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<p> CIVICUS discusses the challenges posed by Paraguay’s ‘anti-NGO law’ with Hugo González, executive director of the Paraguayan Network of LGBTQ+ Artists (REPAR+), a civil society organisation (CSO) that promotes the rights of LGBTQI+ people, which has joined the constitutional challenge against this law. </p><p><a href="https://www.globalissues.org/news/2026/08/14/43816">Read the full story, “PARAGUAY: ‘Transparency Should Strengthen Democracy, Not Turn Criticism of Those in Power into a Cause for Suspicion’”, on globalissues.org</a> →</p>

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<p><img src="https://static.globalissues.org/ips/2026/08/Committee-to-Protect-Journalists_.jpg" width="640" alt="" /></p><p> UNITED NATIONS, August 14 (IPS) - Pakistan, one of few South Asian countries to oscillate between democratic governments and authoritarian regimes, is cracking down on journalists, including foreign correspondents covering the political situation in the world’s fifth most populous nation, with an estimated population of over 250 million people and ranking behind India, China, the United States, and Indonesia. </p><p><a href="https://www.globalissues.org/news/2026/08/14/43815">Read the full story, “Pakistan’s Crackdown on Journalists Comes Under Heavy Fire”, on globalissues.org</a> →</p>

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<p>As amber heat-health alerts spread across England this summer, a new study has found that the warnings are being received – but not changing behaviour.</p><p><a href="https://www.globalissues.org/news/2026/08/14/43828">Read the full story, “‘Warned but not protected’: Four in ten adults in England ignore heat alerts”, on globalissues.org</a> →</p>

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<p>The Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) – the fastest-growing on record and on track to become the deadliest – is killing one person every 30 minutes.</p><p><a href="https://www.globalissues.org/news/2026/08/14/43827">Read the full story, “‘Ebola is winning’: Epidemic now killing one person every 30 minutes”, on globalissues.org</a> →</p>

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<p>Humanitarians continue to provide life-saving assistance to people across the Occupied Palestinian Territory despite facing obstacles such as checkpoints, instability and access restrictions, the United Nations said on Friday. </p><p><a href="https://www.globalissues.org/news/2026/08/14/43826">Read the full story, “900 obstacles and counting: West Bank families trapped as aid access shrinks”, on globalissues.org</a> →</p>

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<p>Across the world, healthcare has suffered more than 10,000 attacks in the past eight years, including during the brutal conflict in Ukraine and efforts to contain the current Ebola outbreak spreading rapidly in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). </p><p><a href="https://www.globalissues.org/news/2026/08/14/43825">Read the full story, “An attack on healthcare every six hours, and no one held to account”, on globalissues.org</a> →</p>

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<p>Authorities in Iran intercepted 3,663 kilogrammes of methamphetamines headed for Europe and the Persian Gulf in the first quarter of 2026, according to the UN’s drugs and crime fighting agency (UNODC).</p><p><a href="https://www.globalissues.org/news/2026/08/14/43824">Read the full story, “Meth trafficking across Middle East becoming more advanced, UNODC warns”, on globalissues.org</a> →</p>

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<p><img src="https://global.unitednations.entermediadb.net/assets/mediadb/services/module/asset/downloads/preset/Collections/Embargoed/2026/08/03-08-2026-UNFPA-Sudan-01.jpg/image1170x530cropped.jpg" width="640" alt="" /></p><p>Sudanese women about to give birth are losing their babies and sometimes their own lives because of a lack of specialist healthcare support, amid the ongoing war, UN humanitarians said on Friday.</p><p><a href="https://www.globalissues.org/news/2026/08/14/43823">Read the full story, “Sudan: The harrowing reality of giving birth in a war zone”, on globalissues.org</a> →</p>

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<p><img src="https://static.globalissues.org/ips/2026/08/lady-justice.jpg" width="640" alt="" /></p><p> NAIROBI, August 13 (IPS) - Women’s rights advocates, judges and lawyers have launched a coordinated campaign to reform family laws that discriminate against women and girls in Africa. </p><p><a href="https://www.globalissues.org/news/2026/08/13/43812">Read the full story, “African Rights Advocates Coordinate Response to Family Law Backlash”, on globalissues.org</a> →</p>

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<p><img src="https://static.globalissues.org/ips/2017/09/flood-in-bangladesh.jpg" width="640" alt="" /></p><p> DHAKA, Bangladesh, August 13 (IPS) - Dhaka’s recent and recurrent flooding is often treated as a natural disaster, but rain is only the trigger. The deeper causes are political, planning and ecological failure: wetland loss, canal encroachment, unplanned growth, weak enforcement, fragmented institutions and short-term engineering fixes. Dhaka is not drowning because it rains; it is drowning because it has been built as if water had nowhere to go. </p><p><a href="https://www.globalissues.org/news/2026/08/13/43811">Read the full story, “Why Dhaka Floods Every Monsoon”, on globalissues.org</a> →</p>