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from CIVICUS Monday February 16, 2026 Inter-Press Office CIVICUS discusses the recent protests in Iran with Sohrab Razaghi, executive director of Volunteer Activists, a Netherlands-based diaspora organization that empowers Iranian civil society. Sohrab Razaghi On December 28, protests sparked by economic grievances broke out across Iran, quickly developing into broader protests against the regime. The […]
Through Maria Spiller January 31, 2026 Minnesota journalist Georgia Fort was also released. Former CNN anchor and now independent journalist Don Lemon strongly defended his career in journalism on January 30 after being released from federal custody a day after his arrest for reporting on an anti-ICE protest at a Minnesota church, vowing that the […]
Credit: Abubaker Lubowa/Reuters via Gallo Images Opinion by inés m. pousadela (Montevideo, Uruguay) Monday January 26, 2026 Inter-Press Office MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Jan 26 (IPS) – When Ugandans went to the polls on January 15, there was no doubt about the outcome. As voting began, mobile internet services ground to a halt, ensuring minimal control as […]
Credit: Luc Gnago/Reuters via Gallo Images Opinion by inés m. pousadela (Montevideo, Uruguay) Tuesday January 20, 2026 Inter-Press Office MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Jan 20 (IPS) – In December, the dust settled on Guinea’s first presidential elections since the military took power in a 2021 coup. General Mamady Doumbouya remained in power after receiving 87 percent of […]
A man walks past a campaign poster of the military proxy party USDP, ahead of Myanmar’s closely monitored elections. Credit: Guy Dinmore/IPS by Guy Dinmore (Yangon, Myanmar and Bangkok) Tuesday January 6, 2026 Inter-Press Office YANGON, Myanmar and BANGKOK, Jan 6 (IPS) – With thousands of civilians dead in years of civil war and more […]
Credit: Isabel Infantes/Reuters via Gallo Images Opinion by Andrew Firmin (London) Tuesday December 30, 2025 Inter-Press Office LONDON, Dec 30 (IPS) – Satellite images showing corpses piled high in El Fasher, North Darfur, awaiting mass burial or cremation as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia tries to hide the extent of his crimes. Up to […]
from CIVICUS Friday December 26, 2025 Inter-Press Office CIVICUS discusses Generation Z-led protests in Bulgaria with Zahari Iankov, senior legal expert at the Bulgarian Center for Not-for-Profit Law, a civil society organization that advocates for participation and human rights. Zahari Jankov Bulgaria has recently experienced its largest protests since the 1990s, largely driven by young […]
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, […]
