinged with racism

The brother of Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka’s former president, wants to be elected head of state and is wooing a radicalised Buddhist base

Political influence
Carlos Albuquerque

Playing with religious identity

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro won the election thanks to the votes of conservative Christians

Syncretism
Samir Abi

Religious pluralism serves peace

Africans practise a mixture of traditional animist beliefs and monotheistic religion

Rainforest
Carmen Josse

Amazon region in danger

The fires in the Amazon region have drawn global attention to this endangered ecosystem

Republica 2019
Monika Hellstern

Technology is no panacea

Muted techno-optimism at this year’s digital conference Republica in Berlin

Middle East
Maysam Behravesh

The sectarian dimension

Both Iran and Saudi Arabia are instrumentalising religious doctrines for political purposes

Retail shopping
Sophia Waweru
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Solving the last-mile problem

How an innovative online retailer is making life easier for underserved rural communities in Kenya

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Poverty Reduction

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

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
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”

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.

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”
Why Kenya is on fire

Sustainability

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

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”
Why Kenya is on fire