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Least developed countries
Gebru Jember Endalew

Addressing our climate reality

The least developed countries demand a robust ‘rulebook’ to implement the Paris agreement and call for adequate support

USA
Jennifer Morgan
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

“The Republican party must wake up”

How to prevent Donald Trump from causing long-term climate harm

Climate finance
Anthony Nyong

African action

Africa is the world region most vulnerable to global warming and deserves support from donor governments

Least developed countries
Saleemul Huq

“We don’t need donor money to forge ahead”

Bangladeshi scholar explains how to build climate-related capacities in least developed countries

Financing
Oliver Schmidt

Is microcredit a debt trap?

Intricate factors determine if microcredits are a success or failure

Human rights
Eric Wakabi
Joan Esther Kilande

Make contraceptives available

All people deserve to have a broad variety of family-planning options – including in rural Uganda

Sex education
Damilola Oyedele

Face the truth

Nigeria’s incidence of teenage pregnancies is unacceptably high

Education and contraception
Renate Bähr

Self-determined life for women

Societal norms and lack of equality stand in the way of modern family planning and contraception

Sex education
Angelina Henrich
Moses Ntenga

Who wants to educate a goat?

Why Ugandan teenagers need reliable information concerning sex and reproductive he

Maternal mortality
Barbara Kühlen

Midwifery is part of the culture

The risk of motherhood – and how traditional birth attendants can help

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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.

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”