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Click to expand Image The United Nations Human Rights Council, Geneva, Switzerland, February 26, 2024. 2024 Hannes Albert/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Photo The United Nations Human Rights Council on October 6 extended a project to gather evidence of human rights violations and war crimes associated with Sri Lankaโs civil war for at least two more years. The resolution adopted by consensus offers a ray of hope to victims...
Published on: October 06, 2025 | Source:
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Deploying Capital Power to Defend and Build Movements
Muslim organizations and movements were targeted after the 9/11 attacks as the Right leveraged philanthropic investment to fortify its infrastructure. What happens if we fail to invest in movements at scale while the other side consolidates power?
Published on: October 06, 2025 | Source:Time Banking, Aging, and the Future of Care
The worldโs population is rapidly aging. Time banking, a concept developed in Japan and the United States, offers a promising path to build peer networks among older adults.
Published on: October 06, 2025 | Source:UN Rights Council Creates Afghanistan Accountability Body
Click to expand Image The United Nations Human Rights Council, Geneva, Switzerland, February 26, 2024. 2024 Hannes Albert/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Photo (Geneva) โ The United Nations Human Rights Council on October 6, 2025, adopted a landmark resolution creating an independent mechanism to investigate past and ongoing rights abuses in Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch said today. The resolution puts the Taliban and all...
Published on: October 06, 2025 | Source:Yemen: Houthis Arrest Dozens Commemorating National Holiday
Click to expand Image A person waves Yemeni flags during a ceremony marking the anniversary of the September 1962 revolution in Sanaa, Yemen. 2016 Mohamed al-Sayaghi/Reuters (Beirut) โ Houthi authorities arrested dozens of people in the last week of September 2025, as they have in past years, for peacefully celebrating or posting on social media about the anniversary of Yemenโs โSeptember 26 Revolution,โ Human Rights...
Published on: October 06, 2025 | Source:Darfur: ICC Convicts Former Janjaweed Militia Leader
Click to expand Image Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman attends the delivery of the judgement in the case against him before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, October 6, 2025. 2025 Piroschka van de Wouw/AP Photo (The Hague) โ The first International Criminal Court (ICC) conviction of a former leader of the โJanjaweedโ militias for serious crimes in Sudanโs Darfur region spotlights the need...
Published on: October 06, 2025 | Source:Israel/Palestine: States Should Act to Halt Atrocities
Click to expand Image Displaced Palestinians returning to the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on January 19, 2025. 2025 Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP via Getty Images (Jerusalem) โUnited States President Donald Trumpโs โComprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict,โannounced on September 29, 2025, is no substitute for the urgent action governments need to take to protect civilians and support justice after two...
Published on: October 06, 2025 | Source:Postcards from the Edge: Revolutionary Visions in Perilous Times
We are on the edge of an economic revolution, one in which local leaders in emerging communities are laying the groundwork for a new solidarity economy.
Published on: October 03, 2025 | Source:US: Informed Health Choices Harder under Trump
Click to expand Image The picture shows the emblem of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Tim Brakemeier/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images (Washington, DC) โ TheUnited States Department of Health and Human Services under the Trump administration appears to be letting politicized and ideological priorities impact the availability of health-related information, Human Rights Watch said today....
Published on: October 03, 2025 | Source:Disasters Destroyed Their Homes. Then the Real Estate โVulturesโ Swooped In.
โWe buy homesโ companies are procuring disaster-damaged properties for cheap. Survivors say they're taking advantage of tragedy.
Published on: October 03, 2025 | Source:Chadโs Weaponization of Citizenship
Click to expand Image Charfadine Galmaye Saleh (L) and Makaila Nguebla. Private On September 17, theChadian authoritiespublished a decree purporting to strip blogger Makaila Nguebla and journalist Charfadine Galmaye Saleh of their nationality. The move marks a chilling escalation in the repression of dissent. By wielding citizenship as a political weapon, the government not only violates international law but crosses...
Published on: October 02, 2025 | Source:Justice for Palestinians Canโt Wait for a Peace Deal
Click to expand Image French President Emmanuel Macron addresses the 80th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York, September 23, 2025. 2025 Eduardo Munoz/Reuters The calamitous situation in Gaza, with Palestinian civilians facing extermination and ethnic cleansing by Israeli forces, was a major focus of the annual United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) high-level week. Along withrecognition of...
Published on: October 02, 2025 | Source:UN Official Addresses Need for Colonial, Enslavement Era Reparations
Click to expand Image The Reparations Task Force meets to hear public input on reparations at the California Science Center in Los Angeles, US, September 22, 2022. 2022 Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Volker Tรผrk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, stressed the need and urgency forcomprehensive reparatory justice for historical and ongoing harm linked to colonialism and...
Published on: October 02, 2025 | Source:We Organized Our Nonprofit and Lost Our Jobs, But Weโd Do It Again
When management responded to a nonprofit union by seeking to replace workers with an AI chatbot, workers stood up and brought their story directly into the public square.
Published on: October 02, 2025 | Source:United States: Trump Call to Militarize Cities Risks Abuse
Click to expand Image Members of the military attend a meeting convened by US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, at Marine Corps Base Quantico, in Quantico, Virginia, September 30, 2025. 2025 Kevin Lamarque/Reuters (Washington, DC) โ Remarks by United States Secretary of DefensePete Hegseth and President Donald Trump at ajoint address to top military leaders on September 30, 2025, raise grave concerns that the...
Published on: October 02, 2025 | Source:The End of the NEA
A federal judge has ruled the new anti-DEI requirement of the National Endowment for the Arts is unconstitutional. For writers, itโs too late.
Published on: October 02, 2025 | Source:Mexico: Supreme Court Risks Weakening Disability Rights
Click to expand Image Justices Giovanni Azael Figueroa Mejia, Loretta Ortiz Ahlf, Lenia Batres Guadarrama, Hugo Aguilar Ortiz, Yasmin Esquivel Mossa, Maria Estela Rios Gonzalez, Irving Espinosa Betanzo, and Sara Irene Herrerias Guerrera during the first official session of the Mexican Supreme Court at Supreme Court building on September 10, 2025 in Mexico City, Mexico. 2025 Jeannette Flores/ObturadorMX/Getty Images...
Published on: October 02, 2025 | Source:Brazil: Rio de Janeiro Bill Will Encourage Police Shootings
Activists hold a sign that reads in Portuguese "Justice for Jacarezinho. End massacres in favelas" during a protest a day after police killed 27 people during an operation in Jacarezinho favela, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on May 7, 2021. Wilton Junior/Estadรฃo conteรบdo (Agencia Estado via AP Images) (Sรฃo Paulo) โ The governor of the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro should veto provisions in a new bill that would give...
Published on: October 02, 2025 | Source:Vendetta in Democratic Republic of Congo
Click to expand Image Former Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila arrives in Goma, May 29, 2025. 2025 Moses Sawasawa/AP Photo A Congolese military courtโsconviction and death sentence imposed on former President Joseph Kabila on September 30 highlights the fragile balance between accountability and political stability in theDemocratic Republic of Congo. The trial, for charges ranging from treason to...
Published on: October 01, 2025 | Source:Mali Puts Free Speech on Trial
Click to expand Image Former Mali Prime Minister Moussa Mara in Bamako, on February 21, 2025. 2025 Ousmane Makaveli/AFP via Getty Images On Tuesday, former Prime Minister Moussa Mara stood calmly before a court inMaliโs capital, Bamako, while the judgesrejected his lawyersโ application for his release on bail. The prosecution insteadsought a two-year prison sentence, an action encapsulating the military juntaโs...
Published on: October 01, 2025 | Source:The Case for a Co-op Mutualist Fund: Why Co-ops Should Invest in Themselves
Future federal funding for co-op development, which has always been limited, is now at risk. But co-ops have resources. Hereโs how co-ops could self-finance their own development.
Published on: October 01, 2025 | Source:Working Together Across Generations
Cultivating good communication habits can help nonprofits to bridge generational divides and enable workers to contribute their full creativity, wisdom, and energy.
Published on: October 01, 2025 | Source:The New COVID Vaccine Rules Leave Parents with More Questions Than Answers
Eligibility for postpartum people has changed, and while children can still access shots, questions about the cost and availability are still unclear.
Published on: October 01, 2025 | Source:Afghanistan: Internet Shutdowns Imperil Rights
Click to expand Image Women in their office in Kabul, Afghanistan, July 3, 2024. 2024 Siddiqullah Alizai/AP Photo (New York) โ The Talibanโs internet shutdowns are inflicting serious harm on peopleโs rights and livelihoods throughout Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch said today. The shutdowns, which began in mid-September 2025 and covered the entire country by the monthโs end, have impeded access to education, commerce,...
Published on: October 01, 2025 | Source:Indonesiaโs Mass Killings 60 Years on Still Demand Justice
Click to expand Image A discussion about the 1965-1966 massacres in a Jakarta bookstore with Martin Aleida, a former political prisoner (a journalist of the Harian Rakjat, a mouthpiece of the Communist Party of Indonesia), Nani Nurrachman Sutojo (the daughter of a general killed by the September 30th Movement), and Eunike Sri Tyas Suci, a psychologist who edited a book on the traumas of the victims, September 30, 2025....
Published on: September 30, 2025 | Source:Talibanโs Internet Ban Further Silences Afghan Women, Girls
Click to expand Image In July 2012, Afghan women and girls visit an internet cafe called "Young Women for Change" in Kabul, Afghanistan. 2012 Shah Marai/AFP Last week, the Taliban ordered aninternet ban across several of Afghanistanโs northern provinces. On September 30, they fully shut down the internet, both mobile and fibre optic,nationwide.The Taliban claim the ban is to โprevent immorality.โ In Afghanistan,...
Published on: September 30, 2025 | Source:How Building with Community Can Transform Public Education
Public education today faces multiple federal attacks. But at the state and local levels, a community-based model to build strong public schools for all is gaining ground.
Published on: September 30, 2025 | Source:Olympics: Secret Process Threatens Fairness and Inclusion
Click to expand Image The Olympic House, headquarters of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne, Switzerland, March 28, 2023. 2023 Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP Photo (Amsterdam) โ The International Olympic Committeeโs (IOC) decision tocreate a new working group on the โprotection of the female categoryโ without disclosing its members or process presents an alarming risk for all women athletes, the...
Published on: September 30, 2025 | Source:Unmuzzling Nonprofits: Is It Time for the Johnson Amendment to Go?
For many, the Johnson Amendment is seen as a vital tool to shield nonprofits from political interference. But the rule also has served to politically weaken the sector.
Published on: September 30, 2025 | Source:Building Relationships with Major Donors, from Hot Shots to Cool Cucumbers
In this installment of Ask Rhea, Rhea offers advice on working with major donors, emphasizing taking the time to build relationships.
Published on: September 30, 2025 | Source:Japan Court Drops Key Legal Hurdle for Transgender People
Click to expand Image Participants at the Tokyo Trans March in Shibuya district of Tokyo, March 31, 2023. 2023 Yuichi Yamazaki/AFP via Getty Images A court in Japan has ruled that the legal requirement that transgender people alter the appearance of their genitals to change their legal gender is unconstitutional. The September 19 ruling of the Sapporo Family Court in Hokkaido prefecture adds to the nationwide momentum...
Published on: September 29, 2025 | Source:Digital Access Advocates Fight Against Exclusion
Accessing public benefits in the United States has never been easy. Often, digitalization makes it even harder. But advocates are organizing to respond.
Published on: September 29, 2025 | Source:Fighting Disinformation on the Chinese American Front Lines
False narratives are proliferating across Chinese-language media. Fortunately, new in-language nonprofit digital publications are helping to contain disinformation.
Published on: September 29, 2025 | Source:As Israel Escalates Assault, Germany Should Support EU Action on Gaza
Click to expand Image Activists set up pictures of children from Gaza in front of the Reichstag building during a protest calling for greater commitment of the German government to the children of Gaza and the defense of international law, in Berlin, Germany, July 9, 2025. 2025 Lisi Niesner/Reuters As Israel escalates its extermination campaign in Gaza, Israeli military attacks in Gaza City continue to result in mass...
Published on: September 29, 2025 | Source:UN: Support Protection, Justice for Rohingya
Click to expand Image Rohingya refugees walk through rice fields after crossing the border from Myanmar into Palang Khali, Bangladesh, October 19, 2017. 2017 Jorge Silva/Reuters (New York) โUnited Nations member states meeting on September 30, 2025, on the plight of Rohingya Muslims should commit to urgent action to protect them from persecution and violence, Human Rights Watch said today. Rohingya inMyanmar,...
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