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Amitabh Behar speaks to IPS at ICSW2025 in Bangkok, Thailand. Credit: Zofeen by Zofeen Ebrahim (Bangkok) Sunday November 2, 2025 Inter-Press Office BANGKOK, Nov 2 (IPS) – Speaking to IPS on the sidelines of International Civil Society Week in Bangkok (1-5 November), Amitabh Behar, Executive Director of Oxfam International and a passionate advocate for human […]
CIVICUS Secretary General Mandeep Tiwana during International Civil Society Week 2025. Credit: Zofeen Ebrahim/IPS by Zofeen Ebrahim (Bangkok) Saturday November 1, 2025 Inter-Press Office BANGKOK, Nov 1 (IPS) – It’s a somber global moment as civil society actors battle assassinations, imprisonments, trumped-up charges and cuts to pro-democracy movements in a world gripped by inequality, climate […]
from CIVICUS Friday October 24, 2025 Inter-Press Office CIVICUS speaks about the disappearance of Turkmen activists Abdulla Orusov and Alisher Sahatov with human rights defender Diana Dadasheva from the civil movement DAYANÇ/Turkmenistan and with Gülala Hasanova, wife of Alisher Sahatov. On July 24, Turkmen activists Abdulla Orusov and Alisher Sahatov were kidnapped in Edirne, Turkey, […]
from CIVICUS Monday October 13, 2025 Inter-Press Office CIVICUS discusses enforced disappearances in Mexico with a member of the International Network of Associations of Missing Persons. The crisis of disappearances in Mexico has reached alarming proportions more than 52,000 unidentified bodies in morgues and mass graves. On July 1, the Mexican Congress approved the controversial […]
Opinion by Katsuhiro Asagiri (Tokyo) Friday October 10, 2025 Inter-Press Office TOKYO, Oct 10 (IPS) – The cinema hall of Tokyo’s Toda Peace Memorial Hall fell silent as the Kazakh filmmaker and human rights activist Aigerim Seitenova stepped forward in a black T-shirt and green skirt to introduce her 31-minute documentary, “Jara – Radioactive Patriarchy: […]
Headlines that reflect the release of Belarusian political prisoners. Graphic: IPS By Ed Holt (Bratislava) Tuesday, October 7, 2025 Inter-press service BRACTLAVA, 7 October (IPS) – While the Belarusian President Alexander Loekasjenko continues to grant political prisoners in an apparently increasingly successful attempt to improve the diplomatic relations with the US, law groups have warned […]
from Civicus Tuesday, October 7, 2025 Inter-press service Civicus discusses recent protests that have led to a government change in Nepal with Dikpal Khatri Chhetri, co -founder of Youth in Federal Discourse (Yfd). YFD is an organization led by young people that argues for democracy, social involvement and the empowerment of young people. DikPal Khatri […]
Dr. Salanieta Kitolelei, from the Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine, Dr. Simon Salopuka, Taumako Native Knowledge Institution – Tiki and Leilani Duffy, Conservation International Samoa in a discussion about weaving ancestral knowledge with Ocean Science Ocean Ocean Ocean Conference. Credit: Sera Sefeti/IPS By Sera Sefeti (Honiara, Solomon Islands)) Friday, October 3, 2025 Inter Press Service […]
Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner of the United Nations for Refugees, focuses at the conference at a high level of the general meeting about the situation of Rohingya-Moslims and other minorities in Myanmar. Credit: UN Photo/Manuel Elías By Oritro Karim (United Nations)) Wednesday October 1, 2025 Inter Press Service United Nations, 1 October (IPS) – On […]
Zunaira, a lawyer from the Unicef -Jeugd, speaks at an event in UNICEF house on the sidelines of the 80th session of the general meeting of the UN. Credit: Tadej Znidarcic/Unicef by hurger Hossain (United Nations)) Friday, September 26, 2025 Inter Press Service The climate lawyer of UNICEF, 15-year-old Zunaira, believes that the voices and […]
