As a string of European states announce withdrawals from a global treaty banning antipersonnel landmines, campaigners are warning countless lives could be put at risk as decades of progress fighting ...

As the world knows, the people of Kenya made their frustrations against the IMF known last year, with protests against IMF fiscal and austerity policies. And this unrest led to President William Ruto ...

CIVICUS speaks with Ukrainian gender rights activist Maryna Rudenko about the gendered impacts of the war in Ukraine and the importance of including women in peacebuilding efforts. Russia’s full-scale ...

Jesselina Rana is the UN Advisor at CIVICUS’s New York office. Mandeep S. Tiwana is Interim Co-Secretary General of CIVICUS, ...

Under the Tanzanian sun, Neema Mushi wipes sweat from her dust-covered face and swings her pickaxe into the earth. this is her life as a woman miner.

Global press freedom is at a “critical moment,” as a major index mapping the state of global press freedom hits an ...

Eight years before the U.S.-backed regime in South Vietnam collapsed, I stood with high school friends at Manhattan’s Penn Station on the night of April 15, 1967, waiting for a train back to ...

The most powerful court in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, is preparing to clarify the obligations of States in relation to climate change. In its upcoming ...

Participants will leave the 10th Our Oceans Conference with stark reminders that with sea levels rising, low-lying areas are threatened.

Freedom of the press is facing growing threats across the world. Authoritarian regimes still imprison, silence, and kill journalists. But today, elected governments are doing the same. In 2024, over ...

After over two years of extended warfare in Sudan, humanitarian organizations have expressed fears of an imminent collapse as ...

Press freedom is no longer a given in the United States 100 days into President Donald Trump’s second term as journalists and newsrooms face mounting pressures that threaten their ability to report ...