Climate change has thrown our food systems into chaos. Extreme weather events and dramatic climate variations are hammering ...

The impact of climate change continues to devastate economies worldwide, creating a pressing need for all countries to ...

While Kenya's Mung Bean Bill has moved to mediation, farmers are battling the fallout from the widespread distribution of ...

Localization refers to the process of empowering local actors—NGOs, community-based organizations and local governments—to ...

Based on reported and estimated mortality in the Gaza-Israel war, it appears clear that the Palestinian death toll in Gaza is among the highest civilian mortality rates of the 21st century ...

CIVICUS discusses Afghanistan’s system of gender apartheid with Shaharzad Akbar, Executive Director of Rawadari, a human rights organisation founded by Afghans in exile. Since regaining power in ...

SYDNEY, Oct 15 2024 (IPS) - Climate justice recognizes differential impacts of climate crisis between rich and poor, women and men, and older and younger generations. The UN Secretary-General António ...

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 14 2024 (IPS) - A landmark report released last July by five UN agencies— the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund ...

SYDNEY, Oct 14 2024 (IPS) - The Pacific Islands region is both the frontline of the wrath that climate change is lashing on the environment and human life and the drive for innovation and solutions to ...

NEW YORK, Oct 15 2024 (IPS) - 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 ...

BANGKOK, Thailand, Oct 14 2024 (IPS) - While the impact of COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine on food system disruptions was widely covered, underlying food system vulnerabilities across Asia and the ...

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 18 2024 (IPS) - In the midst of Israel’s ground incursion of southern Lebanon, frequent airstrikes have demolished civilian infrastructure, which is only contributing to the ...