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Technology
Tobias Knobloch
Julia Manske

Responsible use of data

Opportunities and risks of user-generated and automatically-compiled data

SADC
Henning Melber

Nostalgia and empty promises

Populism is common in Southern Africa, where former liberation movements have become dominant political parties

Education
Mona Naggar
Mona Naggar

Hope and employment

Young Palestinians living in Lebanon lack career opportunities, and vocational training can help

Gender relations
Roli Mahajan

U-shaped curve

Young Indian women have great professional aspirations, but many dreams will not come true

Higher learning
Javier A. Cisterna Figueroa

“Education must not be for sale”

Chile’s poor youth suffer in the privatised education system

Social cash transfers
Bernd Schubert

Welfare payments are no longer taboo

Insights from Kalomo, Zambia revolutionise social protection in Africa

Egypt
Basma El-Mahdy

Still aspiring to ­change the world

Six years after the Arab spring, things look worse than ever to young Egyptians

Popular uprising
Boukari Ouoba

A triumph for young people

Burkinabe youth united to end the rule of President Blaise Compaoré

Development policy
Claudio Maggi C.

Boosting innovation together

How European development policy could promote innovation in Latin America

Global warming
Leena Srivastava
Arun Kansal

The need to ratchet

To prevent catastrophic climate change, the pledges of the Paris Agreement must be scaled up

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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”