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CIVICUS discusses the cancellation of RightsCon 2026 with Barbora Bukovská, Senior Director for Law and Policy at ARTICLE 19, a human rights organisation that works on freedom of expression and information around the world.

UNITED NATIONS, May 20 (IPS) - The ongoing crisis in the Middle East and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz continue to put immense stress and risk on the global economy.

ROME, May 20 (IPS) - The tea in your cup this morning began its journey in someone else's hands. Hands whose work most of us never think about. Almost certainly, those hands belonged to a smallholder farmer tending a small plot of land, plucking ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, May 20 (IPS) - Sharp surges in energy, fertilizer, and food prices triggered by the ongoing conflict in the Persian Gulf strikingly illustrate the deep interconnections between geopolitical conflict, food insecurity, and the .. ...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Wednesday strongly condemned Israel's decision to establish military facilities at a seized UNRWA compound in occupied East Jerusalem, calling the move "wholly unacceptable".

Facing a fast-moving Ebola outbreak caused by a rare strain of the virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) is relying on a rapid, community-centred response to halt transmission in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda, a ...

Before heading to strike sites in war-torn Lebanon, rescue workers and paramedics often say goodbye to one another - a ritual captured in widely shared videos reflecting the growing dangers faced by aid workers since hostilities between Hezbollah and ...

The Security Council meets today in New York for its annual open debate on the protection of civilians in armed conflict amid mounting concern over rising civilian casualties, attacks on humanitarian workers and widespread destruction of homes and .. ...

The deadly Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda does not represent a global pandemic emergency, although the risk is high at a regional and national level, the UN health agency chief said on Wednesday.

A landmark General Assembly resolution adopted on Wednesday is "a powerful affirmation" of international law, climate justice and science, according to UN chief António Guterres.