Africa

How will development policy change in the “polycrisis”?

The “polycrisis” triggered by COVID-19 is a turning point. This polycrisis presents itself as a global health crisis, but it is overlaid with challenges that already existed before COVID-19. These include increasing global inequalities, migration issues, increasing social struggles, primacy

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Plädoyer für mehr Entwicklungspolitik

Wir befinden uns inmitten einer großen Zäsur, die sich darauf auswirkt, wie wir die Welt sehen und unsere Rolle darin verstehen. Die COVID-19 Pandemie ist ein Anstoß eines globalen Transformationsprozesses, in dem sich vieles neu ordnet und zusammensetzt. Dieser Moment

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The Call to Uphold Human Rights

As 2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of UDHR, it is rather timely to reflect – as a community and as an individual – upon the gains and lapses of the implementation of the Declaration amidst the criticisms

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Youth unemployment on the rise

Benjamin Disraeli once mentioned that the “youth of a nation are the trustees of posterity”. Given an international landscape whereby the international youth unemployment rate is reported to be high and has been fluctuating in a relatively similar range for

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