Social movements need to embrace participatory media practices to organize in their struggles against an extractivist economic model A hugely significant bill has been...
A recently released UNESCO report confirms comprehensively what many of us have sensed: the rise of social media and digital communication platforms have...
The 50th anniversary celebrations of NGO CSW/NY, which organizes the civil society side of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)...
In 1985, following the hijacking of a Trans World Airlines flight by a Shi’ite Muslim group, UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher accused the...
Civil Society in the South needs to be empowered to prevent a new “Scramble for Africa” as tech giants seek to access and...
In a recent training session for current and would be journalists, a repeated question came up – can a journalist be an activist?...
Russia’s supreme court has ordered the closure of Memorial International, the country’s oldest human rights group. Memorial has joined a growing list of investigative...
Optimism brought about by drafting of new constitution dampened by polarizing presidential election Chile, a country known for being among the most prosperous and...
In its 2021 report on the Global State of Democracy, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) stated that “the number...
Thanks to the just-concluded UN climate summit COP26 (Glasgow, 31 Oct-12 November), conditions were just right to see climate change communication at its best, or...
There is widespread dismay at the spectre of former US President Donald Trump setting up his own social media app provocatively named TRUTH. A...
The last time a working journalist won the Nobel Peace Prize, Europe – and eventually nations around the globe - were on the...