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Private Equity and Wheelchair Services: How to Address a National Crisis
Wheelchair and durable medical equipment are a $60 billion industry and growing. But millions of wheelchair users are not getting the repair services they need.
Published on: May 19, 2025 | Source:
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Victims of Sri Lanka’s Civil War Seek Justice
Click to expand Image Sri Lankan Tamil civil war survivors perform rituals in memory of their deceased or missing relatives near Mullivaikkal, where civilians were trapped during the last months of the war, May 17, 2024. 2024 AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena Last weekend,Tamils in Sri Lanka gathered to commemorate those who died or went missing in the country’s civil war, which lasted from 1983 to 2009. As they have for...
Published on: May 19, 2025 | Source:Discriminatory Testing Blocks Migrant Children’s Right to Education in Russia
Click to expand Image A teacher introduces curricula and school rules to first graders at School No. 362 in St. Petersburg, Russia, September 1, 2023. 2023 CHINE NOUVELLE/SIPA/Shutterstock This week, Russia’s education and science supervision agency, Rosobrnadzor,reported that so far in 2025 only 335 children of migrants have been allowed to take the Russian language proficiency test, a new prerequisite for school...
Published on: May 19, 2025 | Source:Sudan’s war: Tragedy of the missing and forced disappearances
Adeela, one of our partners in Sudan, reflect on the devastating impact of the conflict, and the extraordinary efforts of Sudanese communities amid the crisis. The post Sudan’s war: Tragedy of the missing and forced disappearances appeared first on Peace Direct.
Published on: May 19, 2025 | Source:Afghan War Crimes Victims Still Awaiting Justice
Click to expand Image A British Army officer in Helmand province, Afghanistan, October 26, 2014. 2014 Press Association via AP images Family members of Afghans unlawfully killed by foreign military forces during the 20-year war in Afghanistan have been waiting a long time for justice. Last week revealed two quite different approaches by countries that should provide it.Australia, which has gone the furthest in...
Published on: May 19, 2025 | Source:UN General Assembly Should Act on North Korea
Click to expand Image A news broadcast at Seoul Railway Station shows a strategic cruise missile during a drill by the North Korean armed forces on the coast of the Yellow Sea in North Korea, February 28, 2025. 2025 Sipa via AP Images (New York) – TheUnited Nations General Assembly should establish a new body to examine the connections between theNorth Korean government’s repressive system and its military programs...
Published on: May 19, 2025 | Source:Japan: Press Cambodia’s Leader on Human Rights
Click to expand Image Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet meet at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on December 18, 2023. 2023 The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP (Tokyo) –Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba should publicly raise human rights issues whenCambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet visits Tokyo in late May 2025, Human Rights Watch said today. The Cambodian government has...
Published on: May 19, 2025 | Source:Chad: Opposition Leader Arrested
Click to expand Image Then-Prime Minister Succès Masra, leader of Chad’s main opposition party Les Transformateurs, casts his ballot in N'Djamena, Chad, May 6, 2024. 2024 Photo by JORIS BOLOMEY/AFP via Getty Images (New York) –Chadian authorities arrested Succès Masra, the former prime minister and leader of Chad’s main opposition party, at his residence in N’Djamena early on May 16, 2025, Human Rights Watch said...
Published on: May 17, 2025 | Source:Another Courageous Journalist Jailed in Azerbaijan
Click to expand Image Ulviyya Ali protests against a media bill alongside other journalists, in front of the Parliament building in Baku, Azerbaijan, December 28, 2021. The writing on her hand reads "a word is free." 2021 Ulviyya Ali “If you are reading this note it is because I have been unjustly jailed for my journalism work. Like my other journalist colleagues, I have committed no crime,”wrote Ulviyya Guliyeva...
Published on: May 17, 2025 | Source:Amid Disappearing Federal Funds, Could New York Be a Model for City-Level Health?
New York City has become an example of city-level health and climate programs. NPQ talks to mayors and advocates about how other cities are attempting to replicate New York City’s success worldwide.
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:Madeleine L’Engle’s Books Were Never Meant to Be “Safe”
The granddaughter of beloved writer Madeleine L’Engle, author of one of the most banned books of the last 60 years, advocates that books should build courage, not keep us “safe.”
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:The Human Cost of Cutting Medicaid
Activists are raising the alarm about potential Medicaid cuts outlined in the GOP tax bill. If enacted, it will cause millions to lose their healthcare.
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:Poland Ends ‘LGBT Free’ Zones
Click to expand Image Activists protesting in favor of equality and against “LGBT-free” zones resolutions in Warsaw, Poland, March 3, 2020. 2020 Attila Husejnow / SOPA Images/Sipa via AP Photo Municipal officials in the town of Łańcut, Poland, haveabolished the country’s last remaining “LGBT Ideology Free” zone, righting more than five years of political assault on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) people...
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:US: Florida Set to Trample Young People’s Rights
Click to expand Image 2023 Rebecca Hendin for Human Rights Watch (Miami) – A devastatingdecision from Florida’s Fifth District Court of Appeals would eliminate access to abortion care for young people unable to get written, notarized parental consent, Human Rights Watch and If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice said today. The May 14 opinion moves to strike down parts of Florida law that allow young people...
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:As Long as Social Media Is Around, Can We Really Break Free of Overconsumption?
Social media has heavily influenced our buying habits, causing sustainability has become more of a feel-good buzzword. However, there are ways that we can become more conscious of our overconsumption.
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:Sri Lanka’s Tamil Women Await Justice 16 Years Since War’s End
Click to expand Image Relatives of people who disappeared during or after the civil war protest in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, November 15, 2013. 2013 Doreen Fiedler/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Photo This Sunday, May 18, marks 16 years since the Sri Lankan government defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), ending an armed conflict that had raged for 26 years. But while the fighting has long been over, the battle for...
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:EU Needs Tougher Response to Attack on Turkish Opposition
Click to expand Image A demonstration against the arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu by members of the Turkish diaspora in the Place du Luxembourg, in front of the European Parliament on March 19, 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. 2025 Thierry Monasse/Getty Images (Brussels, May 16, 2025) - The jailing by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government of a key political opponent is a blatant repudiation of the rights to...
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:UN Security Council Should Renew South Sudan Arms Embargo
Click to expand Image Remnants of a burnt tukul (home) in Mathiang, South Sudan, following an attack with an incendiary weapon on March 16, 2025. Many tukuls and other civilian objects were burnt in the fires from incendiary weapons use. 2025 Private As hostilities escalate across South Sudan, the United Nations Security Council should renew its arms embargo on the country. The council should also act to prevent...
Published on: May 15, 2025 | Source:Flood Insurance Is Becoming Unaffordable—Can Community-Based Catastrophe Insurance Help?
When individual homes don’t have adequate insurance, entire communities suffer. Community-based insurance might help close the gap.
Published on: May 15, 2025 | Source:Proposed US Budget Bill Will Harm Right to Health
Click to expand Image Attendees pack the hearing room during a markup of US President Donald Trump's tax package in Washington, DC, on May 13, 2025. 2025 Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images Members of the US House of Representatives aremeeting this week to debate a legislative package that would, if enacted as written, have profound negative impacts on human rights in the United States.It should not become law....
Published on: May 15, 2025 | Source:Rising Food Prices Deepen Nigeria’s Poverty Crisis
Click to expand Image Vendors display tomatoes for sell at Mile 12 market in Lagos, Nigeria, July 7, 2021. 2021 Olukayode Jaiyeola/NurPhoto via AP Photo Several West African countries, including Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, and Gambia, proudly compete over who makes the best “jollof rice,” rice cooked in spicy tomato sauce. But in Nigeria, this cultural staple is becoming a luxury because of soaring inflation, while...
Published on: May 15, 2025 | Source:Syria: US Lifting Sanctions Will Bolster Rights, Recovery
Click to expand Image Syrians celebrate in Umayyad Square after U.S. President Donald Trump announced plans to ease sanctions on Syria in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, May 13, 2025. 2025 AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki (Washington, DC) – US President Donald Trump’s announcement that theUnited States will remove longstanding sanctions onSyria is a critical step toward improving Syrians’ access to fundamental economic rights and...
Published on: May 15, 2025 | Source:Arab and Muslim Advocates Fight Back Against Federal Repression
Arab and Muslim Americans are organizing to resist federal repression. At the same time, they are well aware that the scourge of Islamophobia is not new.
Published on: May 15, 2025 | Source:China/Tibet: Panchen Lama Forcibly Disappeared for 30 Years
Click to expand Image Exile Tibetan Buddhist nuns carry placards during a protest march demanding the release of their religious leader Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 11th Panchen Lama, who was put under house arrest by the Chinese authorities this day in 1995 in Tibet, in Dharmsala, India, Wednesday, May 17, 2017. 2017 AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia (New York) – China’s government should free the 11th Panchen Lama Gendun Choki...
Published on: May 15, 2025 | Source:Gaza: Latest Israeli Plan Inches Closer to Extermination
Click to expand Image Palestinians returning to Khan Younis after the withdrawal of Israeli forces, pull water containers to meet their vital needs under catastrophic conditions on May 6, 2024. 2024 Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images (Beirut)– TheIsraeli government’splan to demolish what remains of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure and concentrate the Palestinian population into a tiny area would amount to an...
Published on: May 15, 2025 | Source:The US Should Protect Exiled Cuban Dissidents
Click to expand Image Rapper Eliecer Marquez Duany, also known as "El Funky" listens to a congressional roundtable on human right abuses in Cuba, July 10, 2023, in Hialeah Gardens, Florida, US. 2023 Marta Lavandier/AP Photo Last week, a group of 14 exiled Cuban dissidents living in the United States senta letter to the US government and several members of Congress, urging officials to help them obtain legal status in...
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:Mali’s Junta Further Shutters Political Space
Click to expand Image People protesting the Malian military junta's decision to ban political parties at the Palais de la Culture in Bamako, Mali, May 3, 2025. 2025 Private This week, Mali’s National Transition Counciladopted a bill that effectively abolishes multiparty politics across the country. The new law officially bans opposition political meetings, speeches, and organizations. The action unfortunately came as...
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:Russian Court Convicts Rights Defender on Bogus Charges
Click to expand Image Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of Russia's leading independent election monitoring group Golos, in a courtroom prior to a hearing in Basmanny district court in Moscow, Russia, October 9, 2024. 2024 AP Photo A Moscow court on Wednesday sentenced prominent Russian rights defender and election monitor Grigory Melkonyants to five years in prison on charges of involvement with a foreign “undesirable...
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:UN Security Council Should Commit to People with Disabilities
Click to expand Image A doctor adjusts the cover on the amputated leg of a 5-year-old Palestinian girl at the Artificial Limbs and Polio Center in GazaCity, February 26, 2025. 2025 Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo As the United Nations Security Council prepares for Protection of Civilians Week 2025 on May 19-23, when many stakeholders gather to advance ways to protect civilians in armed conflict, UN member states should...
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:Australia: Display Human Rights Leadership in Asia, Beyond
Click to expand Image Australia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong (L) with Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese after he won the general election in Sydney, May 3, 2025. 2025 Saeed Khan/AFP via Getty Images (Sydney) –Australia’s recently re-elected Labor government should use its second term as an opportunity to amplify human rights in its foreign policy, Human Rights Watch said today in aletter to Foreign Minister...
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:Advocates Mobilize to Stave Off Cuts to Federal Student Loan Programs
A federal budget bill threatens to reduce higher education loan forgiveness that benefits nonprofit workers and other borrowers. Advocates are mobilizing in response.
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:How to Reduce Economic Inequality by Expanding Employee Ownership
The workplace is a leading site of inequality, but if workers owned businesses, that could change. How can advocates seize the opportunity to grow worker ownership?
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:As Neoliberalism Crashes, What Comes Next?
Neoliberalism, a leading cause of inequality for decades, is dying. What comes next is unclear. For economic justice advocates, building a positive path forward is essential.
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:Egypt: Apparent Extrajudicial Killings
Click to expand Image Marsa Matruh, Egpyt, January 10, 2020. 2020 Alexander Farnsworth/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Photo (Beirut) – Egyptian Ministry of Interior officers on April 10, 2025, apparently killed two men in northwestEgypt hours after their arrest, which would amount to extrajudicial executions, Human Rights Watch said today.The ministry claimed that the two men, Youssef El-Sarhani and Faraj Al-Fazary, were...
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:Saudi Arabia: Migrant Workers Electrocuted, Decapitated, and Falling to Death at Workplaces
Click to expand Image Migrant workers at a construction site near Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, March 2, 2024. 2024 Jaap Arriens/Sipa via AP Photo Scores of migrant workers in Saudi Arabia have died in gruesome yet avoidable workplace-related accidents, including falling from buildings, electrocution, and even decapitation.Many migrant deaths in Saudi Arabia are erroneously classified as “natural” and are neither investigated...
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source: