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#Peace & Community #European #Middle East #Asia #UN #North America #Oceanian #AfricanSaudi Arabia: Spate of Executions of Child Offenders
(Beirut) – Saudi authorities on October 20, 2025, executed a man convicted of alleged crimes committed as a child, Human Rights Watch said today. Abdullah al-Derazi had been sentenced to death on terrorism charges related to participating in protests and funeral processions. He was the 300th person executed by Saudi authorities in 2025.The authorities have been carrying out executions at anunprecedented rate in 2025...
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At “No Kings” Rally During Government Shutdown, Federal Workers Speak Out
Millions turned out for massive “No Kings” protests nationwide. In Boston, amid the speeches, federal workers shared their struggles to protect public services.
Published on: October 20, 2025 | Source:How to Help International Nonprofits, Including the Mexican Nonprofits That Came to Texas’s Aid
When tragedy struck Texas last summer, volunteers from Mexican nonprofits came to help. Here’s how to support them and other nonprofits around the globe.
Published on: October 20, 2025 | Source:How to Develop a Community Housing Vision for Puerto Rico
Bad Bunny’s recent 31-concert residency in Puerto Rico highlighted the archipelago’s housing and displacement crisis. But what’s the solution? A community ownership approach could make housing more affordable and accessible to locals.
Published on: October 20, 2025 | Source:Time for Nonprofits to Generate Their Own Revenue for Political Power
Nonprofits have long underinvested in political lobbying. For arts and culture organizations selling tickets to customers, a $1 “advocacy” fee could be a steady funding mechanism to build political power.
Published on: October 20, 2025 | Source:Feminist Foreign Policy During a Global Backlash
Click to expand Image Thousands of people take to the streets of Barcelona, Spain, in a massive demonstration for International Women's Day, March 8, 2025. 2025 Albert Llop/NurPhoto via Getty Images When governments convene this week in Paris for a conference on feminist foreign policy, there will be a lot to talk about. The French government’s description of the event laments that progress toward gender equality “is...
Published on: October 20, 2025 | Source:Iran: Three Prisoners Dead after Denied Medical Care
Click to expand Image Exterior view of Evin prison. Wikipedia (Beirut) – Three women died in Qarchak prison, aTehran women’s prison notorious for abysmal conditions, between September 16 and 25, 2025, following a lack of medical care, Human Rights Watch said today.The deaths in custody of Soudabeh Asadi, Jamile Azizi, and 42-year-old political prisoner Somayeh Rashidi highlight Iranian authorities’ violation of...
Published on: October 20, 2025 | Source:EU Launches New LGBTIQ+ Strategy
Click to expand Image Flags of the Europe waving in front of the Le Berlaymont building, headquarters of the European Commission, in Brussels, Belgium in April 2024. 2024 Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via AP Photo This month, the European Commission released itsLGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy 2026–2030, a renewed and ambitious step in the European Union’s commitment to equality, inclusion, and human rights. Building on the2020–...
Published on: October 20, 2025 | Source:Japan Should Defend the International Criminal Court
Click to expand Image Japanese Diet member Yasue Funayama speaks at a nongovernmental organization event to advocate for Japan to step up its efforts to defend the International Criminal Court, Tokyo, October 9, 2025. 2025 Haruka Miyata/Human Rights Watch On October 9, Human Rights Watch with Tokyo-basedHuman Rights Now andPeace Boat held anevent at the Japanese Diet to press the Japanese government to step up its...
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:Can Nonprofits Restrain Trump’s Autism Agenda?
Trump administration policies will restrict services to autistic people. Millions will be affected. Nonprofits, however, can get informed and support the autism community.
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:Why We Need a Solidarity Economy Now
As the US faces historic cuts to the social safety net, local economic alternatives can meet basic needs and provide opportunities to organize for a better future.
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:Ceasefire or Not, EU Should Keep Pressure on Israel to End Abuses
Click to expand Image Israeli soldiers look on as Palestinian men and women carry their belongings on May 2, 2025 amid ongoing Israeli military operations and demolition of homes in Tulkarem refugee camp. Israeli forces had emptied the refugee camp of its inhabitants weeks prior. 2025 Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP via Getty Images As European Union leaders and foreign ministers prepare for meetings to discuss the situation in...
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:For the US, a 180-Degree Turn on Refugees
Click to expand Image Some of the dozens of white South Africans who accepted an invitation from the Trump administration to come to the United States as refugees arrived at an air hangar near Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia on May 12, 2025. 2025 Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The Trump administration is poised to mount a two-pronged attack on refugee resettlement. The first prong is quantitative:...
Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source:Chad: Constitutional Change Threatens Rule of Law, Democracy
Click to expand Image Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Déby (C) arrives for his inauguration at the Palace of Arts and Culture in N'Djamena on May 23, 2024. Photo by JORIS BOLOMEY/AFP via Getty Images (Nairobi) –Chad’s new constitutional amendment abolishing presidential term limits is a serious setback for the rule of law and democracy, Human Rights Watch said today. Thechange paves the way for President Mahamat...
Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source:Florida Faculty and Students Organize Against Campus ICE Agreements
In Florida, 13 post-secondary schools have signed agreements that deputize campus police to enforce immigration law. Students and faculty are resisting.
Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source:How Nonprofits Can Strengthen Their Finances in Turbulent Times
The current political and economic circumstances pose steep financial challenges for nonprofits. It also presents an opportunity to address systemic financial vulnerabilities, some that long predate the current administration.
Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source:Protecting Immigrant Rights, One Drink at a Time
Selling tequila and mezcal is about more than supplying drinks to customers. Part of the work is building community, and that includes standing up for immigrant rights.
Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source:China: No Letup in Forced Returns to North Korea
Click to expand Image Chinese paramilitary police at the Beijing airport prepare for the departure of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on June 20, 2018. 2018 Greg Backer/AFP via Getty Images (Seoul) – Chinese authorities since 2024 have forcibly returned at least 406 people toNorth Korea, where they are at grave risk of persecution and ill-treatment, Human Rights Watch said today.The Chinese government’s forced return...
Published on: October 15, 2025 | Source:What the Abandonment of Farm to Food Bank Programs Means for Communities
The loss of the Regional Farm to Food Bank program continues to impact food-insecure families, farmers, and whole communities, hitting rural areas especially hard.
Published on: October 15, 2025 | Source:Mexico’s Supreme Court Steps Forward but Falls Short
Click to expand Image Martha GarcĂa and a group of representatives from organizations of people with disabilities meet in a Mexico Supreme Court chamber with Justice Hugo Aguilar Ortiz and Justices Lenia Batres and YasmĂn Esquivel. 2025 Jenny Bautista/Human Rights Watch When Martha GarcĂa, a young disability activist and student at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, heard the Supreme Court planned to change...
Published on: October 15, 2025 | Source:ICE Fears Put Pregnant Immigrants and Their Babies at Risk
Fear of deportation is deterring people without permanent legal status from critical care. Doctors are worried for their health — and the health of their pregnancies.
Published on: October 15, 2025 | Source:Voting Rights on the Line in US Supreme Court Case
Click to expand Image (L-R) Kesha Moore and Anne Houghtaling call on the US Supreme Court to uphold a fair and representative congressional map in Louisiana v. Callais on March 24, 2025 in Washington, DC. 2025 Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Legal Defense Fund On October 15, the Supreme Court will rehearLouisiana v. Callais, which could determine whether Black voters have a meaningful chance at equal representation in...
Published on: October 15, 2025 | Source:First, They Came for DC
National Guard occupation of the nation’s capital is being used as a test case for authoritarianism. Local residents are mobilizing, but they need national support.
Published on: October 15, 2025 | Source:Three Emerging Strategies for Renewing Democracy
As democratic practices decay in the United States and elsewhere, the tendency is to defend existing institutions. But building new paths is just as important.
Published on: October 15, 2025 | Source:Iraq: New Personal Status Code Makes Women Second Class
Click to expand Image A woman holds a sign protesting women being deprived of their rights in marriage in Tahrir Square, Baghdad, Iraq, August 8, 2024. AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP via Getty Images (Beirut) –Iraq’s new Ja’afari Personal Status Code, passed by parliament on August 27, discriminates against women by favoring men in matters of marriage, divorce, inheritance, and children’s guardianship and care, Human Rights...
Published on: October 15, 2025 | Source:Morocco: Protests Met with Repression, Violence
Click to expand Image Security forces use water cannons to disperse youth protesters calling for healthcare and education reforms, in Salé, Morocco, October 1, 2025. 2025 Mosa'ab Elshamy/AP Photo (Beirut)–Moroccan authorities have cracked down on youth-led protests demanding sweeping reforms to public services, resulting in deaths and mass arrests, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should heed protesters’...
Published on: October 15, 2025 | Source:Brazil: Illegal Ranches Devastate Rainforest, Livelihoods
Play Video Read a text description of this video SOUNDBITESToto AraraEvery year, the invaders clear more land for cattle. Then they burn it.SOUNDBITESGivanildo dos Santos LimaToday, the biggest driver of deforestation in the Amazon region is cattle ranching.DATE/PLACEFebruary 2025Cachoeira Seca Indigenous Territory, BrazilPowdem AraraI don't know why the government doesn't remove the invaders from our land.Pyjaka...
Published on: October 15, 2025 | Source:Sri Lanka: Ruinous Tax Policies Stoke Inequality
Click to expand Image State teachers and school principals hold placards during a protest demanding relief from the upcoming budget, in front of the Ministry of Education in Colombo, Sri Lanka, February 14, 2025. 2025 CHAMILA KARUNARATHNE/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Sri Lanka’s tax policies played a driving role in the country’s devastating 2022 economic crisis and contribute to chronic underfunding of education and other...
Published on: October 15, 2025 | Source:UN Meeting Seeks to Embed Human Rights in New Economic Indicators
Click to expand Image The artwork "Non Violence" by artist Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd before the start of the United Nations Future Summit in New York, September 21, 2024. 2024 Michael Kappeler/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Photo A country’s gross domestic product (GDP), which measures total economic output, is central to how governments assess their economies. But this figure, when looked at in isolation, which is most often...
Published on: October 14, 2025 | Source:Reinvigorating the Nonprofit Sector: A Conversation with Vu Le
The nonprofit sector is in a rut and it needs to change. This includes replacing “best practices” with liberatory practices and centering equity in the work.
Published on: October 14, 2025 | Source:UN Rights Council Strengthens Crucial Protections
Click to expand Image Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 16, 2025. 2025 Lian Yi/Xinhua via Getty Images The latest session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, which concluded last week, offers a glimmer of hope in what are dark times for human rights around the world.Amidst talk of the erosion of international rule of law and decreasing government willingness to promote human rights abroad and...
Published on: October 14, 2025 | Source:Why Nonprofit Control of Information Technology Matters
Systematic nonprofit underinvestment in information technology allows vendors to exploit organizations. Nonprofits need to act together to own their own data and technology.
Published on: October 14, 2025 | Source:The Board Is Not the Boss—and More Thoughts on Its Role
For nonprofits to better achieve their missions, they need to rethink how they structure their boards. This includes ending the conflation of governance and fundraising roles.
Published on: October 14, 2025 | Source:Qatar: Baha’i Dignitary Acquitted
Click to expand Image Remy Rowhani Private. (Beirut) –Qatari authorities have acquitted and released Remy Rowhani, chair of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is in Qatar, after months ofarbitrary detention based solely on his religious identity, Human Rights Watch said today. Qatar should immediately enddiscrimination against Baha’is and provide effective remedy for those affected.Qatar’s court of appeal...
Published on: October 14, 2025 | Source:China: Nationwide Crackdown on Major Underground Church
Click to expand Image Jin Minri leads a class on the basics of Christian beliefs at the Zion Church in Beijing, China, August 4, 2018. 2018 Ng Han Guan/AP Photo (New York) – Chinese authorities on October 10-11, 2025, arrested nearly 30 pastors, preachers, and church members of the unofficial Zion Protestant Church in seven cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, and Zhejiang, Human Rights Watch said today. Among those...
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