COP16, the much-anticipated follow-up talks to the 2022 Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) agreement, which ...

Climate change has thrown our food systems into chaos. Extreme weather events and dramatic climate variations are hammering ...

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

As Israel continues its siege on the southern borders of Lebanon, concerns among humanitarian organizations grow as the ...

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

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

Juan López was gunned down on 14 September. An environmental activist, community leader and member of the Municipal Committee in Defence of the Commons and Public Goods of Tocoa, he was the latest ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...