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Long-term refugees
Raphael Sungu Raphael Sungu

Frozen lives

For long-term refugees in Kenya, education is the only path towards a better future

Multinationals
Deepak Sapra

The world’s pill factory

Health services for 80 % of humanity depend on drugs made in India

Gender
Rakieta Poyga

Changing social norms

The non-governmental organisation Bangr Nooma is fighting female genital mutilation in Burkina Faso

Labour rights
Niaz Asadullah
Zaki Wahhaj

Minimum wage attracts girls to factories

Higher wages in Bangladesh’s garments sector mean better income but push girls into work as child seamstresses

Children
Martin Verfürth

Partnering with a Palestinian school

Hand in hand with school children in Bethlehem: the value of school partnering

Koran schools
Mona Naggar
Mona Naggar

More than holy scriptures

Koran schools are the provider of religious education for children in Lebanon

Primary schools
Linda Vierecke
Christoph Peters

Bilingual education

Why many Bolivian primary schools use two languages in the classroom

Post-war reconstruction
Fidelis Adele

“Ten exercise books for 50 pupils”

Why Sierra Leone did not achieve the Millennium Development Goal of universal primary-school enrolment

Charity School
Frank Masanta Jr.
Kenneth Muller

Education for all children

How a social entrepreneur is trying to improve the situation of disadvantaged school children in Lusaka

Relevant reading
Romina Ranke

New transnational networks

NGOs are increasingly using the internet for international networking

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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