The author is an Afghanistan-based female journalist, trained with Finnish support before the Taliban take-over. Her identity ...

February 6 is the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) - a practice deemed a gross ...

The international community must take action to address the CO2 emissions of the carbon aristocracy as climate change ...

Over the past few years, climate shocks have become more frequent and have devastated economies and agriculture systems, exacerbating widespread malnutrition and hunger. It has become increasingly ...

A new executive order from the White House calls for withdrawing support from major UN entities and a review of all UN ...

Dina Gamal, whose 10-year-old son was born blind, says it is not him but Egyptian society that lives in the dark.

Tanzania’s fight against HIV had relied on funding from the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a USAID ...

The humanitarian situation in Haiti continues to deteriorate as armed gangs expand their control in Port-Au-Prince and ...

Even after Trump declared that he wanted to take back the Panama Canal, acquire Greenland by force, if necessary, and rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, I could not, like many others, ...

CIVICUS discusses the ongoing conflict in Ethiopia’s Amhara region with Hone Mandefro, advocacy director at the Amhara ...

Alexander Lukashenko will soon begin his seventh term as president of Belarus. The official result of the 26 January election gave him 86.8 per cent of the vote, following an election held in a ...

US President Donald Trump’s ominous threat to take over the Panama Canal and Greenland sets the stage for a new political ...