The future seems virtually bleak, particularly if current trends continue, when over 582 million people will be chronically ...

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 ...

The Pacific Community’s PROTÉGÉ Project is striving to advance climate resilient development through protecting and better managing biodiversity ...

Over the past few months, Pakistan has been grappling with a persistent and disruptive internet slowdown, leaving millions of ...

This year the theme for World Food Day is “Right to Foods for a Better Life and a Better Future.” It’s a timely reminder that ...

OXFORD, Oct 10 2024 (IPS) - When I joined CIVICUS in 2019, I came in with two decades of work on influencing and monitoring public policies through grassroots and global activism. Joining CIVICUS as ...

Fishworkers are often invisible in discussions about climate change, yet they are at the heart of food security, feeding millions while struggling to feed their own families. Their fight for survival ...

WASHINGTON DC/OXFORD, Oct 9 2024 (IPS) - How will Israel respond to Iran’s recent ballistic missiles barrage? “Strategic patience” is the best course. Israel has its hands full with Hamas and ...

At the bar that Sandra manages in Panama City's central financial district, the variety offered on the menu has shrunk due to delays in ship traffic through the Panama Canal, one of the world's major ...

The US has some of the strictest laws against smoking in public, including a 1997 executive order which bans smoking in all government federal buildings. But still, the tobacco industry and its allies ...

Since late August, severe flash floods and monsoons plaguing Bangladesh have affected nearly 6 million people. Bangladeshi officials have declared the floods to be the country’s worst climate disaster ...

Seven years ago, a brutal campaign of violence, rape and terror against the Rohingya people ignited in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. Villages were burned to the ground ...