Dr Palitha Kohona is former Head, UN Treaties, a one-time Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the UN & until recently, Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China.

The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons must not be allowed to collapse under the weight of geopolitical cynicism.

South Korea, which currently has the world’s lowest fertility rate, are expected to experience population decline and demographic ageing throughout the remaining decades of the 21st century ...

Political instability and conflicts in the Great Lakes, the Horn of Africa, Sudan, and South Sudan have led to massive ...

Malnutrition in Afghanistan remains a critical crisis, with millions, especially children and pregnant women, facing food insecurity and limited access to healthcare ...

Strong storms washed Golenur Begum's house away. Now the women from her village are climate-proofing their communities by ...

More people are dying from once treatable infections because the medicines are no longer working as they should. The culprit?

The Gulf’s most powerful weapon isn’t a military, a United Nations (UN) Security Council seat, or a legacy of global ...

Since the dissolution of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas in March, roughly 2 million Palestinians residing ...

CIVICUS speaks with Eric Bjornlund, President and CEO of Democracy International, about the impacts of the US foreign aid freeze and the resulting legal challenges the Trump administration is facing.

The argument for nuclear disarmament is important, especially in a world where there is a growing gulf between nuclear states.

Last week, at its annual Land Conference in Washington D.C., (May 5-8), the World Bank showed allegiance to the new US ...