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Iran: Imminent Threat to Amputate Prisoners' Fingers

Click to expand Image Hadi Rostami. Kurdistan Human Rights Newtork (Beirut) –Iranian authorities are preparing to carry out finger amputation sentences, as early as April 11, 2025, against three men imprisoned for theft following grossly unfair trials, Human Rights Watch said today. All United Nations member states should urgently call on Iran to abide by its human rights obligations and immediately revoke these...

Published on: April 09, 2025 | Source:

Human Rights Watch

Votes: 0

Planning for Success: Why Asset Transfers to Communities Matter

Foundations often offer loans to community groups. This may seem efficient but can make projects precarious. Gifting assets, by contrast, sets groups up for success.

Published on: April 09, 2025 | Source:

Nonprofit Quarterly

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How the Black South and Labor Can Unite to Create Pathways to Good Jobs

Georgia is the cradle of the civil rights movement, but, as elsewhere, Black workers still lack equitable access to good jobs. What can be done?

Published on: April 09, 2025 | Source:

Nonprofit Quarterly

Votes: 0

Unite in Advance: Philanthropy Coalition Launches Solidarity Campaign

A philanthropy coalition launches a solidarity campaign to defend the freedom to support our essential nonprofit sector.

Published on: April 09, 2025 | Source:

Nonprofit Quarterly

Votes: 0

Thailand: US Scholar Detained on Royal Insult Charge

Click to expand Image Paul Chambers, Thailand, April 8, 2025. 2025 Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (Bangkok) – Thai authorities should immediately release and drop the groundless charges against Paul Chambers, a leading Thai studies scholar, Human Rights Watch said today.On April 8, 2025, Chambers was detained after he reported to police in Phitsanulok province regarding lese majeste (insulting the monarchy) and...

Published on: April 09, 2025 | Source:

Human Rights Watch

Votes: 0

The Case for Solidarity Between Nonprofit and Federal Workers

The Trump administration’s efforts to axe federal workers and roll back union rights makes evident the urgent need for solidarity between nonprofit and federal workers.

Published on: April 08, 2025 | Source:

Nonprofit Quarterly

Votes: 0

How to Not “Obey in Advance”—Actions for Resisting Authoritarianism

These are not normal times for nonprofits and movements. But these times also provide an opportunity to recommit to mission and advance the values that we hold dear.

Published on: April 08, 2025 | Source:

Nonprofit Quarterly

Votes: 0

“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:

Nonprofit Quarterly

Votes: 0

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:

Nonprofit Quarterly

Votes: 0

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:

Human Rights Watch

Votes: 0

‘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:

Human Rights Watch

Votes: 0

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

Votes: 0

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:

Human Rights Watch

Votes: 0

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:

Human Rights Watch

Votes: 0

How Nonprofits Can Create Ethical AI Policies

Fast Forward is helping nonprofits develop AI policies.

Published on: April 07, 2025 | Source:

Nonprofit Quarterly

Votes: 0

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:

Nonprofit Quarterly

Votes: 0

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:

Human Rights Watch

Votes: 0

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:

Human Rights Watch

Votes: 0

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:

Human Rights Watch

Votes: 0

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:

Human Rights Watch

Votes: 0

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:

Human Rights Watch

Votes: 0

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:

Nonprofit Quarterly

Votes: 0

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:

Human Rights Watch

Votes: 0

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:

Nonprofit Quarterly

Votes: 0

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:

Nonprofit Quarterly

Votes: 0

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:

Human Rights Watch

Votes: 0

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...