The world’s population is ageing. Global life expectancy has leapt to 73.3 years, up from under 65 in 1995. Around the world, there are now 1.1 billion people aged 60-plus, expected to rise to 1.4 ...

Following a series of brutal altercations in the communes of Mirebalais and Saut d’Eau in Haiti back in late March, local ...

The author is an Afghanistan-based female journalist, trained with Finnish support before the Taliban take-over. Her identity is withheld for security reasons ...

The UN’s proposed plans for restructuring the world body, currently under discussion at the highest echelons of the ...

On May 7, the exchanges between India and Pakistan since the Pahalgam attack took on a serious turn when India launched a ...

The most powerful court in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, is preparing to clarify ...

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

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 ...

Efficiency and cost-effectiveness are important, but the UN’s human rights work has long been grossly underfunded and understaffed. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights gets just 5 ...

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

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 ...