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#Peace & Community #European #Middle East #Asia #UN #North America #Oceanian #AfricanLeading at the End: Supporting Your Team in an Organizational Wind Down
Good organizational endings are desirable and possible. Here are some suggestions that can help your organization to design an honorable sunset.
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:
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In This Time of Crisis, Social Justice Philanthropy Must Change Its Tune
Philanthropy is famously risk-averse. But in times of crisis like today, philanthropic leaders interested in social justice must pursue their missions very differently.
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:Tunisia: Arbitrary Detention Crushes Dissent
Click to expand Image Protest of the National Salvation Front opposition coalition in downtown Tunis, Tunisia, on March 5, 2023, against the arrest of several public figures, including its leaders. 2023 Sipa via AP Images The Tunisian government has turned arbitrary detention into a cornerstone of its repressive policy, aimed at depriving people of their civil and political rights.Following President Kais Saiedโs...
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:Kyrgyzstan: Rights Defender Detained
Click to expand Image Rita Karasartova. Private (Bishkek, April 16, 2025) โ Kyrgyz authorities on April 14, 2025, detained a human rights defender, claiming she has ties to a criminal case, Human Rights Watch said today. The activist, Rita Karasartova, was detained for 48 hours in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, with a hearing about extending her detention set for April 16.Karasartova posted on her personal...
Published on: April 16, 2025 | Source:Tanzanian Opposition Leaderโs Arrest Spells Trouble for Elections
Click to expand Image Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu of the Chadema party faces a magistrate's court after his arrest in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, April 10, 2025. 2025 Emmanuel Herman/Reuters Last week, the authorities in Tanzania arrested opposition presidential candidate Tundu Lissu on fabricatedcharges, then used his partyโs calls for electoral reform to disqualify it from participating in upcoming...
Published on: April 15, 2025 | Source:Taxation, Black Americans, and the Environment: What Altadena Teaches Us
The devastating effects of the Los Angeles wildfires on Black families in Altadena, CA, illustrate how environmental risks act as an indirect tax on Black Americans.
Published on: April 15, 2025 | Source:Putting an End to Quiet Violence: What Tax Justice Looks Like
The US tax system has long harmed Black people. While the time for reform may not seem auspicious, organizing now could pay big dividends when the time is right.
Published on: April 15, 2025 | Source:Taxes, Race, and Justice: Confronting โQuiet Violenceโ Against Black Americans
While the nationโs tax system may seem to be race-neutral, this is not actually the case. Black Americans disproportionately experience the economic violence of an unequal tax system. This must change.
Published on: April 15, 2025 | Source:Overcoming Fear and Seeking Solidarity: How We Must Defend Our Communities
In social change work, we donโt always get to choose our battles. When my nonprofit recently faced the opportunity to fight back, it was important to overcome our fears and defend the community we serve.
Published on: April 15, 2025 | Source:2 years of war in Sudan
More than 100 people have been killed in Sudan this weekend as the country marks two years since a deadly escalation of war. Local peacebuilders are continuing to call for urgent humanitarian support, the protection of civilians and an immediate end to the violence. The post 2 years of war in Sudan appeared first on Peace Direct.
Published on: April 15, 2025 | Source:German Coalitionโs Troubling Plans on Social Security
Click to expand Image People choose groceries at a food bank in Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, July 21, 2022. 2022 Bernd Weiรbrod/AP Photo The April 9 coalitionagreement between Germanyโs Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union and Social Democratic Party is unfortunately a return to a harsh social security system packaged as โreformโ and โsimplification.โ Rather than addressing the growing number of...
Published on: April 15, 2025 | Source:The EU Should Press Bhutan to Free Political Prisoners
Click to expand Image Top row: Lok Bahadur Ghaley; Rinzin Wangdi; Chandra Raj Rai; Kumar Gautam. Bottom row: San Man Gurung; Birkha Bdr Chhetri; Omnath Adhikari; Chaturman Tamang. Private (Brussels) โ TheEuropean Union should pressBhutanese authorities to release dozens of political prisoners held for decades in dire conditions, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today. An EU human rights dialogue with...
Published on: April 15, 2025 | Source:Plastics Reform, Regulation Urged by Los Angeles Reproductive Justice Group
Click to expand Image The Inglewood Oil Field in Los Angeles, California, March 9, 2020. 2020 Lionel Hahn/Abaca/Sipa USA via AP Photo The California state government in the United States should better regulate plastics, says the south Los Angeles-based reproductive justice organizationBlack Women for Wellness. The organization, which interviewed local community members for itsnew report on plastics, calls on...
Published on: April 14, 2025 | Source:Lebanon: Journalists, Activist Summoned for Investigations
Click to expand Image Beirut Lebanon, November 16, 2015. 2015 Bilal Hussein/AP Photo (Beirut) โLebanese journalists, media organizations, and civil society groups are facing the repeated use of criminal defamation charges and other vague legal provisions in response to their work alleging corruption and financial mismanagement in the country, Human Rights Watch said today. On April 10, Lebanonโs public prosecution...
Published on: April 14, 2025 | Source:Supreme Court Considers Whether States May Prevent People Covered by Medicaid from Choosing Planned Parenthood as Their Healthcare Provider
A Supreme Court case weighs whether patients on Medicaid can choose Planned Parenthood as their healthcare provider.
Published on: April 14, 2025 | Source:How the Trump Administration Is Undermining Civil Rights Lawโand How Nonprofits Can Fight Back
As civil rights protections are increasingly undermined, nonprofits are confronting a difficult question: How do they remain faithful to their missions when the legal system designed to protect their work is being turned against them?
Published on: April 14, 2025 | Source:Facing Our Dobbs Moment for Disability Rights
The Dobbs decisionโs impact extends far beyond reproductive rights. In particular, the rights of people with disabilities are also affected. Here is how to fight back.
Published on: April 14, 2025 | Source:UN Landmines Resolution Highlights Human Rights Impact
Click to expand Image Delegates sit at the opening of the 41th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 24, 2019. 2019 Magali Girardin/Keystone via AP (Geneva, April 14, 2025)โ The United Nations Human Rights Councilโs first resolution on landmines strongly endorses the long-standing international treaty prohibiting antipersonnel mines at a...
Published on: April 14, 2025 | Source:EU Border Agency: Use Aerial Surveillance to Save Lives at Sea
Click to expand Image Mรฉdรฉcins Sans Frontiรจres rescue crew help a man on board following a rescue in the central Mediterranean Sea, September 20, 2024. 2024 Mohamad Cheblak/MSF (Brussels, April 14, 2025) โ Frontex, theEuropean Unionโs Border and Coast Guard agency, should ensure that its aerial surveillance capacity is used to save lives at sea, Human Rights Watch said today. The organization met with Frontex...
Published on: April 14, 2025 | Source:EU-PA Dialogue Should Focus on Palestiniansโ Rights
Click to expand Image European Union's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas (L) and Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa at a press conference following their meeting in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, March 24, 2025. 2025 Nasser Nasser/AP Photo (Brussels, April 14, 2025) โ European Union High Representative Kaja Kallas and EU foreign ministers should focus on the protection of Palestiniansโ rights during the...
Published on: April 14, 2025 | Source:Sudan: After 2 Years of War, Global Action Needed
Click to expand Image A view of the damage surrounding Al-Shaab Teaching Hospital following intense clashes between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces in Khartoum, Sudan, on March 29, 2025. 2025 Mohammed Nzar Awad/Anadolu via Getty Images (Nairobi) โ Leaders gathering in London on April 15, 2025, should urgently work to protect civilians and guarantee safe, unfettered aid provision as the conflict inSudan...
Published on: April 14, 2025 | Source:China: Police Arrest Tibetans for Internet, Phone Use
Click to expand Image A Tibetan Buddhist monk and a woman share a mobile phone outside the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, on June 1, 2021. 2021 Kevin Frayer/Getty Images (New York) โChinaโs government has arrested dozens of people in Tibetan areas since 2021 for politically motived phone and internet-related offenses, Human Rights Watch said today. Tibetan journalists in exile report that...
Published on: April 13, 2025 | Source:Mozambique: No Arrests in Post-Election Political Killings
Click to expand Image Mozambique police officers look on as protesters gather in Maputo while Daniel Chapo is sworn in as Mozambiqueโs president on January 15, 2025. 2025 AMILTON NEVES/AFP via Getty Images (Johannesburg) โMozambican authorities have failed to conduct credible investigations into the wave of political killings following the October 2024 general elections, Human Rights Watch said today. Unidentified...
Published on: April 13, 2025 | Source:Civilians Around Sudanโs El Fasher Face New Attacks
Click to expand Image Displaced people who fled the Zamzam camp, gather near the town of Tawila in North Darfur, Sudan, February 14, 2025. 2025 AFP via Getty Images Global leaders need to respond to reports of fresh attacks by Sudanโs Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on the Zamzam displacement camp near North Darfurโs capital of El Fasher. The camp hosts at least half a million people who have fled past and present violence...
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:In Unit 29, Men Incarcerated in Mississippi Tell Their Stories
In a book released last year, men incarcerated in one of Americaโs most notorious prisons tell their stories.
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:Emergency update: Myanmar earthquake
In the midst of its civil war, Myanmar has been struck by a devastating earthquake that killed and injured thousands of people. Local peacebuilders have once again become first responders. They have rapidly reached affected communities that international organisations canโt access and provided support that international governments have failed to deliver. The post Emergency update: Myanmar earthquake appeared first on...
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:US/El Salvador: Venezuelan Deportees Forcibly Disappeared
Relatives of Venezuelan migrants deported from the US to a maximum security prison in El Salvador attend a vigil in front of the El Salvadoran embassy in Caracas on April 2, 2025. JUAN BARRETO/AFP via Getty Images (Washington, DC) โ The governments of theUnited States andEl Salvador have subjected more than 200Venezuelan nationals to enforced disappearances and arbitrary detention, Human Rights Watch said today.On...
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:Instead of Addressing Child Abuse Prevention, Trump Attacks Trans Youth
Click to expand Image People attend a rally in Union Square supporting transgender youth, New York City, US, February 8, 2025. 2025 Spencer Platt/Getty Images In hisproclamation for National Child Abuse Prevention Month, rather than addressing real threats to children like the federal governmentshould do, United States President Donald J. Trump focused almost exclusively on attacking supporters of transgender youth....
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:Women Arenโt Bad at Taking RisksโThe System Is Just Rigged
Women typically invest less than men. Itโs not that they are unwillingโthe problem lies in how investing has been portrayed. For too long, itโs been framed as a high-stakes game requiring bold, aggressive risk-taking. But that narrative is misleading.
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:Is the New Political Order Undoing Decades of Healthcare Progress?
The United States stands at a political crossroads as recent policy changes threaten to unravel decades of progress toward healthcare equity and accessibility. Are current political shifts merely the latest iteration of a familiar cycle, or do they represent a deeper erosion of foundational healthcare infrastructure?
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:The Unraveling of Rural Healthcare in Wisconsin and Beyond
Rural hospitals are closing at an alarming rate. What are the reasons for the often abrupt closures, and what happens to the patients and communities left behind?
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:The Trump Administrationโs Assaults on Black History
This week, it was reported that the United States National Park Service had begunscrubbing information from its exhibits about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad; one of the most significant stories of resistance against chattel slavery in the United States. The move would have destroyed knowledge about how oppressed people in the United States have successfully fought for freedom. While the Park Servicewalked...
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:New Data Exposes Global Healthcare Funding Inequalities
Click to expand Image A client waits to be seen by a doctor during an HIV clinic day at TASO Mulago service center in Kampala, Uganda, February 17, 2025. 2025 Hajarah Nalwadda/Getty Images New data from the World Health Organization reveals that many governmentsโ public funding of health care falls short of what is needed to meet their human rights obligations.The vast majority of people live in countries where low...
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:South Sudan: Incendiary Bombs Kill, Burn Civilians
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 (Nairobi) โ South Sudanโs use of improvised air-dropped incendiary weapons has killed and horrifically burned dozens of people, including children, and destroyed civilian...
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:China/Vietnam: Suspicious Death of Tibetan High Lama
Click to expand Image Humkar Dorje Rinpoche, date unknown. 2025 Tibet.net (Taipei) โ The Vietnamese government should investigate the death under suspicious circumstances of a senior Tibetan lama, Humkar Dorje Rinpoche, in Ho Chi Minh City on March 29, 2025, Human Rights Watch said today.Humkar Dorje, 56, died following months of concern by the Tibetan community about his whereabouts and well-being. His followers in...
Published on: April 09, 2025 | Source: