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Private education
Sivali Ranawana
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

“Fierce competition”

Sri Lankan evaluator explains why private education has recently been spreading fast in South Asia

Inequality
Alphonce Shiundu
Alphonce Shiundu

Dissatisfaction with “free” public education

In Kenya, even poor parents send their kids to private schools

Education
Cema Tork

Overrated model

Recent admissions scandal reveals inequalities and corruption in US American education

Children’s rights
Manfred Liebel

Bolivia bows to international pressure

Bolivia abandons pioneering legal reform for working children

Organic farming
Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk

Feeding 10 billion people

Proponents say that organic farming can feed humanity

Private education
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Some people have no other choice

Relevant reading on why private education can make a difference in developing countries

Higher education
Karim Okanla
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

From boom to bust

Why Houdegbe North American University Benin once looked promising, but is no longer operational

Honduras
Rita Trautmann
Dennis Muñoz

Hoping for a better future

Poverty, crime and poor governance are causing people to flee in droves from Honduras

EU policy
Ibrahim Manzo Diallo
Katja Dombrowski
Katja Dombrowski

“The flow has not stopped”

Agadez in Niger is a transit hub for many African refugees – both on the way north and on the way back

Refugees in Lebanon
Mona Naggar
Mona Naggar

Poverty and a lack of rights

Lebanon has taken in over a million refugees and is struggling with many problems

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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.

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.

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”