The Civil Society Newswire

• The Fourth Annual Media For Social Impact Summit Encourages Media Leaders to Promote the Use of Media for Social Change

  PVBLIC Foundation and the United Nations Office for Partnerships will host the fourth annual Media for Social Impact Summit, on September 14th, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. This year’s summit will unite 200 top media executives to foster intelligent conversation about the power of media to...(read more...)

• Minamata Convention, Curbing Mercury Use, is Now Legally Binding

  Informal gold mining is one of the main sources of mercury contamination. An artisanal gold miner in El Corpus, Choluteca along the Pacific ocean in Honduras. Credit: Thelma Mejía/IPS. ROME, Aug 16 2017 (IPS) - The Minamata Convention — a legally-binding landmark treaty, described as the first new environmental agreement...(read more...)

• Yemen: African Migrants Beaten, Starved, Sexually Violated by Criminal Groups

  By Baher Kamal Map of the Horn of Africa. Source: United Nations, Department of Peacekeeping Operations, Cartographic Section. Public Domain ROME, Aug 14 2017 (IPS) - African migrants who arrive on Yemen’s shores –that’s if they are not forced into the sea to drown—risk to fall in the hands of criminal networks...(read more...)

• Women Build Rural Infrastructure in Bangladesh

  By Shahiduzzaman Women laborers engage in a development project in Bangladesh. Credit: LGED DHAKA, Aug 13 2017 (IPS) - Breaking all the social barriers and taboos, poor women in Bangladesh are now engaged in rural development works across the country as labourers. The Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) of Bangladesh initiated the...(read more...)

• Smugglers Throw Hundreds of African Migrants Off Boats Headed to Yemen

  By IPS World Desk     IOM staff assists Somali and Ethiopian migrants who were forced into the sea by smugglers. Credit: UN Migration Agency (IOM) ROME, Aug 11 2017 (IPS) - A total of 300 migrants have reportedly been forced from boats over the past two days by smugglers...(read more...)