This year, civil society summoned by CIVICUS comes together in Belgrade for the International Civil Society Week, to face the most pressing issues affecting our democracies, such as attacks on activists, the role of the media and the construction of collective impact. Español
This four-part series explores the media environment in northeastern Syria. The first three articles will analyse the media context of Rojava, and the last one of al-Raqqa and its surroundings.
There is truth to the current representation of the situation in Venezuela. But it’s far from the full picture, and what’s missing are the many stories of remarkable acts of conviction and compassion. Español
North Korea is rebuilding its ability to launch missiles and the US has got a spy plane in place to watch them – and the Americans are quietly continuing their military exercises with the South too.
تتناول هذه السلسلة المكونة من أربعة أجزاء، والتي يكتبها الباحثان والأكاديميان، الإيطالي أنريكو دي إنجليس، والسوري يزن بدران، بيئة الإعلام في شمال شرق سوريا. وستركز المقالات الثلاث الأولى على تحليل السياق الإعلامي في روجافا، فيما ستُخصص المقالة الرابعة للحديث عن الرقة ومحيطها. هنا مقدمة السلسلة.
We are violating the fundamental principles of Mutual Assured Destruction – and there seems to be a lack of awareness, let alone alarm, about this in mainstream western commentaries.
Next month the case against British arms sales to Saudi Arabia for use in Yemen goes to the Court of Appeal. Meanwhile the Foreign Secretary continues the long British tradition of putting arms company profits before human lives.
Episode 7 of a podcast series about the socio-political climate faced by Syrians and their host communities through their own eyes as the pressure rises for refugees to return to Syria.
Politicians, media and some academics have spent years peddling narratives that racism and Islamophobia are the ‘will of the people’, but the facts tell a very different story.
