Belarus withdraws from landmark UN environmental rights treaty Following a heated exchange of arguments, Minsk has ultimately withdrawn from the Aarhus Convention – the primary…
Andrey Kalikh, an experienced anti-corruption activist, was detained in the streets of Saint Petersburg on February 27, 2022 while protesting against Russia’s military invasion in…
The fight to reduce climate-damaging emissions is a fight for women’s rights. This conclusion is being reached by more and more advocates of both causes…
Prof. Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for founding…
Capsicum Oleoresin, or pepper-spray, a chemical weapon classified as a “less lethal” alternative to fire arms, was most likely used by Bulgarian riot police and…
Global warming has increased global economic inequality. Some countries have profited from climate change while the same rise in average planetary temperatures has dragged down economic…
LONDON, 21 March, 2019 − So Old Man River is getting a day in court: a growing international initiative is seeing to it that rivers gain…
One of New Zeland’s darkest days, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called it – the day when a far-right Christian extremist took 49 lives of Muslims…
Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops, announced the Vatican’s plans to hold a special assembly devoted to the environmental problems of…
Illiberal governments attack civil society because it is able to control them, argues professor Balazs Trencsenyi, Head of the Department of History at the Central…