Category: Featured
As Gold Prices Soar, Communities Pay the Price in Poisoned Rivers, Vanishing Forests and Organized Crime
The sweltering heat inside a London conference hall did not deter Indigenous leader Jackeline Mendoza Díaz from condemning the sheer destruction of the…
Three years of War in Sudan: A Crisis the World Can’t Ignore
Three years into the war in Sudan, survivors and human rights defenders are struggling to respond to overwhelming needs amid widespread violence, displacement,…
Autonomous Weapons: The Wave of the Future in Military Conflicts Worldwide
As the international community continues to weigh the good, the bad and the deadly in artificial intelligence (AI), which is spreading far and…
How Farmers Are Learning About Restoring Soils and Scaling Agroecology in Kenya
At Yumbuni Village in Kenya’s Makueni County, farmers from Vihiga and Kakamega counties have travelled over 560 kilometres to join their colleagues in…
Pride: Once Again a Protest
On the morning of 28 June, riot police sealed off Taksim Square with iron barriers and enforced bans on all weekend gatherings in…
Landmark Ruling Could Redefine Divorced Women’s Property Rights in Pakistan
A landmark Islamabad High Court ruling that recognised marriage as an economic partnership and awarded a divorced woman an equal share of assets…
Arab Regions Remain the Most Underrepresented in the Global Trade System
Despite the importance of international trade as an engine for economic growth and development, only fourteen of the twenty-two Arab states are members…
Europe’s Funding Question Puts Tanzania’s Fragile Democracy on Trial
Every evening just before sunset, Salima Kitwana hobbles into her backyard holding a photograph. In the picture, her son Hemedi, wearing a green…
MEXICO: ‘Our Call for Justice for Our Missing Loved Ones Must Reach the World Just as World Cup Goals Do’
CIVICUS speaks about efforts to use the 2026 FIFA World Cup to highlight Mexico’s enforced disappearance crisis with Ana Enamorado, a Honduran…
The Next UN Secretary-General Must Break Not Only the Glass Ceiling, but Also the Culture of Patronage
As the United Nations (UN) Security Council prepares for its first round of closed-door straw polls this month to select the tenth Secretary-General,…
