In November, tens of thousands of male olive ridley sea turtles start congregating just 5km nearshore in Odisha, India. They ...

The humanitarian situation in Haiti has deteriorated significantly in the recent weeks as rates of violence, hunger, and displacement soar amid a severe lack of funding. As armed gangs continue to ...

CIVICUS discusses the devastating impact of palm oil extraction in West Papua with Tigor Hutapea, legal representative of Pusaka Bentala Rakyat, an organisation campaigning for Indigenous Papuan ...

Rumors circulating at UN Headquarters suggest there is little appetite for ambition at the Second World Summit for Social ...

In a world where headlines warn of rising seas, dying reefs, and vanishing species, it’s easy to think the story ends in loss. But what if the frontlines of climate change were also frontiers of hope?

As the UN continues with its plans to restructure the world body, designated UN 80, the complaints continue to pour in—first, the Staff Union in New York and now, the Staff Union in Geneva. After a ...

Since 2000, the United Nations (UN) recognizes May 22 as the International Day for Biological Diversity, in hopes of ...

The construction of the Polish border wall has sparked tensions, affecting the local Tatar community, tourism, and migration flows at the Belarus-Poland border ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) for this year’s World No Tobacco Day (May 31) has chosen the theme, “Unmasking the Appeal”, to reveal the tactics employed by the tobacco and nicotine industries to ...

Israel’s ongoing war of annihilation in Gaza has had a lethal campaign unleashed against the foundations of Palestinian ...

As the global community prepares to convene for the UN Ocean Conference, they must prepare to invest in scientific efforts to bolster their joint efforts.

In 1945, with cities in ruins and hope stretched thin, 50 nations gathered in San Francisco and reached for a better world. From the ashes of fascism, genocide, and world war, they forged a charter — ...