Advocacy for policies that protect and expand comprehensive sexuality education, safe abortion (where permitted), and ...

CIVICUS speaks about democratic decline in the USA with humanitarian and civil society activist Samuel Worthington, former president of the US civil society alliance InterAction and author of a new ...

A UN groundbreaking report published in 1982 laid the legal ground for defining the inalienable rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Since the Western Sahara War in 1975, Sahrawi refugees have resided in a collection of refugee shelters in the Tindouf province of Algeria. For over 50 years, these communities have struggled to ...

The UN’s proposed plans for restructuring the world body, currently under discussion at the highest echelons of the Secretariat, have provoked a protest from the UN Staff Union (UNSU) in New York ...

National and local elections can demonstrate the strengths and vulnerabilities that can be exploited as AI is used to influence voters.

Jesselina Rana is the UN Advisor at CIVICUS’s New York office. Mandeep S. Tiwana is Interim Co-Secretary General of CIVICUS, ...

Global press freedom is at a “critical moment,” as a major index mapping the state of global press freedom hits an ...

Although the United States has the highest healthcare costs per capita among developed countries, it does poorly compared to other developed countries on the vital issues of life and death ...

Bhuwan Ribhu didn’t plan to become a child rights activist. But when he saw how many children in India were trafficked he knew he couldn’t stay silent.

US President Donald Trump has deliberately sown discord worldwide in attempting to remake the world to serve supposed American interests better. He will not cede influence, let alone power and control ...

Participants will leave the 10th Our Oceans Conference with stark reminders that with sea levels rising, low-lying areas are ...