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Relevant reading
Floreana Miesen
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Local action, global purpose

Though garbage challenges are similar all over the world, every place needs its own solutions

Planned parenthood
Hedwig Diekwisch

Advice matters

Contraception tends to be only as good as the counselling that supports it

Same-sex marriage
Sebastián Vargas

All weddings are political

In Argentina, homosexual couples can marry and adopt children

Gender relations
Philip Thon Aleu
Parach Mach

Risking one’s life to be able to marry

Bride-price tradition is destructive, but strong, in strife-torn South Sudan

People with disabilities
Rainer Brockhaus

Let everyone benefit

The social inclusion of people with disabilities serves society as a whole

Bizarre kind of sex tourism
Nilanjana Ray

Short-term relationship

In the Indian city of Hyderabad, “sheikh marriages” are never meant to last

Child marriage
Angelina Henrich
Moses Ntenga

Result of poverty

The fate of a Ugandan girl being married at the age of 15

Muslim society
Edith Koesoemawiria

Act of bravery

Financial problems are the main reason for divorce in Indonesia

Gender
Gloria Laker Aciro Adiiki

Multiple loss

With the death of their husband, Ugandan women usually lose their land too

Global governance
Nannette Lindenberg

Coordinating the willing

How international financial institutions must contribute to achieving Sustainable Development Goals

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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.

How a pedagogy of sustainability can help Africa’s future
Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
Waithood – endless adolescence
“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets

Sustainability

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

How a pedagogy of sustainability can help Africa’s future
Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
Waithood – endless adolescence
“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets