With more and more governments narrowing space for dissent and activism, the UN has emerged as a key platform to air concerns about acute rights violations and develop protections for civil society and other vulnerable groups.

Mexico is experiencing a monumental human rights crisis.

When the Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRD) Regional Coalition for Middle East and North Africa met this past week in Beirut, one seat was noticeably empty.

In recent years there has been an explosion of attention and focus on young people.

By Fideline Mboringong and Angga D.

Most of today’s intergovernmental institutions – the UN included – were designed in the 1940s and 50s, with the pre-eminence of states in their blueprint and post-War hierarchies at their heart.

We live in an age of multiple paradoxes.

Every generation has its iconic struggle for equality, from the civil rights movement to the push towards gender parity.

I hear lots of talk – sometimes in public and often in private – about the role of big NGOs in development.

French | Spanish Dear friend, Six decades after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted, creating a global covenant affirming the fact that ‘all human beings are born equal in dignity and rights,’ the vision lies in tatters, made worthless by the ever-increasing chasm between haves and have-nots.

This article captures the background and events of November 2013 in Kenya.

Mozynah is currently participating in CIVICUSs UN learning Exchange program for citizens of an African country.

On 28th January 2014, I attended the 18th Session of the United Nations Universal Period Review (UPR) on Cambodia.

On 29 January 2014, I attended the side meeting on Yemen, organized by CIVICUS and its partners, as well as the 18th Session of the United Nations Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on Yemen.