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 ...

The circular economy is more than an environmental fix; it’s a smarter, more resilient strategy for sustainable development. It has the power to revolutionize how we produce, consume, and thrive ...

Although the United States has the highest healthcare costs per capita among developed countries, it does poorly compared to ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 ...