NEW YORK, Oct 2 2024 (IPS) - The world may have dodged an immediate bullet when the US intelligence agencies warned, this week, that by giving in to Ukraine’s pleading for long range missiles that ...
In 2017, South African activist Nonhle Mbuthuma took a stand against the powerful oil giant Shell, halting their plans to ...
The statistics are stark: 54 governments, of which 25 are African, are spending at least 10% of their revenues on servicing ...
CIVICUS discusses the upcoming election of new members of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council with Madeleine ...
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In a context of shrinking civic space that threatens civil society participation in an increasing number of countries and all ...
When the “founding fathers” –regrettably, no “founding mothers”—created the United Nations 79 years ago, one of the biggest ...
It is almost universally acknowledged that Pakistan emerged a separate state in 1947 primarily on the basis of religion. Yes, an Islamic state, but isn’t history rather murky on the question of ...
The Oscar-winning film 12 Years a Slave recently generated international discussion about the barbarity of slavery, but it is not alone in the attempt to break the silence around the 400 years of the ...
A new report accuses industries fueling the climate crisis, including fossil fuel ones, of draining public funds in the ...
State-owned power companies and utilities control much of the power sector. Consequently, tripling renewables by 2030 will ...
Yesterday, Israel launched a series of bombardments across Southern Lebanon, killing over 500 people and injuring over 1,800, ...