Category: Featured
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,…
Why Pastoral Production Requires Regional Coordination, Harmonised Policy
At the 64th sessions of the Subsidiary Bodies (SB64) under the UNFCCC in Bonn, Germany, the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform (LCIPP)…
AI Helping Modernize Trade Across Asia and the Pacific, Though Adoption Gaps Remain
Artificial intelligence is reshaping trade processes across Asia and the Pacific. However, despite growing interest, most economies have yet to deploy the technology…
Invasive Prickly Pear Turned into Food, Clean Energy Source
An international academic partnership is helping turn one of Laikipia County’s most destructive and invasive plants, the prickly pear cactus (Opuntia stricta), into…
Feeding Africa: Women Farmers Key to Ending Hunger
Building resilient food systems in Africa begin with inclusive agriculture. …
Roma Need Special Consideration After Ukraine War is Over
Governments, donors, NGOs, development banks and businesses recently gathered in Gdansk, Poland, to discuss reconstruction in Ukraine even as Russia’s full-scale invasion continues….
Inside GEF’s Blended Finance Push: Turning Public Money Into Private Capital Leverage
For most of the Eighth Global Environmental Facility (GEF) Assembly last month, the atmosphere inside Samarkand’s sprawling Congress Centre echoed a growing confidence…
Towards a Human rights-Centred, Transformative Agenda Beyond 2030
The 2030 agenda cum SDGs are due to be completed in 2030, with negotiations towards a follow-up agenda to begin formally at the…
