INDIA: ‘The Cockroach Janta Party Brings Together Everyone Who Has Been Neglected for Years’
CIVICUS discusses India’s Cockroach Janta Party movement with Harshit Singh, a young activist, poet and storyteller who took part in protests in Delhi. Read...
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Palestinian Children Deserve Education, not Ethnic Cleansing
ROME, August 10 (IPS) – World News are more or less currently fully occupied with the U.S. – Iran debacle and to a lesser...
Sudan: ‘It made me dream again’: The students refusing to let war stop their education
Sarah Tekhlu was ready to give up on university. An Eritrean refugee, she had already been displaced once from Khartoum to Madani, then again...
Where Some See Waste, Others See Opportunity: Young Sierra Leoneans Fight Against Electronic Waste, Plastic Pollution
FREETOWN, August 10 (IPS) – Growing up, Peter George, a young innovator in Bo District in Southern Region, Sierra Leone, watched people dump electronic...
For Brazil’s Indigenous youth, visibility is resistance
As climate change reshapes Indigenous territories across Brazil, a new generation is turning to culture and digital platforms to defend their lands and their...
The Mediterranean’s own odyssey: An ecological treasure feels the strain
More than 2,500 years after Homer’s epic was first told, Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster retelling of The Odyssey has brought the journey back to big...
‘Sudan is losing another generation’ to war, Mohammed warns
More than 1,000 days of war in Sudan have left millions of children out of school, displaced or exposed to grave violations, the UN...
Peacock party takes pride of place in nod to decades of turbulent history
In a new twist on panda diplomacy, UN Geneva welcomed five young peacocks to the Palace of Nations on Friday, a gift of India...
Ebola in DR Congo: Childhood deaths rise; hopes raised over new vaccine
More than 300 children have died in the Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN said on Friday,...
Food prices edged up in July amid heatwaves and energy price hikes
The cost of key foods edged up last month as searing heatwaves and ongoing geopolitical uncertainty impacted energy prices around the world. Read the...
WHO scales up Ebola readiness in 22 countries across three continents 
Ukraine: Civilian casualty rates among ‘deadliest’ in years, as energy attacks intensify 
As disasters mount, next UN climate summit faces a test of trust 
Gaza: 340 children killed despite ceasefire agreement – UNICEF