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- Loss and Damage at COP30: Indigenous Leaders Challenge Top-Down Finance Models
Indigenous activists continue to fight for a seat at the table in solving climate change, asking for self-determination and financial agency. Read more » - UN Independent Commission Finds That Israeli Forces Have Committed Genocide in Gaza
On September 16, the Israeli military began its ground offensive in Gaza City, accompanied by intensified bombardment of residential areas and a surge in civilian displacement. Concurrently, the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and Israel, issued a report in which… Read more » - ‘The Authoritarian Regime Uses Collective Punishment to Discourage Any Challenge to Its Authority’
CIVICUS discusses the deaths of Indigenous activists in custody in Tajikistan with Khursand Khurramov, an independent journalist and political analyst. Five Indigenous Pamiri activists have died in Tajikistan’s prisons in 2025, reportedly after being denied adequate medical assistance. Since 2021, around 40 Pamiris have been killed and over 200… Read more » - Struggle For Water Continues Following Israeli Attacks on Lebanon
Just under a year into a fragile ceasefire, 150,000 people in southern Lebanon continue to deal with the potentially lethal aftermath of Israeli bombing, highlighting the devastating long-term effects of conflict. A report published late last month (AUG) by Action Against Hunger, Insecurity Insight, and Oxfam said that at least… Read more » - Better Use of the World’s Expertise in Navigating the Polycrisis
Other articles in this series on clustering conventions that are addressed by the Triple Environmental Crisis of pollution (Stanley-Jones), biodiversity (Schally) and climate change (Azores) I have touched on the idea of clustering not only conventions but the science-policy bodies established separately to serve them. We address the question of… Read more » - When Civil Society is Kept Outside, We Should Build a Bigger Room
The recent IPS article, “UNGA’s High-Level Meetings: NGOs Banned Again,” served as a stark and painful reminder of a long-standing paradox: the United Nations, an organization founded on the principle of “We the Peoples,” often closes its doors to the very communities it was created to serve. Yet, after sharing… Read more » - Why the Awaza Declaration Could Rewrite the Future for the World’s Landlocked Nations
The theater of diplomacy can be more revealing than the speeches. Under a scorching Caspian sun in Awaza, two marines lowered their flags with the precision of a ballet. The green silk of Turkmenistan, folded into a neat bundle before the UN’s blue-and-gold standard, fluttered briefly and vanished into waiting… Read more » - AfDB Commits 11 Billion Dollars To Support Early Warning Systems, Food Security in Rural Africa
As increasingly frequent droughts and devastating floods are affecting agricultural productivity, leaving millions of people food insecure in Africa amid a lack of climate finance, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has committed USD 11 billion to support various climate-resilient and infrastructure projects in rural areas. Climate change-induced humanitarian emergencies are… Read more » - The Cruel Deceptions of Peace in Palestine
In a long past due move, the UN General Assembly voted 142-10 to approve a plan called “The New York Declaration” that hopes to revive the long dead Two State Solution for Palestinian Independence. Many observers may see it as a welcome initiative to curtail Israel’s century-long colonial project in… Read more » - Closing the US$1.5 trillion Gap: How FDI can Help Achieve SDGs in Asia & the Pacific
Over the past two decades, foreign direct investment (FDI) has been the single largest and most stable source of external development capital in Asia and the Pacific (see Figure). In 2022 alone, FDI flows into the region exceeded US$300 billion, outpacing official development aid (ODA), remittances and portfolio investment flows.… Read more »
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