Standing with Frontline Communities: Why Climate Action Must Happen Now
Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from Global Citizen
In a remote corner of the Amazon rainforest, a mother watches the river recede. The same water that once nourished her family’s crops and quenched their thirst is now dangerously low — the result of both drought and deforestation. Her...
Northern hemisphere heatwave underscores value of early-warning alerts
Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines
The blistering early-summer heatwave that’s brought life-threatening temperatures across much of the northern hemisphere is a worrying sign of things to come, UN weather experts said on Tuesday. Read the full story, “Northern hemisphere...
Gaza: Families deprived of the means for survival, humanitarians warn
Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines
The United Nations on Tuesday reported that humanitarian operations in Gaza are facing escalating strain, as ongoing fuel shortages, access restrictions and military activity continue to undermine aid delivery and essential services....
Sudan: UN warns of soaring displacement and looming floods
Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines
UN humanitarians on Tuesday sounded the alarm over worsening humanitarian conditions in Sudan, as escalating violence continues to displace civilians and the rising risk of severe flooding during the current rainy season. Read the full...
Children’s lives ‘turned upside down’ by wars across Middle East, North Africa, warns UNICEF
Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines
Conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa in the last two years reportedly killed, maimed, or displaced over 12 million children across the region, according to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Read the full story, “Children’s lives...
Iran crisis: UN stays and delivers
Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines
A clearer picture of needs across Iran is beginning to emerge after the conflict this month with Israel, which left hundreds dead, several hospitals hit and a spike in Afghan refugees returning home, the UN’s top official in Tehran said...
‘The margins of the budget’: Gender equality in developing countries underfunded by $420 billion annually
Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines
Developing countries currently face a staggering $420 billion annual gap in the funding needed to achieve gender equality, UN Women estimates. This gap means that programmes and services for women and girls are chronically underfunded....
50 years of CITES: Shielding wildlife from trade-driven extinction
Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) marks 50 years since it entered into force on Tuesday, celebrating five decades of protecting endangered wildlife from overexploitation through...
Spain and Brazil push global action to tax the super-rich and curb inequality
Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines
Spain and Brazil have launched a joint initiative to promote a higher tax take from the super-rich worldwide, aiming to tackle soaring inequality by ensuring those with the most, pay their fair share. Read the full story, “Spain and...
General Assembly approves $5.4 billion UN peacekeeping budget for 2025-2026
Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines
The General Assembly on Monday approved a $5.38 billion budget for UN peacekeeping operations for the 2025-2026 fiscal year, down slightly from the previous year, as delegates wrapped up weeks of negotiations amid warnings about...
7 Tips for Writing an Effective Email to Your Elected Official
Monday, June 30, 2025 from Global Citizen
One of the key principles of a healthy democracy is that citizens can and should be able to make their elected officials know of any problems or concerns they have. But in the day and age of sliding into someone’s DMs, leaving comments...
Nature Doesn’t Need Visas: How a Tree Followed Me From Exile to Activism
Monday, June 30, 2025 from Global Citizen
Climate change displacement is a growing phenomenon that has been becoming relentless as the climate crisis remains unsolved. Thousands of people have had to flee their nations as their homelands become uninhabitable. Contributor to ...
Gaza: UN urges Israel to allow fuel into Strip
Monday, June 30, 2025 from Global Issues News Headlines
The crisis in Gaza is worsening, UN humanitarians warned on Monday, as ongoing hostilities and access restrictions drive displaced communities deeper into despair. Read the full story, “Gaza: UN urges Israel to allow fuel into Strip”, on...
An Open Letter for World Leaders at This Year’s Financing for Development Conference
Saturday, June 28, 2025 from Global Citizen
Dear World Leaders, We’re running out of time: climate change is the single greatest challenge facing humanity. While budgets for international aid and climate action are being cut in key donor countries, we call on you to support...
UAE: 24 Defendants Sentenced to Life Imprisonment
Friday, June 27, 2025 from
Click to expand Image UAE Minister of State and CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber talks during the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week's opening ceremony, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, January 16, 2023. © 2023...
Africa’s Energy Future Is in Good Hands With a Youth-led Approach
Friday, June 27, 2025 from Global Citizen
From June 18 to 20, Cape Town hosted the 2025 Youth Energy Summit (YES!) , bringing together young innovators, policy thinkers, entrepreneurs, and climate advocates from across the continent. Among them were young changemakers selected...
Kyrgyzstan: Parliament Weakens Torture Protection, Media Freedom
Friday, June 27, 2025 from
Click to expand Image The parliament (Supreme Council) of the Kyrgyz Republic. Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. © Mariusz Prusaczyk via Getty Images (Bishkek, June 27, 2025) – Kyrgyzstan’s parliament on June 25, 2025, passed two draft laws that...
Ecuador: Public Integrity Law Endangers Children
Friday, June 27, 2025 from
(New York) – Reforms passed by Ecuador’s National Assembly and signed by President Daniel Noboa severely threaten children’s rights and fail to protect children who are recruited or used by organized crime groups, Human Rights Watch...
El Salvador: Police Officers Speak Out About Abuses
Friday, June 27, 2025 from
Police search people bus passengers during the state of emergency in Santa Ana, El Salvador, June 30, 2022. © 2022 MARVIN RECINOS/AFP via Getty Images Interviews with police officers and internal police documents reveal abusive practices...
Kenya: Hold Authorities Accountable for Protesters’ Deaths
Thursday, June 26, 2025 from
Click to expand Image Riot police patrol during a protest on June 25, 2025, in Nairobi, Kenya. Today's demonstration marks the first anniversary of the 2024 anti- Finance Bill protests. © 2025 Photo by Donwilson Odhiambo/Getty Images...
Philippines: Trans Rights Activist Murdered
Thursday, June 26, 2025 from
Click to expand Image Ali Jejhon Macalintal during a protest rally in General Santos City, Philippines. © Karapatan (Manila) – A hooded gunman in General Santos City in the southern Philippines carried out an apparent targeted...
Journalism Isn’t Just My Career. It’s How I Fight for Equity and Inclusion in Tunisia
Thursday, June 26, 2025 from Global Citizen
Nada Mansour is a journalist, radio host, and media development expert based in Tunisia, where civic space is repressed . She works for a private radio station called Express FM, which benefits from the International Fund for Public...
How Quilombola and Ribeirinho Communities Are Defending the Amazon — And Why It Matters
Thursday, June 26, 2025 from Global Citizen
In the depths of Brazil's vast Amazon rainforest, communities that have lived in harmony with nature for generations are now fighting to protect both their way of life and the forest itself. Known as Brazil’s Traditional Peoples and...
Is Your Business Changing Lives? You Could Win the Global Citizen and PayPal Small Business Impact Award
Thursday, June 26, 2025 from Global Citizen
Global Citizen and PayPal have come together to launch the Global Citizen and PayPal Small Business Impact Awards , a new initiative aimed at recognizing and supporting small business owners and entrepreneurs who are using commerce as a...
Norway Has a Secret Weapon in the Fight for Global Aid — But Will They Use It?
Thursday, June 26, 2025 from Global Citizen
It’s no secret that the world is not living up to its promise for developed countries to deliver much-needed aid to countries that cannot adequately address health, hunger, and educational issues with their domestic budgets. Despite the...
Türkiye: Jailed Mayor’s Lawyer Detained
Thursday, June 26, 2025 from
Click to expand Image Lawyers from Istanbul Bar Association protest the detention of Mehmet Pehlivan, lawyer to jailed mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, and other detained lawyers. Istanbul, June 23, 2025. © 2025 İstanbul Bar Association (İstanbul,...
UN Financing Development Meeting Should Advance Tax Justice
Thursday, June 26, 2025 from
Click to expand Image An activist holds up a button as negotiations for the tax convention take place at the United Nations in New York, February 6, 2025. © 2025 Anne Marte Skaland (Seville) – The United Nations conference on...
Ethiopia: Crackdown on Health Workers’ Protests
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 from
Click to expand Image A doctor visits a patient at the emergency ward of the Suhul General Hospital in Shire, Ethiopia, October 11, 2024. © 2024 MICHELE SPATARI/AFP via Getty Images (Nairobi) – The Ethiopian authorities should...
Bangladesh: Foreign Aid Cuts Affect Rohingya Children’s Education
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 from
Click to expand Image A Rohingya girl walks past shelters in a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 9, 2025. © 2025 Abdullah Bawshore US and other foreign donor cutbacks in humanitarian aid have worsened the existing education...
6 Innovative Solutions to Restore the Amazon Rainforest
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 from Global Citizen
The estimated 400 billion trees of the Amazon rainforest are not just beautiful; they are vital to the health of our planet and our survival . These trees help regulate the global climate , provide habitat for 10% of the world's known...
Turkmenistan: Imprisoned Activist Faces New Dubious Charges
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 from
Click to expand Image Murad Dushemov, February 2020 © Private (Berlin, June 25, 2025) – Turkmenistan’s authorities have brought new charges against an imprisoned activist who had been scheduled for release earlier in June 2025,...
New Global Coalition Urges Rights-Based Climate Relocation Policies
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 from
Click to expand Image The Coalition on Dignified Climate-related Planned Relocation, New York City, June 19, 2025. © 2025 Human Rights Watch Last week, Human Rights Watch hosted the launch of the “Coalition on Dignified...
UN Human Rights Office Calls for Action on ‘Transnational Repression’
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 from
Click to expand Image United Nations European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, September 11, 2023. © 2023 Denis Balibouse/Reuters Last week, the United Nations Human Rights Office issued its first ever guidance paper on...
Haiti: Displacement Hits Record as Security Efforts Fall Short
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 from
Children live in makeshift sites as growing insecurity, particularly in the capital, is forcing families to flee their former shelters in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on April 16, 2025. © 2025 Guerinault Louis/Anadolu via Getty Images...
South Korea: Human Rights Issues for New Government
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 from
Click to expand Image South Korea's President Lee Jae-myung during his inauguration ceremony at the National Assembly in Seoul, June 4, 2025. © 2025 Anthony Wallace/AP Photo (Seoul) – South Korea’s new government should adopt...
Rwanda: Opposition Leader Arrested
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 from
Click to expand Image Opposition politician and president of the Dalfa-Umurinzi party, Victoire Ingabire, at the High Court in Kigali on March 13, 2024. © 2025 Photo by Guillem Sartorio / AFP via Getty Images (Nairobi) – The Rwandan...
Resurgence of Suicide Bombings in Nigeria’s Boko Haram Conflict
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 from
Click to expand Image A victim of a recent wave of suicide attacks arrives for treatment at a hospital in Maiduguri on June 29, 2024. © 2024 Audu Marte/AFP via Getty Images On the night of June 21, a woman detonated an improvised...
Human Rights Council Members Should Reject Eritrea’s Bid to End Scrutiny
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 from
Click to expand Image Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea, Mohamed Abdelsalam Babiker, during the 55th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, February 28, 2024. © 2024 Fabrice...
Kazakhstan: Abused Woman Facing Murder Conspiracy Retrial
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 from
Click to expand Image Elvira Erkebayeva © Private (Berlin, June 24, 2025) – A woman from western Kazakhstan who experienced two decades of severe domestic abuse by her former husband is to be retried for allegedly conspiring to murder...
Prominent Critic of Guinean Junta Abducted, Tortured
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 from
Click to expand Image Mohamed Traoré, Guinea 2024. © 2024 Private In Guinea early on Saturday morning, at least a half-dozen heavily armed men broke into the home of Mohamed Traoré, a prominent lawyer and former bar association...
Why Indigenous Land Rights Are Key to Protecting the Amazon
Monday, June 23, 2025 from Global Citizen
Scattered across the nine countries that share the Amazon Basin — from Brazil to Colombia to Peru — live more than 400 distinct Indigenous nations, speaking over 300 languages . Each group has its own customs, traditions, and deep...
Recovery Is Key to Resistance — Here's What 30 Years of Queer Activism Taught Me
Friday, June 20, 2025 from Global Citizen
Editor’s Note: The following article contains brief descriptions of intimidation and assault. Ekaterine Aghdgomelashvili is a feminist and queer activist from Georgia, with nearly three decades of experience in both formal and...
The Fight for Health Equity Starts at The Frontline. Here’s Why Gavi Needs You
Friday, June 20, 2025 from Global Citizen
The quest to strengthen global health systems goes beyond the work of organizations like Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, that champion this cause. It’s also about the unsung heroes. Like the volunteer who goes the extra mile to deliver...
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, Just Secured Billions to Protect the Next Generation: How We Got Here, and What Comes Next
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 from Global Citizen
For 25 years now, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance has helped build a safer, healthier, more equitable world. With the support of governments, civil society, and communities, Gavi has helped immunize over 1.1 billion children over just a few...
Deforestation Is Pushing the Amazon to Collapse — Here's How We Can Stop It and Why We Need Your Help
Wednesday, June 11, 2025 from Global Citizen
Picture this: you're reading this article, maybe sipping your coffee or on your way to work. In the minute it takes to get to the end of this piece, the world will have lost rainforest land equivalent to 10 football (soccer) fields ....
How the Amazon Is Key to a Cooler Planet
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 from Global Citizen
By now, we’re all aware of the climate crisis — the rapid shifts in the earth’s climate driven primarily by human activities like burning fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and gas. These actions release greenhouse gases that trap heat in...
Why Is the Global Social Justice Coalition Important for Young People?
Monday, June 9, 2025 from Global Citizen
The time has never been more ripe for social justice to be at the top of every global agenda. Social justice is about fairness, equal rights, and making sure everyone has the same opportunities — no matter who they are or where they...
J Balvin, Doja Cat, and Tems to Headline First-Ever FIFA Club World Cup™ Halftime Show
Monday, June 9, 2025 from Global Citizen
Today, FIFA and Global Citizen announced that J Balvin, Doja Cat and Tems will headline the inaugural FIFA Club World Cup™️ Halftime Show on Sunday, 13 July 2025, firing up the MetLife Stadium in New York New Jersey. The show will...
How Taily Terena Became the Voice of an Indigenous Nation
Thursday, June 5, 2025 from Global Citizen
Bees don’t so much buzz as they do hum. The sound emanating from a single tiny bee can fill a room, announcing its presence. Alone, its hum is a robust serenade, a tenor tune that eases its way out on a warm day. But joined by a swarm,...
The Amazon Rainforest: Our Planet's Lungs at Risk – Why We Must Act Now
Monday, June 2, 2025 from Global Citizen
Deep in South America lies the Amazon rainforest, which is the largest tropical rainforest on earth and is located across nine countries: Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. It spans...