Examples from Ethiopia, Egypt, and Russia indicate that as civic space shrinks, traditional models of professionalized civil society work come under pressure.
Climate Action Network Director Wael Hmaidan discusses the prospects for a legally binding agreement coming from climate talks in Paris at the end of the month.
The A4P process doesn’t introduce fresh proposals, but Security Council members can make good use of it to review their expectations of existing UN…
If peacebuilding and sustaining peace is about inclusion, amplifying marginalized voices, and transforming otherwise violent scenarios into non-violent conversations, then taking advantage of the spaces football creates is essential.
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