Category: Featured
Fiscal Reform Needs More Than Strong Finance Ministries
In the human body, connective tissue rarely gets the attention given to the heart, lungs or brain. But without it, even the strongest…
Systematic Vilification of Russian LGBTQ+ Community Pushes Them Underground
LGBTQ+ people in Russia are being forced to increasingly use self-censoring strategies in their daily lives as they struggle with systemic vulnerability, one…
The Last Bottle of Halothane: Why Africa Cannot Wait
Global health has a habit of mobilizing around the visible and the dramatic. Ebola, malaria, and Mpox have all dominated headlines related to…
Erdoğan’s Race to Avoid Orbán’s Fate
When Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán lost by a landslide to a unified opposition in April, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was watching….
Nuclear Nonproliferation Outcomes Stall in Backdrop of Geopolitical Strife
On principle, the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons is an issue that unites the international community. But for a select few states, these principles…
The End of the Gulf Model?
The German government, along with a number of other countries, are currently organising flights to evacuate travellers and influencers stranded in the Gulf…
Health Emerges as a Strategic Frontline for Africa Ahead of Bonn Climate Conference
Africa contributes the least to global greenhouse gas emissions, yet it faces some of the world’s most severe climate-related health impacts. Several realities…
Africa Needs a Radical Plan to Tackle 15M Youth Job Crisis
Africa has no problem with ideas, but the struggle is in how to implement them, leaders said at an inaugural forum convened to…
BOTSWANA: ‘Court Rulings Matter, but It’s Sustained Civic Action That Turns Them into Real Protection’
CIVICUS discusses Botswana’s decriminalisation of same-sex relations with Faith Gunda, a Botswana-based law student and human rights defender, a member of the…
Papua New Guinea Bets on Indigenous Communities to Protect 700,000 Hectares of Highlands
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has approved USD 6.4 million for a new conservation initiative in Papua New Guinea that seeks to protect…
