February 6 is the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) - a practice deemed a gross ...

WASHINGTON DC, Feb 6 2025 (IPS) - For centuries, innumerable countries were ruled by an entrenched, typically inherited, political class: the “aristocracy.” The term comes from the Ancient Greek words ...

The humanitarian situation in Haiti continues to deteriorate as armed gangs expand their control in Port-Au-Prince and ...

Zawadi Delphine is a soldier's wife and mother of three who lives in Camp Katindo, east of the city of Goma and who believes her husband has been killed.

Why can’t there be education for every child? Why can’t there be healthcare for everyone who needs it? Why can’t everyone be freed from hunger and deprivation? Though these are promised to all as ...

CIVICUS discusses the ongoing conflict in Ethiopia’s Amhara region with Hone Mandefro, advocacy director at the Amhara ...

Many Americans, especially the wealthy and successful, have discovered that the US is facing the scourge of an ageing elderly ...

He was referring to the recent amendment in the already existing cybercrime law, terming it a “wild” law which has been instituted to grapple with fake news among other online harms. The new ...

Benin faced a number of negative spillovers in 2022: a deteriorating regional security situation at its northern border, the ...

Ending the fentanyl crisis won’t be easy. The U.S. has an addiction problem that spans decades – long predating the rise of fentanyl – and countless attempts to regulate, legislate and incarcerate hav ...

US President Donald Trump’s ominous threat to take over the Panama Canal and Greenland sets the stage for a new political ...

In less than two weeks in office, Trump issued scores of reckless executive orders that ironically will gravely undermine rather than enhance his “America First” agenda and America’s global leadership ...