High levels of hunger will continue for another 136 years in many developing countries, according to a new report assessing ...

CIVICUS discusses Afghanistan’s system of gender apartheid with Shaharzad Akbar, Executive Director of Rawadari, a human ...

The future seems virtually bleak, particularly if current trends continue, when over 582 million people will be chronically ...

Information manipulation and misinformation are not new phenomena, but they have taken on exaggerated importance, especially ...

The world’s farmers produce enough food to feed more than the global population. Yet around 733 million people are facing ...

Thus, climate justice encompasses ideas of fairness, equity, and ethical responsibility. It goes beyond simply mitigating ...

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 shape or form. It is a ...

BALTIMORE, Maryland USA, Oct 14 2024 (IPS) - World Food Day seems like it should be a time to celebrate. A day to eat ...

The Pacific Community’s PROTÉGÉ Project is striving to advance climate resilient development through protecting and better managing biodiversity ...

Since late August, severe flash floods and monsoons plaguing Bangladesh have affected nearly 6 million people. Bangladeshi officials have declared the floods to be the country’s worst climate disaster ...

Brazil is counting on biofuels to assert itself as an energy powerhouse in the near future, as a decisive supplier of low-carbon jet fuel, a requirement of the climate crisis. The electrification of ...

In December 2022, the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) saw governments worldwide unite behind a set of ambitious targets aimed at ...