CIVICUS discusses Afghanistan’s system of gender apartheid with Shaharzad Akbar, Executive Director of Rawadari, a human ...

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 shape or form. It is a ...

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

The world’s farmers produce enough food to feed more than the global population. Yet around 733 million people are facing ...

BALTIMORE, Maryland USA, Oct 14 2024 (IPS) - World Food Day seems like it should be a time to celebrate. A day to eat ...

Over the past few months, Pakistan has been grappling with a persistent and disruptive internet slowdown, leaving millions of ...

How will Israel respond to Iran’s recent ballistic missiles barrage? “Strategic patience” is the best course. Israel has its ...

I don’t know of a more sustainable technology for the transformation of society than biogas,” said Professor Alex Enrich-Prast, an activist for this energy alternative with a highly diversified and ...

When the weather is bad, the residents of the Litoral neighborhood in Manzanillo, Cuba, are forced to evacuate their houses.

We must build a new social contract for education – a contract based on equality, equity, and universal human rights. At the ...

The commonly used Bangla phrase for siphoning off money out of the country – “taka pachar” – is rather misleading. Because taka, the Bangladeshi currency, is never taken out of Bangladesh. It’s not ...

Over the past few months, the escalation of gang violence and mass displacement in Haiti have been of great concern for ...