The world’s troubles deepened in 2024. Civilians bore the brunt of war. Violence in Gaza, Sudan, Ukraine, Haiti, and more displaced over 100 million people worldwide. Over 70% of those killed in Gaza ...

Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia in the southern Balkans, is the focus of hope for young jobseekers. But, for many, it ...

A tribunal of trade arbitrators has ruled in favor of the United States in its complaint that Mexico’s restrictions on ...

In 2019, then-President Andrés Manuel López Obrador hailed the Maya Train as a catalyst for development for the Yucatan ...

Construction of the new Museum of Modern Art is underway in Cotonou, Benin’s largest city. as part of a plan to ramp up the ...

The US, long described as a country built largely by immigrants, is planning to clamp down on migrants, refugees and asylum ...

Wars are bringing suffering to millions, and food is not only a casualty of bombing but also being used as a weapon against ...

CIVICUS discusses the ongoing crackdown on civil society in Belarus with Natallia Satsunkevich, human rights defender and ...

Vanuatu experienced yet another harrowing reminder of its vulnerability to disasters—a powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake ...

It’s been a tumultuous year, and a tough one for struggles for human rights. Civil society’s work to seek social justice and hold the powerful to account has been tested at every turn. Civil society ...

As talks of a ceasefire between Israel and Palestine intensify, bombardments in Gaza continue, raising the number of civilian ...

When some 40,000 delegates, including dozens of heads of state, descend on Paris for the United Nations Climate Change Conference later this year, a group of African women mayors plan to be there and ...