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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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.

They found shoes, hundreds of them, scattered across the dirt floor of an extermination camp in Jalisco state. These abandoned shoes, once belonging to someone’s child, parent or spouse, stand as ...

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 ...

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