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On Tuesday Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack in Nairobi. Forum Syd speaks to people close to the scenes.

Anna Stenvinkel will be the next Secretary-General for Sweden's largest civil society platform, Forum Syd. She will take office on February 25th.

After several decades of conflict, Somalia is stabilizing. In its reconstruction, the diaspora plays a special role.

The peace process in the contested land area between Puntland and Somaliland would benefit from greater inclusion of women, Forum Syd’s partner Amal testifies.

Three years ago world leaders agreed on 17 goals for a better world by 2030. Let’s celebrate by showing that people coming together in civil society have the power to change!

More women chose to report rape cases to the police in Somaliland, putting perpetrators behind bars while challenging the customary settlements through the traditional courts.

The Erley Monroy Peasant School is becoming a valuable instrument to qualify and increase the legitimacy of the peasant reserve zones as a useful territorial development model for peacebuilding in...

Civil Society organisation work with several strategies to deal and overcome the adversities.

New report from Forum Syd shows that threats and violence against human rights defenders and attacks on civic freedoms have escalated in many parts of the world. In 2017, over 300 human rights...

To survive on the streets, Dash Jonte, as he is popularly known, dropped out of school and had to rely on his six friends, who became his new supportive family.

2017 has seen a remarkable improvement for women in electoral politics in Kenya.

Spoken word artists like Mufasa are expanding the civic space from traditional opinion pieces and commentaries to innovative and alternative voices addressing social injustices.

The substantial financial flows to developing countries that remittances from emigrated persons give rise to are increasingly gaining recognition from larger actors in the aid sector.

They revolutionize dairy production, create sustainable paint and establish new platforms for online sales.

Meet Elizabeth Chepkorir Bartaa, a woman who has undergone a remarkable turnaround from a serial female circumciser to a fierce women’s rights champion.

Meet Kirimi Eunice Karegi, the newly elected Member of County Assembly for Kiagu Ward.

The advance of technology, innovation and the digital revolution in the world may mask the high untapped access to technology by women.

That is a question Pervana Mammadova, from Azerbaijan based gender organization YUVA, can be asked by gender experts.

Sixty participants from civil society in Sweden and Eastern Partnership region will discuss necessary reforms in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, and how to make these...

Recently a unique meeting took place in Minsk, Belarus. Political opposition and civil society representatives were given an opportunity to discuss the human rights’ situation in Belarus with their...