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What can the people-powered protests movements of Pithampur, India, and North Carolinaโs Warren County teach us?
Published on: July 25, 2025 | Source:
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New Report Looks at Lessons Learned from Bail Out Campaign
Women make up the fastest-growing incarcerated population in the country. A new report looks at the lessons learned from efforts to bail out incarcerated Black women in California.
Published on: July 25, 2025 | Source:Sahel Region: African Union Appoints Special Envoy
Click to expand Image Burundi's president รvariste Ndayishimiye at the European Union-Africa Union Summit in Brussels, Belgium, on Feb. 17, 2022. 2022 Valeria Mongelli/Bloomberg via Getty Images (Nairobi) โ The African Unionโs (AU) appointment of Burundiโs president as its special envoy for the Sahel region strengthens the AUโs capacity to address the most pressing human rights challenges facing Mali, Burkina Faso and...
Published on: July 25, 2025 | Source:World Court Rules Tackling Climate Crisis is an International Legal Obligation
Click to expand Image Ralph Regenvanu, Vanuatu's minister for climate change, speaks surrounded by demonstrators at the International Court of Justice ahead of an advisory opinion on what legal obligations nations have to address climate change in The Hague, Netherlands, July 23, 2025. 2025 Peter Dejong/AP Photo The International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued a unanimous opinion on July 23, 2025, that climate change...
Published on: July 24, 2025 | Source:Russia Clamps Down on Online Searches
Click to expand Image Police detain an activist in front of the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, in Moscow, Russia, July 22, 2025, before lawmakers approved a bill that punishes online searches for information that is deemed "extremist." 2025 AP Photo This week, Russiaโs State Duma, the lower chamber of parliament,adopted a draft law that imposes fines on ordinary citizens for โintentionallyโ...
Published on: July 24, 2025 | Source:Central African Republic: ICC Convicts Two Anti-Balaka Leaders
Click to expand Image Alfred Yรฉkatom, left, and Patrice-Edouard Ngaรฏssona, right, taken on Nov. 23, 2018 and Jan. 25, 2019 respectively when they appeared before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands. Piroschka van de Wouw/ Koen Van Well/AP Photo (Geneva) โ The International Criminal Court (ICC) conviction of two anti-balaka militia leaders for serious crimes in theCentral African Republic...
Published on: July 24, 2025 | Source:Ukraine โSuspendsโ Vital Mine Ban Treaty
Click to expand Image A humanitarian deminer at work in Mykolaiv region, Ukraine, April 16, 2025. 2025 Yuliia Ovsiannikova/Ukrinform via AP Photo On July 18, Ukraine formally informed the United Nations that it has suspended its operation of the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, the landmark international treaty prohibiting antipersonnel landmines. The action puts civilians at risk, undermines fundamental humanitarian and legal...
Published on: July 24, 2025 | Source:We Stood Up to Demand Fair Pay
At a nonprofit workplace, a union contract offers workers valuable protections. But those provisions only become meaningful when workers stand up to enforce them.
Published on: July 24, 2025 | Source:What Does Solidarity Require? A More Expansive โWeโ
The Declaration of Independence says: โWe hold these truths to be self-evident.โ But who is that โweโ? That has always been contestedโas it is today.
Published on: July 24, 2025 | Source:โWeโre Not Meant to Do Life Aloneโ: The Invisible Network of Nonprofits
Beneath the familiar chaos of daily life there is a quiet, constant interaction with a web of nonprofits. From healthcare and education to emotional support and hurricane recovery, one womanโs story reveals how deeply interwoven nonprofits are in the fabric of our communities.
Published on: July 24, 2025 | Source:Ukraine: New Law Undercuts Independence of Anti-Corruption Bodies
Click to expand Image Ukrainians protest near the presidential office in the capital Kyiv against a newly passed law that curbs the independence of anti- corruption institutions, the first protest of its kind since Russiaโs full scale invasion of Ukraine, July 22, 2025. 2025 Stanislav Kozliuk/Reuters (Kyiv) - A new law adopted by Ukraineโs parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, on July 22, 2025, effectively strips Ukraineโs...
Published on: July 24, 2025 | Source:Anti-Corruption Activist Under Pressure in Ukraine
Click to expand Image Vitaliy Shabunin during a hearing in his case at the Pecherskyi District Court in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 15, 2025. 2025 Oleksandr Sinitsa/UNIAN On July 11, Ukraineโs State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) conducted searchestargeting Vitaliy Shabunin, a prominent anti-corruption activist who has played a key role in exposing allegations of government corruption. Shabunin recently criticized the...
Published on: July 24, 2025 | Source:Brazil: Lula Should Veto Environmental Protection Rollback
Deforested area within the Governador Indigenous Land, in the state of Maranhรฃo, in November 2017. Non-Indigenous people removed the most valuable timber and then burned the area for cultivation. Photo by Cรฉsar Muรฑoz Acebes. (Sรฃo Paulo) - Brazilโs President Luiz Inรกcio Lula da Silva should veto a bill that dismantles environmental licensing and poses serious threats to environment-related human rights across the...
Published on: July 24, 2025 | Source:India: Hundreds of Muslims Unlawfully Expelled to Bangladesh
Click to expand Image Police officers detain alleged undocumented Bangladeshi nationals after they were arrested during raids in Ahmedabad, India, April 26, 2025. 2025 Amit Dave/Reuters Indian authorities have expelled hundreds of ethnic Bengali Muslims toBangladesh in recent weeks without due process, claiming they are illegal immigrants.The authoritiesโ claims that they are managing irregular immigration are...
Published on: July 24, 2025 | Source:What Nonprofits Need to Know About Birthright Citizenshipโs Legal Limbo
How nonprofits can prepare as a controversial executive order seeks to challenge birthright citizenship.
Published on: July 23, 2025 | Source:Can a New Labor Institute Advance Black Workersโ Rights in the South?
Jobs with Justice and Clark Atlanta University, a historically Black college, together create a new institute focused on developing Black labor leaders.
Published on: July 23, 2025 | Source:Restoring Our Capacities: How an Asset Lens Can Serve Movements Today
To build the movements that our nation and world need today, an asset lens can help us to see community capacitiesโand more effectively connect people with each other.
Published on: July 23, 2025 | Source:Yemen: Houthis' Attacks on Cargo Ships Apparent War Crimes
Click to expand Image The Eternity C sinks after it was struck by a Houthi missile on July 8, 2025, on the Red Sea. 2025 Houthi Media Center/Getty Images (Beirut) โ The Houthi armed group inYemen attacked two commercial cargo vessels in the Red Sea between July 6 and 9, 2025, violations of the laws of war amounting to war crimes, Human Rights Watch said today. The Houthis sunk both ships, killing and injuring several...
Published on: July 23, 2025 | Source:Niger: Two Years On, Ex-President Still Arbitrarily Detained
Click to expand Image Former Niger President Mohamed Bazoum at the Elysee Palace in Paris, February 16, 2023. 2023 Michel Euler/AP Photo (Nairobi) โ Authorities in Niger should immediately release former President Mohamed Bazoum, who remains arbitrarily detained two years after he was ousted in a military coup, Human Rights Watch said today.On July 26, 2023, Nigerien army officers of the self-proclaimed National...
Published on: July 23, 2025 | Source:Desperate Pleas from Starving Palestinians Shouldnโt Be Ignored
Click to expand Image A woman consoles her 6-year-old daughter, who is malnourished, at a shelter in central Gaza City, on May 11, 2025. 2025 Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via AP Photo Last summer, my son, then two months old, got sick while visiting family in California. Before our eyes, he rapidly lost weight, falling below his birth weight, until his body went into shock. Doctors later told us he almost died.I will never...
Published on: July 23, 2025 | Source:Clawback of $1.1B for PBS and NPR Puts Rural Stations at Riskโand Threatens a Vital Source of Journalism
Two media scholars break down the impact of budget cuts to public media.
Published on: July 22, 2025 | Source:UN: End Impunity for Israeli Crimes Against Palestinians
Click to expand Image A boy stands amid the ruins of a collapsed building following Israeli bombardment in the Bureij camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip, May 23, 2025. 2025 Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images (New York) โUnited Nations member countries should use the ministerial-level conference on Palestine on July 28-29, 2025, topublicly commit to concrete actions aimed at ending decades of impunity...
Published on: July 22, 2025 | Source:How to Convert a Business to Worker Co-op Ownership: A 10-Step Process
How can workers become owners of the business where they work? John Abrams, who founded a company that later became a worker co-op, lays out key steps.
Published on: July 22, 2025 | Source:Leadership and Worker Ownership: A Conversation with John Abrams
Employee ownership of businesses has the potential to be a tool of social transformation. Getting there, however, requires building the muscle of democratic leadership.
Published on: July 22, 2025 | Source:Syria: Abuses, Humanitarian Emergency Amid Sweida Clashes
Click to expand Image Syrian government security forces stand atop an earth barrier that they created as a buffer during their deployment in Busra al-Harir in Syriaโs southern Daraa province on July 21, 2025. 2025 Omar Haj Kadour / AFP (Beirut) โ Nine days of armed clashes and serious abuses in Syriaโs southern Sweida governorate have triggered a dire humanitarian crisis, Human Rights Watch said today. The fighting...
Published on: July 22, 2025 | Source:Kazakhstan: Journalists Denied Accreditation
Click to expand Image Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry building in Astana, April 21, 2017. 2017 ะะพะปะฐั ะจะฐะนั ะธะฝะพะฒ/Sputnik via AP Photo (Berlin, July 22, 2025) โ The decision byKazakhstanโs Foreign Affairs Ministry to withhold accreditation from 16 journalists for the Kazakh service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is a blatant attack on independent media, Human Rights Watch said today. The decision undermines press...
Published on: July 22, 2025 | Source:Mali: Army, Wagner Group Disappear, Execute Fulani Civilians
Click to expand Image Russian fighters from the Wagner Group in northern Mali in an undated photo posted by the French military in 2022. 2022 French Army via AP Photo Maliโs armed forces and the allied Russia-backed Wagner Group have committed dozens of summary executions and enforced disappearances of ethnic Fulani men since January 2025.The Malian soldiers and Wagner Group fighters accuse the Fulani community of...
Published on: July 22, 2025 | Source:They Say Climate Tech Will Save Us, but Who Will Save Us from Climate Tech?
As climate tech, including AI, races ahead, are these solutions helping or hastening the climate crisis?
Published on: July 21, 2025 | Source:The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Whatโs Next for AmeriCorps?
When it comes to the state of AmeriCorps, lawsuits and advocacy have made a difference. But the federal service program remains at risk of termination.
Published on: July 21, 2025 | Source:Jordan: Petraโs Bedul Bedouin Community Displaced
Click to expand Image Bedul women making bread in one of the caves in Stooh al-Nabi Harun Mountain, Jordan. 2025 Private (Beirut) โ TheJordanian government is forcibly evicting the Bedul, a group of Bedouins fromPetra, in clear violation of their economic, social, and cultural rights, including their right to housing, Human Rights Watch said today. Jordanian authorities should immediately reverse measures that have...
Published on: July 21, 2025 | Source:US: Immigrants Abused in Florida Detention Sites
Click to expand Image 2025 John Holmes for Human Rights Watch Detainees in Florida immigration detention centers are being subjected to inhuman conditions, including denial of medical care, overcrowding, and degrading treatment. At least two recent deaths may have been linked to medical neglect.These are not isolated incidents, but rather the result of a fundamentally broken detention system that is rife with serious...
Published on: July 21, 2025 | Source:Angola: Police Use Excessive Force Against Peaceful Protesters
Click to expand Image Angola's Rapid Intervention Force during a protest against the rise in fuel prices and transport costs in Luanda, July 12, 2025. 2025 Julio Pacheco Ntela/AFP via Getty Images (Johannesburg) โ Angolan police used excessive force and carried out arbitrary arrests while dispersing peaceful protesters in Luanda, the capital, on July 12, 2025, Human Rights Watch said today.Police unnecessarily fired...
Published on: July 18, 2025 | Source:What Does Gaza Solidarity Protest Look Like on Campuses Today?
In 2024, campus protests in solidarity with the people of Gaza were visible across the mediaโthis year, less so. But while tactics have shifted, the movement continues.
Published on: July 17, 2025 | Source:A Disappointing Ruling in Italy with a Silver Lining
Click to expand Image The SOS MEDITERRANEE crew performs a rescue in the central Mediterranean, March 9, 2025. 2025 SOS MEDITERRANEE/ by Stefano Belacchi The Italian Constitutional Courtโs recent ruling upholding a law that imposes sanctions on sea rescue groups casts a dark shadow over sea rescue, but that cloud has a silver lining: the court essentially said that the imperative to save lives justifies rescue ships...
Published on: July 17, 2025 | Source:Greece's Asylum Suspension Denies Rights, Puts Lives at Risk
Click to expand Image A Portuguese vessel in a Frontex operation in Lesbos, Greece, 2016. 2016 Frontex Greece hassuspended the ability for people coming by boat via North Africa to seek asylum โviolating their rights, potentially putting their lives at risk and flouting its obligations under EU law.The measure approved by Parliament on July 11 for a period of three months, blocks people coming by boat via North Africa...
Published on: July 16, 2025 | Source: