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Media
Gloria Laker Aciro Adiiki

Uganda has benefited from peace journalism

Ugandan media are taking effective approaches to promoting peace

Women’s rights
Humaira Rasuli
Saifora Paktiss

Empower, support and provide resources

The main problems for Afghan women are lack of security, insufficient involvement in the reconciliation process and lack of access to an unbiased just

Aid Effectiveness
Peter Lanzet

Rekindling interest in effectiveness

Better cooperation is needed to boost effectiveness, and civil society agencies have a role to play

USA – Mexico
Virginia Mercado
Virginia Mercado

The fence is already up

Trump’s call for a wall is straining the relationship between the US and Mexico

Globalisation
Jürgen Wiemann

Growing inequality and environmental dangers

Joint EADI-Nordic conference will assess challenges of globalisation in Bergen in August

Extrajudicial killings
Alan C. Robles
Alan C. Robles

National suicide

President Duterte linked to unprecedented extrajudicial killings in the Philippines

North Africa
Ingy Salama

Defining the nation

President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s idea of the Egyptian nation does not include every Egyptian

Europe
Daniel Bax

Divided continent

The rise of right-wing populism is throwing Europe off-balance

Endangered pluralism
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Damaged democracy

Assessing the meaning of populism and how the phenomenon relates to technocratic governance

Human rights
Reverend Peter Tibi

„Sliding towards genocide“

Urgent action is needed in South Sudan to deescalate the violent conflict

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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”