• August: Youth engagement for global action

    We are giving the stage to young people from across the world to highlight the issues they are fighting for and how they can contribute to global...


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  • June: Education under pressure

    The education experts we spoke to in this month's issue agree: education is under pressure, and we simply cannot go back to the way things were.


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  • May: The crucial role of social security

    Social security as an inviolable human right. But the global crisis that we face today reveals we are still not able to realize it as such.


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  • April: The digital divide

    Can we ensure that digitalization will always be socially just?


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