Last week, at its annual Land Conference in Washington D.C., (May 5-8), the World Bank showed allegiance to the new US administration by dropping the pretense of promoting land reform for climate ...

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

Until the mid-20th century, marriage between men and women was the societal norm in most countries, while cohabitation ...

In Nigeria, salt is deeply woven into the fabric of food and culture. It brings out flavor, preserves ingredients, and ...

Villagers from 10 villages in Gianyar, Bali have joined hands to find a solution to the mounting waste - both organic and ...

CIVICUS discusses Romania’s presidential election with Anda Serban, Executive Director of Resource Center for Public Participation (CERE), a civil society organisation (CSO) that focuses on public ...

Tom Fletcher is the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, OCHA.

Over the past 40 years, what natural disaster has affected more people around the globe than any other? The answer, according the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), is drought. The past 10 ...

The UN80 Initiative is anchored in answering these questions – and equipping our organization in an era of extraordinary uncertainty. Yes, these are times of peril.

A controversial amendment to Hungary’s constitution has left the country’s LGBTQI community both defiant and fearful, rights groups have said.

A six-page internal document, marked “STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL” on every single page – indicating restricted access to protect ...

As discussions on the restructuring of the United Nations– including a possible merger of UN agencies and staff lay-offs system-wide — continue at the highest levels of the Secretariat—the Staff Union ...