SANTIAGO, Sep 29 (IPS) - Mario Lubetkin is FAO Assistant Director-General and FAO Regional Representative for Latin America and the CaribbeanIn recent years, the population of Latin America and the Caribbean has seen a worrying increase...
NAIROBI, Sep 29 (IPS) - With current efforts to boost Africa's carbon credit production by 2030, experts believe the commitments will require Governments to switch from a voluntary to a compliance market by generating renewable energy...
BIJBEHARA, INDIA, Sep 29 (IPS) - Creating resilience is crucial to climate change justice. In Bijbehara, a hamlet south of Kashmir's capital, Srinagar, lavender farming has meant farmers grappling with unseasonal rains, prolonged heat...
BUENOS AIRES, Sep 29 (IPS) - In addition to being a majestic river - the second longest in South America after the Amazon - the Paraná River is the waterway through which a large part of the area's primary goods are exported. Today, its...
Over 88,000 refugees from the Karabakh region have fled to Armenia in less than a week and humanitarian needs are surging, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday. Read the full story, “Karabakh emergency escalates, thousands still...
The head of the UN, Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ) has urged governments to step up efforts to ensure that half of humanity is not shut out of the classroom. Read the full story, “UNESCO chief calls for...
South Sudan and Sudan are the world’s most dangerous countries for aid workers today, the UN humanitarian affairs coordination office (OCHA) said on Friday. Read the full story, “World News in Brief: Aid workers under threat, DR Congo...
The UN human rights office, OHCHR, on Friday expressed grave concern at the spate of recent arrests and convictions of human rights defenders pushing for clean energy reforms in Viet Nam. Read the full story, “Viet Nam: UN rights office...
The World Health Organization (WHO) is scaling up support in Sudan, where authorities have declared a cholera outbreak in Gedaref state amid the ongoing brutal conflict between opposing militaries. Read the full story, “Sudan: WHO...
More than 11,600 unaccompanied children have crossed the Central Mediterranean to Italy so far this year the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday, an increase of 60 per cent compared with last year. Read the full story,...
Japan passed a law in June to "promote understanding on diversity of sexual orientation and gender identity [of] and avoid unfair discrimination" based on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI), according to Human Rights Watch....
Few things in life compare to the rush of a good sports game. Whether you’re celebrating a win for your favorite team or throwing a ball around with friends, sports have a unique way of uniting people around the world. The lessons we...
Despite the rain, Global Citizens came out in full force on Sept. 23 to celebrate this year’s Global Citizen Festival in New York City and show how much they care about ending extreme poverty. The stage in Central Park welcomed...
On Sept. 23, 2023, more than 60,000 Global Citizens from around the world converged on Central Park’s Great Lawn in New York city for a powerful night of hope, celebration, and action-taking toward the world's most pressing issues. With...
At Global Citizen Festival 2023, global leaders pledged to end extreme poverty with monumental commitments including: $240 million for the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), with France and Norway calling on other...
We don’t have to tell you how dark the COVID-19 times were at their peak. There we were in 2020 and 2021, the threat of COVID-19 all around, many facing loneliness and loss, and with an uncertain future ahead. Enter: D-Nice. The veteran...
Having topped charts and taken TikTok by storm with hits like “Heather” and “Maniac,” Conan Gray is now also using his talents to inspire a new generation to join the movement of Global Citizens ending extreme poverty — and we can’t...
On Aug. 15, 2021, the Taliban marched into Kabul and everything changed for women and girls in the country. First came the bans on women and girls’ education . Then they were banned from working outside the home , prohibited from...
The 2023 Global Citizen Festival in New York City is mere days away; and we can’t wait to be joined by our incredible lineup of artists, performers, speakers, world leaders, activists, and 60,000 Global Citizens in the city’s iconic...
Global Citizen Festival is back, returning to New York City’s Central Park on Sept. 23, 2023. If you took action with Global Citizen and earned yourself a pair of tickets, you're already aware that the star-stunned lineup includes...
Sofia Carson seems to do it all. Not only is she known for her roles in Descendants and Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists , but she also graced the 2023 Oscars stage for a performance of the song “Applause” with Diane Warren....
Born in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Anitta has risen to stardom and made a name for herself as the Queen of Brazilian Pop . Her 2022 hit, “ Envolver ,” became the first Latin solo song to top the global Spotify chart and earned her...
At least 177 people were killed last year for defending the environment, according to the latest report produced annually for the past 11 years by the nonprofit Global Witness , with a fifth of killings taking place in the Amazon...
Food is essential to our very existence. It gives us energy for the day, but it’s also a way to connect with our friends, family, different cultures, and communities. Yet, access to food is not equal for everyone around the world. In...
It’s that time of the year! Global Citizen Festival returns to Central Park’s Great Lawn in New York City on Sept. 23, 2023, uniting 60,000 Global Citizens with the world’s leading artists and advocates in the mission to end extreme...
Rescue missions are underway in Libya following flooding that has taken the lives of over 5,300 people in Derna, an eastern port city in the country. A further 10,000 people are missing and about twice as many have been displaced, with...
This year, Ms Lauryn Hill celebrates the 25th anniversary of the release of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill . In 1998, aged 23 and at the beginning of her solo career having just left the hip-hop group Fugees, Hill released her first and...
On Sept. 15 and 17, tens of thousands of people will take to the streets to ask for one simple thing: end fossil fuels. The biggest cause of climate change are fossil fuels : coal, oil, and gas. Fossil fuel giants have known this for...
Editor's note: The situation in Morocco is actively evolving, as are the needs of citizens in the country. We will be keeping this list up to date with the evolving ways Global Citizens can help in the coming days and weeks. Over 2,800...
Cast your mind back to Paris in 2015. One of the most important climate agreements in history is being signed at COP21 by 196 countries in an endeavor to keep global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius, and ideally no more than 1.5...
By Dean Bhebhe, Campaigns Lead at Don’t Gas Africa , and Fran Witt, Gas Campaign Manager at Recourse . Africa is waiting with bated breath for the outcomes of the Africa Climate Summit in Nairobi, Kenya, underway from Sept. 4-6. The...
It seems whenever there’s a major crisis, someone sets up a stage, plugs in a microphone, and calls the world together through music. These are called benefit or charity concerts and they’re intended to raise money, awareness, or both,...
Dear G20 Leaders, We are writing to you ahead of the G20 leaders summit to request your urgent action. For the first time in a generation, the number of people living in extreme poverty is rising. The impacts of climate change,...
Imagine you’re on a bus traveling through a warzone. The bus collides with an oncoming vehicle and somersaults off a cliff. When you come to, everything is chaos around you. The friend you were traveling with is trapped, calling your...
By Sana Nakata , Principal Research Fellow at James Cook University Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and/or images of deceased people. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has...
It is no longer news that, despite the fact that Africa is responsible for less than 4% of global greenhouse emissions (which are the main driver of climate change), it is the region most vulnerable to the effects of the climate...
“A giant petri dish where everyone’s colliding.” “Like Model UN, but for grown-ups.” “A lot of people in suits who think they’re important.” “An absolute shitshow.” “ At 75… it’s got too many underlying pre-existing conditions to make it...
The year 2023 kicked off with former World Food Programme chief, David Beasely, warning us about how severe the current hunger crisis actually is. “We may not have enough food for everybody in 2023,” he said . But it doesn’t have to be...
The Limpopo sky is covered with clouds that threaten rain. Periodically a wind blows, agitating the cold air and stirring up dust devils. Zelda Masoga walks across the dry sand bed where potatoes were just harvested. She wears a...
Everyone knows the hustle and bustle of preparing for a new school year: fresh notebooks, new clothes, and an array of school supplies lined up ready for action. However, as we gear up for the new academic year, there's an additional yet...
Editor's note: This article contains mentions of sexual violence. No one could have predicted that the death of Mahsa Jina Amini , a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, would start the most significant uprising in Iran since the 1979...
As laid out in the Nigerian consitution : “Every person who is charged with a criminal offence shall be presumed to be innocent until he is proved guilty”. Despite this presumption of innocence enshrined in the constitution, however, ...
Imagine being forced to flee your home and everything you know, making the perilous journey to safe shores only to be marched onto a “ floating prison ” where, days later, Legionella, a potentially deadly bacteria, is found in the water...
If we don’t change the status quo, we may not achieve gender equality for another 300 years, according to the UN . Clearly, we have a long way to go despite having the UN’s global directive to achieve it for almost a decade. The same...
It’s that time of year again: festival season! We’re here to announce the best news of all: Global Citizen Festival will return to New York City on Sept. 23, 2023. It’s a free, ticketed event on the iconic Great Lawn of Central Park in...
Shhh… close your eyes. If you focus, you can feel the excitement of a crowd of citizens all around you. You can smell the bright fall day as you stand at the Great Lawn in Central Park. You can hear the sounds of some of the world’s...
Yesterday, the people of Ecuador went to the polls to decide, for the first time in history, the fate of oil extraction in the Ecuadorian Amazon — and they chose to keep fossil fuels in the ground. At the heart of the first-of-its-kind...
As American writer James Baldwin once said: “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." The sentiment behind this quote became a consistent theme throughout the Global Citizen Fellowship...
There’s more than one way to be an activist, and that is to say, there’s more than one way to raise your voice and speak up in the name of change. One of these ways is through art and creativity. In every fight for justice there is a...
Guatemalan prosecutor Virginia Laparra has been imprisoned since February 2022, after initiating an investigation into judge Lesther Castellanos for alleged acts of corruption. The judge had the case thrown out and, in turn, accused...