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The “Extremely Dangerous and Unpredictable” situation in Middle East and Beyond
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Caribbean Leaders and Civil Society Prepare for Global Push on Fossil Fuel Phase-Out
As the world edges closer to breaching key climate thresholds, Caribbean policymakers, scientists and civil society leaders gathered in Saint Lucia this month to coordinate the region’s position ahead of a landmark global meeting on [...] Read more »
War in Iran, Middle East Threatens Global Agrifood Systems
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PORTUGAL: ‘The Far Right’s Electoral Legitimacy Can Eventually Become Governmental Power’
By CIVICUS
Mar 27 2026 -
CIVICUS discusses Portugal’s presidential runoff election and the rise of the far-right Chega (Enough) party with Jonni Lopes, Executive Director of Academia Cidadã (Citizen Academy) and a Steering [...] Read more »
Torture and Physical Abuse of Children in Gaza Declared War Crimes
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Iran War: Winners and Losers
By A. K. Abdul Momen
NEW JERSEY, USA, Mar 26 2026 - Who benefits from a war of choice against Iran?
The immediate political winners may include President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But if the war [...] Read more »
Nepal’s Gen Z Electoral Revolution
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EXCLUSIVE: Water Laureate Kaveh Madani on Arrest, Exile and Fight for Science
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A World Order in Crisis: War, Power, and Resistance
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As East Africa’s Migratory Fish Vanish, a Food Security Crisis Surfaces
By the time the auction begins at Nangurukuru fish market in Tanzania’s southern Lindi region, the crisis is already visible. Wooden canoes that once returned from the Rufiji River with heavy catches now bring only a fraction of what they used [...] Read more »
What the US Really Wants from MC14 in Yaoundé
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Central Bank Hedging Triggered Gold Fever
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Kuhaneetha Bai Kalaicelvan
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Mar 24 2026 - In mid-1971, US President Nixon ended the dollar’s gold peg at $35 per ounce, triggering de-dollarisation. The 2025 gold and silver rush [...] Read more »
“At Africa’s First Our Ocean Conference, a Test of Global Will on High Seas Protection and Deep-Sea Mining”
By James Alix Michel
VICTORIA, Seychelles, Mar 23 2026 - When the 11th Our Ocean Conference opens in Mombasa and Kilifi, Kenya, from June 16-18, 2026, it will mark the first time this influential meeting has been held on African soil. [...] Read more »
‘The Political System Only Moves When Threatened Directly’
By CIVICUS
Mar 23 2026 -
CIVICUS discusses Nepal’s upcoming election with youth activist Anusha Khanal of the Gen Z Movement Alliance, a youth-led civil society coalition mobilising for democratic accountability and [...] Read more »