Tanzania’s vulnerability to disasters is exacerbated by poor disaster preparedness and infrastructure and this results in ...

Over 570 million people live in the world’s 32 Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs), spanning across Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. These nations face unique and complex development ...

It’s been a tumultuous year, and a tough one for struggles for human rights. Civil society’s work to seek social justice and hold the powerful to account has been tested at every turn. Civil society ...

CIVICUS discusses the challenges Palestinian civil society faces in resisting digital suppression and advocating for justice ...

Richard Bennett was appointed as the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan in April 2022. He has served in Afghanistan on several occasions in different capacities, ...

Ojajuni Olufunsho, a resident of Ayetoro, a town along the Atlantic coast in southwestern Nigeria, saw her home swept away by ...

Former American President Jimmy Carter was a man of peace and principles. He presided over a tumultuous period in American ...

Twenty-year-old Gogontlejang Phaladi of Mahalapye, Botswana is grateful she was never sent to a so-called “hyena” like scores of girls in neighboring Malawi were.

Smallholder farmer Suleman Mustapha Simbia, 40, is pleased with the introduction of an insurance initiative called the Ghana Agriculture Insurance Programme. The programme is being implemented in this ...

The eighth G20 Summit convened in St. Petersburg on Sept. 5-6, 2013 was dominated by the Syrian crisis, deflecting attention from the mandate of the gathering to serve as the premier forum for ...

Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia in the southern Balkans, is the focus of hope for young jobseekers. But, for many, it ...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has included eight staffers of the controversial Ugandan tabloid Red Pepper in its 2017 global census of imprisoned journalists. Some may disagree with that ...