While Kenya's Mung Bean Bill has moved to mediation, farmers are battling the fallout from the widespread distribution of ...

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 18 2024 (IPS) - In the midst of Israel’s ground incursion of southern Lebanon, frequent airstrikes have demolished civilian infrastructure, which is only contributing to the ...

Based on reported and estimated mortality in the Gaza-Israel war, it appears clear that the Palestinian death toll in Gaza is among the highest civilian mortality rates of the 21st century ...

Localization refers to the process of empowering local actors—NGOs, community-based organizations and local governments—to ...

The growing gender gap between men and women is reflected not only in the world’s highest political hierarchies but also in the daily social and economic lives—with most women fighting a losing battle ...

Information manipulation and misinformation are not new phenomena, but they have taken on exaggerated importance, especially ...

CIVICUS discusses Afghanistan’s system of gender apartheid with Shaharzad Akbar, Executive Director of Rawadari, a human rights organisation founded by Afghans in exile. Since regaining power in ...

SYDNEY, Oct 15 2024 (IPS) - Climate justice recognizes differential impacts of climate crisis between rich and poor, women and men, and older and younger generations. The UN Secretary-General António ...

NEW YORK, Oct 15 2024 (IPS) - The right to abortion is a human rights issue that no government agency, courts, local and state legislators, or anyone else has the right to violate or impede in any ...

A few years ago, Bernardo Olivera moved to Posadas, the capital of the Argentinean province of Misiones, to study mathematics ...

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 14 2024 (IPS) - A landmark report released last July by five UN agencies— the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund ...