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Brazil Can Boost Growth by Bringing More Women into the Labor Force
Priority reforms include improving childcare,... More >> 
From Grief to Guns: Baloch Women in Conflict
Fozia Shashani, 26, a member of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee, said it was “most painful” to hear reports that two Baloch women – Hawa Baloch, 20, and Asifa Mengal, 24 – had taken part in active combat as suicide bombers. The path, she said, was in complete... More >>
The Veto May be the Weapon of Elimination in the Election of Next UN Chief
The Security Council armed with veto powers. Credit: UN... More >> 
From Pledges to Proof: UN Biodiversity Meeting Begins First Global Review of Nature Action
Governments convened in Rome on Monday (February 16) for a critical round of UN biodiversity negotiations, launching the world’s first global review of how countries are acting to protect nature. The sixth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI-6) of... More >>
International Humanitarian Law is at Breaking Point – but not Beyond Repair
Credit: UNICEF/Eyad El... More >> 
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More >> Extreme Heat Undermines Decent Work in North Eastern Kenya
By 9 a.m. on a Wednesday, Hawa Hussein Farah is already watching the temperature climb. Awake since 6 a.m., she has prepared her three children for school before walking them to class and heading to Suuq Mugdi, an open-air market in Garissa town, to buy the fruit she... More >>
IRAN: ‘Sustainable Change Will Depend on Domestic Organisational Capacity, Not External Force’
By CIVICUS
Feb 16 2026 -
CIVICUS discusses the recent protests in Iran with Sohrab Razaghi, executive director of Volunteer Activists, a Netherlands-based diaspora organisation empowering Iranian civil society.