In January 2025, President Trump signed an executive order that upended humanitarian efforts globally, leaving millions of ...

The new pope, the latest in a line dating back almost 2,000 years, was quickly subjected to a very modern phenomenon: no sooner had Pope Leo XIV delivered his first address than people started ...

Dr Palitha Kohona is former Head, UN Treaties, a one-time Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the UN & until recently, Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China.

The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons must not be allowed to collapse under the weight of geopolitical cynicism.

South Korea, which currently has the world’s lowest fertility rate, are expected to experience population decline and demographic ageing throughout the remaining decades of the 21st century ...

Political instability and conflicts in the Great Lakes, the Horn of Africa, Sudan, and South Sudan have led to massive ...

More people are dying from once treatable infections because the medicines are no longer working as they should. The culprit?

Strong storms washed Golenur Begum's house away. Now the women from her village are climate-proofing their communities by ...

Malnutrition in Afghanistan remains a critical crisis, with millions, especially children and pregnant women, facing food insecurity and limited access to healthcare ...

The Gulf’s most powerful weapon isn’t a military, a United Nations (UN) Security Council seat, or a legacy of global ...

CIVICUS speaks with Eric Bjornlund, President and CEO of Democracy International, about the impacts of the US foreign aid freeze and the resulting legal challenges the Trump administration is facing.

Since the dissolution of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas in March, roughly 2 million Palestinians residing ...