News stories by CIVICUS, page 7

  1. ‘Student Protests Have Sparked Solidarity, Empathy and a Renewed Belief in Collective Action’

    - Inter Press Service

    Mar 31 (IPS) - CIVICUS discusses recent protests in Serbia with Alma Mustajbaši?, researcher at Civic Initiatives, a Serbian civil society organisation that advocates for democracy, human rights and citizen engagement.

  2. ‘Reconciliation Will Require Robust Transitional Justice and Accountability Mechanisms’

    - Inter Press Service

    Feb 05 (IPS) - CIVICUS discusses the ongoing conflict in Ethiopia’s Amhara region with Hone Mandefro, advocacy director at the Amhara Association of America, and Henok Ashagray, PhD candidate and project officer at the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria.

  3. ‘Areas Essential to the Global Climate Are Being Threatened by Economic Projects’

    - Inter Press Service

    Jan 31 (IPS) - CIVICUS discusses activism against oil auctions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with François Kamate, founder and coordinator of the young environmental volunteer movement Extinction Rebellion Rutshuru.

  4. ‘The Closure of Meta’s US Fact-Checking Programme Is a Major Setback in the Fight Against Disinformation’

    - Inter Press Service

    Jan 24 (IPS) - CIVICUS speaks with Olivia Sohr about the challenges of disinformation and the consequences of the closure of Meta’s fact-checking programme in the USA. Olivia is the Director of Impact and New Initiatives at Chequeado, an Argentine civil society organisation working since 2010 to improve the quality of public debate through fact-checking, combating disinformation, promoting access to information and open data.

  5. ‘Digital platforms amplify the Israeli narrative while systematically silencing Palestinian voices’

    - Inter Press Service

    Jan 02 (IPS) - CIVICUS discusses the challenges Palestinian civil society faces in resisting digital suppression and advocating for justice with Palestinian lawyer and researcher Dima Samaro.

  6. ‘The Election Is Just Another Tool to Keep Lukashenko in Power for as Long as Possible’

    - Inter Press Service

    Dec 23 (IPS) - CIVICUS discusses the ongoing crackdown on civil society in Belarus with Natallia Satsunkevich, human rights defender and interim board member of the Viasna Human Rights Centre.

  7. My Father Was Arbitrarily Arrested and Convicted for Denouncing Government Corruption

    - Inter Press Service

    Dec 17 (IPS) - CIVICUS speaks with Ramón Zamora, son of Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora, about restrictions on press freedom and the challenges of defending human rights in Guatemala.

  8. Quilombola Communities Live in Fear Because the Laws That Are Supposed to Protect Them Are Ignored

    - Inter Press Service

    Dec 04 (IPS) - CIVICUS discusses threats to the security, rights and ancestral lands of Brazil’s quilombola communities with Wellington Gabriel de Jesus dos Santos, leader and activist of the Pitanga dos Palmares Quilombola community in Bahia state.

  9. AI-powered Weapons Depersonalise the Violence, Making It Easier for the Military to Approve More Destruction

    - Inter Press Service

    Nov 22 (IPS) -
     
    CIVICUS discusses the dangers arising from military uses of artificial intelligence (AI) with Sophia Goodfriend, Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative.

  10. ‘The International Community Must Stop Turning a Blind Eye to the Suffering of Sudanese Women’

    - Inter Press Service

    Nov 18 (IPS) - Content warning: this interview contains details some readers may find distressing.

    CIVICUS discusses Sudan's civil war and its impact on women with Sulaima Elkhalifa, a Sudanese human rights defender and expert on gender-based violence.

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