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 ...

In 2017, South African activist Nonhle Mbuthuma took a stand against the powerful oil giant Shell, halting their plans to ...

When the “founding fathers” –regrettably, no “founding mothers”—created the United Nations 79 years ago, one of the biggest ...

In a context of shrinking civic space that threatens civil society participation in an increasing number of countries and all ...

Graduate students of the London School of Economics and Political Science gathered at Kenya’s coast in September 2018, where the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and ...

Democracy is as much a process as a goal. For the ideal of Democracy to be enjoyed by everyone, it requires participation and ...

It was nine in the morning when the shell landed in front of nine-year-old Hella al-Abtah's house in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus. Hella survived the initial blast but was ...

Unpredictable weather patterns in the form of excessive or prolonged rainfall are wreaking havoc for farmers across Pakistan as sowing and harvesting periods are severely affected.

For Egypt’s commercial marine fishermen, making a living has never been more dangerous. Egyptian crews driven further afield in search of fish have faced pirate attacks, spent months in dingy foreign ...

It all happened on the very same day—4 April. That day, indigenous peoples were simultaneously characterised as fundamental allies in the world’s war on hunger and poverty, while being declared as ...

As the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Ahmed Al-Tayeb said on October 20: “As a Muslim and being the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, I declare before Almighty God that I disassociate myself, the rulings of the ...