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“How Do We Break Out of Pity?”: Reframing Children as Philanthropic Citizens
Philanthropy education must shift from pity to solidarity, empowering children as active participants in their communities. Programs like The Giving Square foster empathy, agency, and real-world problem-solving in young people.
Published on: April 08, 2025 | Source:
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Why Are We Ignoring One-Sixth of the Nonprofit Workforce?
Volunteerism is in trouble. It’s time for a new paradigm for how we understand volunteerism as crucial to the nonprofit workforce—and for democracy.
Published on: April 08, 2025 | Source:Syria: Landmines, Explosive Remnants Harming Civilians
Click to expand Image Nidal Ahmad stands near his olive farm in Aleppo, Syria on March 4, 2025. Its location near a former Syrian Army military camp has prevented him from harvesting crops for years. Last December, Nidal returned to check on his land and lost his foot in a landmine explosion. 2025 Hibatullah Barakat, Middle East Images via AFP via Getty Images Over 600 people, including children, have been killed or...
Published on: April 08, 2025 | Source:‘Disappeared’ Burkina Faso Journalists Feared Unlawfully Conscripted
Click to expand Image Guezouma Sanogo (L) and Boukari Ouoba. Private Avideo circulated on social media on April 2, 2025, showing three outspoken journalists from Burkina Faso in military uniforms. Guezouma Sanogo, Boukari Ouoba, and Luc Pagbelguem had been forciblydisappeared for 10 days and their reappearance raised concerns that the country’s military junta had unlawfully conscripted them.Human Rights Watch was...
Published on: April 07, 2025 | Source:Mozambique’s Parliament Approves Inclusive Dialogue Law
Click to expand Image New members of the Mozambique parliament are sworn in at the National Assembly in Maputo, January 13, 2025. 2025 Alfredo Zuniga/AFP via Getty Images Last week, Mozambique’s parliament unanimously passed into law the Political Commitment for an Inclusive Dialogue (Compromisso Político para o Diálogo Nacional Inclusivo), which aims to create platforms to discuss constitutional and political reforms...
Published on: April 07, 2025 | Source:Human Rights Watch Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Belarus
SummaryHuman Rights Watch (HRW) submits the following with respect to Belarus’s implementation of recommendations received during its 2020 Universal Periodic Review (UPR). This submission is neither a complete review of implementation of all recommendations, nor a comprehensive review of Belarus’s respect, protection and fulfillment of human rights in the domestic sphere.Since Belarus’s last UPR cycle in November 2020,...
Published on: April 07, 2025 | Source:China: Free Imprisoned Taiwan Publisher
Click to expand Image Taiwan publisher Fu Cha. Private (Taipei) – TheChinese authorities should urgently quash the conviction and free theTaiwan publisher Li Yanhe (李延賀), known by his pen name Fu Cha (富察), Human Rights Watch said today. Fu Cha, who has been detained in China since 2023, was secretly sentenced in February 2025 to three years in prison on charges of “inciting secession.” The government has provided...
Published on: April 07, 2025 | Source:How Nonprofits Can Create Ethical AI Policies
Fast Forward is helping nonprofits develop AI policies.
Published on: April 07, 2025 | Source:Sustainable Futures of Contraception and the Role of Men
For decades, the burden of birth control has largely fallen on women. But emerging technologies suggest a future where men, too, could take contraceptives. Could this shift lead to sustainable contraceptives?
Published on: April 07, 2025 | Source:Romania: Dangerous Rollback of Reproductive Rights
Click to expand Image A woman holds a banner that reads "Abortion is an essential public health service" at a rally on International Women's Day, in Bucharest, Romania, March 8, 2023. 2023 AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru The sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls, including the right to abortion and family planning methods, have been significantly eroded in Romania.Romanian authorities are not only...
Published on: April 07, 2025 | Source:Saudi Arabia: Dozens Freed But Arrests Continue
Click to expand Image Mohammed al-Qahtani (R), Muhammad al-Ghamdi (C-R), Asaad al-Ghamdi (C-L), and Salma al-Shehab. Private (Beirut)– Saudi authorities have released dozens of people serving long prison terms for peacefully exercising their rights yet continue to imprison and arbitrarily detain many more, Human Rights Watch said today.Between December 2024 and February 2025, Saudi authorities released at least 44...
Published on: April 07, 2025 | Source:US Health Funding Freeze Harms Low-Income Households
Click to expand Image Protestors gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court as oral arguments are delivered in the case of Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic in Washington D.C., April 2, 2025. 2025 Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images On Tuesday, the Trump administration froze federal funding for several organizations across the United States that provide lifesaving cervical cancer screenings, contraception, family...
Published on: April 05, 2025 | Source:The Lonely Death of a Rwandan General
Click to expand Image Brigadier General Frank Rusagara arrives at the court to appeal their 2016 conviction on charges including tarnishing the government’s image and inciting insurrection, in Kigali, Rwanda, on December 27, 2019. 2019 Clement Uwiringiyimana/Reuters Retired Brig. Gen. Frank Rusagara died last week inRwanda. He had spent11 years behind bars, without being allowed to speak to his wife, who died in the...
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:EU Should Defend the ICC
Click to expand Image International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, April 30, 2024. 2024 Peter Dejong/AP Photo Update: The list of signatories, updated on Thursday, April 10, now includes 69 organizations.(Brussels) – The European Union should defend the International Criminal Court (ICC) amid serious attacks on its mandate and mission, 58 nongovernmental groups said today. These attacks could undermine...
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:Higher Education Unions Mobilize to “Kill the Cuts”
This spring looks to be a season of high mobilization by labor unions and civil society. For higher education unions alone, two rounds of demonstrations are slated for April.
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:Niger Junta’s Release of Detainees Falls Short
Click to expand Image Former Niger President Mohamed Bazoum at the Elysee Palace in Paris, February 16, 2023. 2023 Michel Euler/AP Photo This week, Niger’s military junta released about 50 people from prison, including several former government officials, military officers, and a journalist who had been arrested following the July 2023 coup. Several others still languish behind bars on politically motivated charges,...
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:How the UN Sustainable Development Goals Can Advance Racial Equity
What do the United Nations’ sustainable development goals have to do with advancing equity goals? More than you might think. Here are some stories from the field.
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:How Our Public Pension Dollars Can Advance Climate Justice
Public pension funds have more than $6 trillion in assets, over $500 billion in California alone. These dollars can be mobilized to support climate justice—if they are so used.
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:South Korea Court Removes President Yoon from Office
Click to expand Image People celebrate after the Constitutional Court's ruling to remove President Yoon from office, near Anguk Station, Seoul, South Korea, on April 4, 2025. 2025 Rainbow Action Korea (New York) – The Constitutional Court of Korea ruled on April 4, 2025, to uphold the impeachment of South Korea’s president, Yoon Suk-yeol, and remove him from office for imposing martial law on December 3, 2024.Yoon and...
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:German Proposal to Strip Citizenship Endangers Human Rights
Click to expand Image A citizen shows their German and Azerbaijani passports in support of legal recognition for dual citizenship, Berlin, Germany, June 27, 2024. 2024 Jens Kalaene/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Photo A leaked paper reveals that Germany’s conservative political parties, the Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU), want to add a clause to Germany’s Nationality Law to allow the country...
Published on: April 03, 2025 | Source:Iran: UN Expands Investigations into Rights Violations
Click to expand Image Overview during the 55th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, February 26, 2024. 2024 Janine Schmitz/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images (Geneva) – The United Nations Human Rights Council’s adoption of a resolution to continuethe Fact-Finding Mission on Iran and significantly broaden the scope of its investigations is a crucial step for tackling the deepening crisis of impunity in Iran,...
Published on: April 03, 2025 | Source:What’s at Stake with Threatened Federal Cuts to CDFIs?
A Trump administration executive order threatens community development financial institution funding.
Published on: April 03, 2025 | Source:Kemba Smith Pradia Remains Committed to Criminal Justice Reform
The Trump administration presents hurdles for those working on criminal justice reform, but advocates, particularly those who have been directly impacted by the criminal justice system, are committed to pushing for change.
Published on: April 03, 2025 | Source:The Legal Landscape of DEI: A Conversation with Jill Habig
How should nonprofits navigate the new DEI landscape?
Published on: April 03, 2025 | Source:States Take Steps Toward Reforming Economic Approaches with Rights
Click to expand Image The United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, June 13, 2022. 2022 Valentin Flauraud/Keystone via AP Photo On April 3, theUnited Nations Human Rights Council adopted by consensus a resolution about “the realization in all countries of economic, social and cultural rights”. This year’s text focuses on the importance of development financing in fulfilling these rights.The...
Published on: April 03, 2025 | Source:UN: Treaty on Older People’s Rights Moves Ahead
Click to expand Image The United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, June 13, 2022. 2022 Valentin Flauraud/Keystone via AP Photo (Geneva, April 3, 2025) – TheUnited Nations Human Rights Council on April 3, 2025, began an intergovernmental process to draft an international human rights treaty on older people, Human Rights Watch said today. The consensus resolution is an important victory for human...
Published on: April 03, 2025 | Source:US: End Campaign of Draconian Campus Arrests
Click to expand Image Pro-Palestinian student protesters at a demonstration at Columbia University on the third day of "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" in New York, US, April 19, 2024. 2024 Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images (Washington, DC) – The US government should end its sweeping effort to arbitrarily arrest and deport international students and scholars in retaliation for their political viewpoints and activism...
Published on: April 03, 2025 | Source:Argentina: Abusive Response to Protest
A riot police officer shoots a tear gas canister at protesters during a demonstration of pensioners calling for improvements to their pensions and access to free medicines, among other demands, in Buenos Aires on March 12, 2025. LUIS ROBAYO/AFP via Getty Images (Washington, DC) –Argentine authorities should investigate security forces’ use of force to confront a protest led by pensioners and review an “anti-protest”...
Published on: April 03, 2025 | Source:Burkina Faso’s Relentless Crackdown on Dissent, Media
Click to expand Image A screenshot of the list of individuals “actively wanted for criminal association in relation to a terrorist enterprise” published by Burkinabe security minister on April, 1, 2025. The list includes prominent critics of the junta, April 1, 2025. 2025 MATDS Burkina Faso/Facebook “I rose through the ranks!” joked Maixent Somé, an exiled Burkinabè activist and critic of the country's military junta...
Published on: April 02, 2025 | Source:How TIFs Impact Racial and Economic Justice at the Local Level
Tax increment financing is one of the most common economic development local financing tools around. Unfortunately, its economic and racial justice impacts are highly negative. This must change.
Published on: April 02, 2025 | Source:How to Hold Dollar Store Chains Accountable and Protect Communities
The US South is home to many stores in the nation’s growing dollar store retail networks. Achieving economic justice for these workers is a vital movement task.
Published on: April 02, 2025 | Source:New Risks from Latest Scheme under Italy-Albania Immigration Deal
Click to expand Image A member of the Italian Army stands in front of an immigration detention camp built by Italy in Gjader, Albania, October 11, 2024. 2024 Florion Goga/Reuters After building immigration facilities in Albania that now stand empty, the Italian government has decided to turn one of them into an offshore detention center. But this will only replicate the problems already seen in detention centers...
Published on: April 02, 2025 | Source:Hungary: Arrest, Don’t Welcome ICC Fugitive Netanyahu
Click to expand Image Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, left, is welcomed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, July 19, 2018. 2018 Debbie Hill/AP Photo (Washington, DC) –Hungaryshould deny entry to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or arrest him if he enters the country, Human Rights Watch said today. Netanyahu’s office announcedthat he is planning to travel toHungaryon April 2,...
Published on: April 01, 2025 | Source:Japan Makes High School Education Free – Again
Click to expand Image A Tokyo public high school corridor. 2023 Bede Sheppard / Human Rights Watch Japan’s parliament, the Diet,voted this week to make public high school free for all children. Tuition fees had been abolished in 2010, but then reinstated in 2013.The new measure, approved in the budget, will expand equal opportunity in education, and should increase education access and certainty for children of...
Published on: April 01, 2025 | Source:On the Frontlines: Lessons from New York’s Immigrant Defense Project
As nonprofits, mutual aid groups, and activist movements across the country mobilize to protect migrants and immigrants, the Immigrant Defense Project shares lessons and strategies.
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