Pro-Democracy protesters gather in front of the headquarters of the Sudanese army in the capital, Khartoum. Credit: Masarib/Ahmed Bahhar via UN News By Robert MisikVIENNA, Austria, Jan 5 2026 (IPS) Consider our political systems not merely as battlegrounds of passions, ideologies and economic interests, but as systematically functioning arrangements of […]

By CIVICUSJan 2 2026 (IPS)   CIVICUS discusses Kazakhstan’s anti-LGBTQI+ bill with Temirlan Baimash, activist and co-founder of QUEER KZ youth initiative, a Kazakhstani LGBTQI+ organisation. Temirlan Baimash On 12 November, Kazakhstan’s lower house of parliament unanimously passed a bill banning ‘LGBTQI+ propaganda’, introducing fines and up to 10 days’ […]

Credit: Isabel Infantes/Reuters via Gallo Images By Andrew FirminLONDON, Dec 30 2025 (IPS) Satellite images show corpses piled high in El Fasher, North Darfur, awaiting mass burial or cremation as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia tries to cover up the scale of its crimes. Up to 150,000 El Fasher […]

The rainwater harvesting cistern is everywhere in Brazil’s semi-arid region, a social technology that reduced water scarcity for its inhabitants. Elizabete Sousa Soares wanted to leave Jatobá when her daughter Maria was born 11 years ago, but decided to stay in her small rural town thanks to the cistern and […]

Credit: Brenton Geach/Gallo Images By Inés M. PousadelaMONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Dec 27 2025 (IPS) Hours before world leaders gathered in Johannesburg for the 2025 G20 summit in November, hundreds of South African women wearing black lay down in a city park for 15 minutes — one for each woman who loses […]

By CIVICUSDec 26 2025 (IPS)   CIVICUS discusses Generation Z-led protests in Bulgaria with Zahari Iankov, senior legal expert at the Bulgarian Centre for Not-for-Profit Law, a civil society organisation that advocates for participation and human rights. Zahari Iankov Bulgaria recently experienced its largest protests since the 1990s, driven largely […]