When the weather is bad, the residents of the Litoral neighborhood in Manzanillo, Cuba, are forced to evacuate their houses.

Nearly 60 percent of Kashmir's agriculture relies on rainwater for irrigation, but this year the rainfall has been poor and ...

In any discussion of world peace, the issue of nuclear arms must be addressed, delegates said at the “Imaginer la ...

Sudan has been plunged into a deadly cholera outbreak in the midst of the Sudanese Civil War. Sudan is currently home to an ...

Chief Advisor of Bangladesh’s interim government, Dr. Muhammad Yunus, has appealed to the international community to engage ...

In 2017, South African activist Nonhle Mbuthuma took a stand against the powerful oil giant Shell, halting their plans to ...

CIVICUS discusses the upcoming election of new members of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council with Madeleine ...

When the “founding fathers” –regrettably, no “founding mothers”—created the United Nations 79 years ago, one of the biggest ...

The corona virus pandemic is impacting Africa’s population in quite differentiated ways and is significantly entrenching inequality. At the greatest risk are lives and livelihoods of the poor.

In a context of shrinking civic space that threatens civil society participation in an increasing number of countries and all ...

It was nine in the morning when the shell landed in front of nine-year-old Hella al-Abtah's house in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus. Hella survived the initial blast but was ...

For Egypt’s commercial marine fishermen, making a living has never been more dangerous. Egyptian crews driven further afield in search of fish have faced pirate attacks, spent months in dingy foreign ...