N MACEDONIA: ‘Without Ads, Most Civil Society Groups Risk Their Voices Being Drowned Out’

Interviews 01 October 2025 CIVICUS discusses Facebook owner Meta’s political ad ban in the European Union (EU) with Filip Stojanovski, Director for Partnership and Resource Development at the Metamorphosis Foundation, a civil society organisation...

Civil Service as a Career Choice in Pakistan

Published on: October 3, 2025 3:32 PM A seminar titled “Civil Service as a Career Choice in Pakistan” was organized at the Hafiz Hayat Campus by the University of Gujrat’s Student Services Center in collaboration with the Department of Political...

Mahama convenes faith and civil society leaders in high-stakes galamsey talks today

President John Mahama will today, Friday, October 3, host a high-level meeting with civil society organisations (CSOs) and key stakeholders to tackle the devastation caused by illegal mining, aka galamsey. The engagement will bring together...

Civil society slams ad targeting journalists, NGOs

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: Media watchdog Freedom Network, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), and other rights groups have condemned a government advertisement in major newspapers for portraying journalists, freelancers, NGO workers, and civil...

Review: Tom Holland’s ‘Pax’, The Folio Society edition, is immersive Roman history

‘Pax’ is the third book from historian Tom Holland’s extensive bibliography to receive an exclusive luxury edition courtesy of The Folio Society. It now joins his magisterial sweep through Western civilisation in ‘Dominion’ and account of the fall...

WP leaders close bank account used to fund-raise for AHTC case, donate balance to charity

SINGAPORE – Workers’ Party (WP) leaders involved in long-running civil suits brought against them by two town councils have closed their joint bank account used to raise funds from the public, and donated the remaining monies to charity. WP chief...

Strengthening civil society-State collaboration key to risk reduction

Tonderayi Matonho is a journalist exploring disability inclusivity, participation, integration and management debate across communities. DISASTER recovery and risk reduction are most effective when the State provides an improved enabling...

Karachi civil society protests detention of Pakistani activists onboard Gaza flotilla, demands release

Civil society and advocacy groups gathered on Thursday outside the Karachi Press Club to protest against the detention of activists aboard the Gaza Sumud Flotilla (GSF), calling on the government to demand the release of the Pakistani delegation,...

Civil society must be ‘at the heart’ of cross-sector collaboration, says ex-Shelter CEO

Civil society must play a key role in the cross-sector collaboration needed to solve the UK’s social issues, the former boss of homelessness charity Shelter has said. Speaking at a Bayes Business School event in London yesterday on creating social...

Professor Says Army Must Earn Society’s Respect

Department of Defence One of the world’s pre-eminent experts on civil-military relations said Army’s role in society was an integral, yet often under-appreciated, concept of the modern soldier. Risa Brooks, Professor of Political Science at...

When civil society is attacked in one country, it creates a dangerous precedent that others may be tempted to follow. Transparency International Anticorruption Center

Transparency International Anticorruption Center Statement of Solidarity with Transparency International Georgia Transparency International Anticorruption Center stands in strong solidarity with our colleagues at Transparency International Georgia...

Ann Fagan Ginger, venerable defender of civil liberties, dies at 100

A photo of the diminutive woman atop a police car, surrounded by a rapt audience, appeared in newspapers around the country. Alarmed, the university urged the FBI to investigate her. But the bureau didn’t need to be told. By then, it already had a...

Why a new birth cohort study matters for civil servants across the UK

Children born today will grow up in a very different world to that experienced by previous generations. That world has been shaped by era-defining changes in technology (including the growth of the digital world), society (including dramatic...

MSF: Israeli strike killed 14th medical charity member in Gaza

MSF staffer Omar al-Hayek, 42, was killed in a strike in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, with four colleagues wounded, sparking outrage from the aid group. [Getty] Doctors Without Borders on Thursday said an Israeli strike had killed one its workers, the...

Gaza civil defence says 13 killed in Israeli strikes

Israeli strikes killed at least 13 people across Gaza on Thursday, the territory’s civil defence agency said, including an employee of the French charity Doctors Without Borders. Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal, whose rescue agency operates...

Central government in Spain grants over one million euros to locate and exhume Andalucía's Civil War victims

Thursday, 2 October 2025, 21:28 Share Spain's central government this week approved September a Royal Decree giving the power to Andalusian provincial authorities and town halls for the search, location, exhumation and identification of the...

Baldwin County Genealogical Society to host historian Mike Bunn on Antebellum Mobile

GCM Staff Report The Baldwin County Genealogical Society will welcome historian Mike Bunn on Oct. 11 for a presentation titled “The Southern Metropolis: Life in Antebellum Mobile.” The program begins at 10 a.m. in the meeting room of the Foley...

AFRICA/DR CONGO - Appeal from South Kivu civil society: "Territorial integrity must be respected and the local population must be included in the peace talks"

Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – The populations in war-torn areas must not be ignored by not being invited to negotiations to resolve the conflicts that affect them. This is what a group of personalities and traditional leaders from South Kivu civil...

The Battle Over Civil Society

An interview with Dylan J. Riley on Trump and the state of American democracy. John Ganz ▪ October 1, 2025 J.D. Vance hosts The Charlie Kirk Show from the White House on September 15 (Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images) Over the past decade,...

Covenant will require ‘new way of funding and commissioning’ to succeed, says charity CEO

The Civil Society Covenant will require “a new way of funding and commissioning” to succeed, the chief executive of the Lloyds Bank Foundation has said. Earlier this week, People’s Postcode Lottery hosted a fringe event at the Labour Party...