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 […]

For Dona Nena, a chocolatier who is central to culinary tourism in Belém, the success of her operations is dependent on the cocoa trees grown organically in Amazonia. But, she says, they are already bearing smaller fruit.

By CIVICUSDec 23 2025 (IPS)   CIVICUS discusses migrants’ rights in Libya with Sarra Zidi, political scientist and researcher for HuMENA, an international civil society organisation (CSO) that advances democracy, human rights and social justice across the Middle East and North Africa. Sarra Zidi Libya has fragmented into rival power […]