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

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

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 ...

NEW YORK, May 2 2025 (IPS) - Pressures on the press are piling up. Like an avalanche gaining speed yet unnoticed by most ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Trump administration’s on-again-off-again threats against the United Nations, and US withdrawals from several UN agencies aggravated further by financial cutbacks, have left most staffers with ...

Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum signed into law a constitutional reform banning the cultivation of genetically modified ...

Immunization for All is Humanly Possible”, emphasizes the need to eradicate disparities in access to vaccines, particularly ...

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 ...

Varkala is an area with unique geodiversity heritage, but activists say rampant, illegal tourist infrastructure and climate ...

The US State Department, in a wide-ranging political re-structuring of its policies, will eliminate 132 domestic offices, lay ...