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Whatβs Next? Why Co-ops Are Essential in the Fight for Democracy
Building community-based economic infrastructure hasnβt been a major element of most democratic strategy. But co-op experience shows us it should be. Here is why.
Published on: August 06, 2025 | Source:
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From Sunset to Sunrise: A Philanthropic Investment in Indigenous Sovereignty
What does decolonizing philanthropy require? Ultimately, it is about transferring assets to communities. Hereβs a story of one βspend-downβ effort that is doing precisely that.
Published on: August 06, 2025 | Source:Lebanon: Israeli Forces Occupied, Vandalized Schools
Click to expand Image Damage to a classroom in Naqqoura Intermediate Public School, Lebanon, January 31, 2025. 2025 Human Rights Watch Israeli forces occupied schools in southern Lebanon during hostilities between September and November 2024 and in the following weeks, used some of them as barracks, and appear to have intentionally vandalized, pillaged, and destroyed school property.The hostilities between Israel and...
Published on: August 06, 2025 | Source:No Appointment, No Asylum: What Does True Asylum Justice Require?
The Trump administration shuttered the asylum app CBP One, leaving hundreds of thousands in limbo. But justice demands better than restoring the app.
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:From Wish List to Reality: Managing Tech Change in Nonprofits
The first article in Afua Bruce's new column, The Impact Algorithm, calls for nonprofits to embrace structured change management when adopting new technologies, recognizing tech change as a strategic and people-centered transformation essential to mission success.
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:Over a Million Queer Women Rely on Medicaid. What Happens If They Lose It?
Lesbian and bisexual women are more likely to be low-income, more likely to be parents and more likely to rely on Medicaid. They could fall through the cracks of Trumpβs new tax law.
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:Study Looks at Impact of Wraparound Services for Low-Income College Students
In a new randomized controlled trial, a Texas-based nonprofit is seeking to show the impact of wraparound support for low-income college students.
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:Afghanistan: Relentless Repression 4 Years into Taliban Rule
Click to expand Image Afghan returnees cross the border from Iran, on July 3, 2025, in Islam Qala, Afghanistan. 2025 Elise Blanchard/Getty Images (New York) β The Taliban have deepened their repression since taking over Afghanistan on August 15, 2021, by intensifying restrictions on the rights of women and girls, detaining journalists, and silencing all dissent, Human Rights Watch said today. Afghanistan now faces one...
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:University Professors Are Latest Targets of FOIA Requests
Dozens of professors at UNC Chapel Hill were recently targeted with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:Can Labor Organizers Transform a Moment into a Movement?
The past few years have seen a labor surge, but union numbers remain flat. At a June gathering in Detroit, some 300 organizers came together to try to change that.
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:Building Together: How to Create a Worker-Led Workforce Development System
The US workforce development system often fails workers. But in communities ranging from Detroit to San Francisco, a more effective worker-centered vision is emerging.
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:What Is βCivil Societyββand How Is It Under Threat?
βCivil societyβ is a term that seems to cropping up everywhere lately. But what is βcivil societyβ exactly, and how to politics impact it?
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:For Plastics Treaty, End Pollution at its Source
Click to expand Image A prop depicting a water tap with cascading plastic bottles is displayed by activists near the Shaw Centre venue of negotiations for the global plastics treaty, in Ottawa, Canada, April 23, 2024. 2024 Kyaw Soe Oo/Reuters Countries willresume negotiations in Geneva on August 5, 2025, on a global plastics treaty. Previous talks have stalled amiddeep divisions over key issues. To make the treaty...
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:From Courts to Community Power: Trans Rights Advocates Respond to Skrmettiβs Fallout
The United States v. Skrmetti decision was a blow to trans rights movements. But LGBTQ+ advocates are mobilizing quickly and creatively to protect their communities without relying solely on the courts or state laws that may be undermined by the Trump administration.
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:Lebanon: Five Years Without Justice for Port Explosion Victims
Click to expand Image Relatives of the victims of the deadly 2020 Beirut blast hold portraits of their loved ones on the fourth anniversary of the blast, August 4, 2024. 2024 AP Photo / Hussein (Beirut) βLebanese authorities have yet to deliver truth and justice for the victims and their families five years after the devastating Beirut port explosion on August 4, 2020, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said...
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:Tanzanian Opposition Leaderβs Trial Again Postponed
Click to expand Image Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu, a former Chadema party presidential candidate, at the magistrate court in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, June 16, 2025. ( 2025 Emmanuel Herman/Reuters This week, aTanzanian courtpostponed the politically motivated treason trial of political opposition leader Tundu Lissu for thefifth time. Since treason is a capital offense, Lissu, who was arrested in April,...
Published on: August 01, 2025 | Source:Oregonβs Nonprofits Describe the Inequities in Government Funding Structures
Oregonβs human service nonprofits are facing a wage disparity compared to the for-profit and public sectors; the unique nature of their work remains undercompensated and overlooked by government funding structures.
Published on: August 01, 2025 | Source:Gaza: Israeli Killings of Palestinians Seeking Food Are War Crimes
Click to expand Image Palestinians at a US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution site for humanitarian aid in the βNetzarim Corridor, "central Gaza Strip, May 29, 2025. 2025 Ahmad Salem/Bloomberg via Getty Images US-backed Israeli forces and private contractors have put in place a flawed, militarized aid distribution system that has turned aid distributions into regular bloodbaths.The dire humanitarian...
Published on: August 01, 2025 | Source:Houthi Video of False Confessions an Apparent War Crime
Click to expand Image The Eternity C sinks after it was struck by a Houthi missile on July 8, 2025, on the Red Sea. 2025 Houthi Media Center/Getty Images Videos released by the Houthis on July 27, 2025, showing several crew members from a sunken ship who apparently have been detained for weeks is an outrage on their personal dignity, an apparent war crime.The Houthis, who control much of Yemen, attacked and sunk the...
Published on: August 01, 2025 | Source:Equal Justice USA to Close amid Federal Funding Cuts
In the wake of federal funding cuts in April, Equal Justice USAβa nonprofit that uses justice-centered strategies to address violenceβhas announced its pending closure.
Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source:Iran: Authorities Amputate Three Prisonersβ Fingers in Acts of Torture
Click to expand Image Hadi Rostami. Kurdistan Human Rights Newtork (Beirut) βIranian authorities used aβguillotine machineβ to amputate fingers of three detained men in the late hours of July 30, 2025, Human Rights Watch said today. The three men, Hadi Rostami, 38, Mehdi Sharifian, 42, and Mehdi Shahivand, 29, had been convicted of theft after grossly unfair trials.An informed source told Human Rights Watch that the...
Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source:When Civic Life Is Breaking, How Can We Rebuild It?
To rebuild civic life, itβs necessary to rebuild a culture of accountability to local communities and a culture of participation rooted in local democratic engagement.
Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source:A Trillion-Dollar Debacle: How Trumpβs Budget Bill Codifies Healthcare Apartheid
The United States has long had a two-tiered health system. Recent budget cuts to Medicaid, coupled with tax cuts for the wealthy, make inequality even worse.
Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source:A Labor Movement That Matters: From May Day to Labor Day and Beyond
For too long, labor has operated in silos. Solidarity is required. May Day 2025 offered a glimpse of what can occur if labor and community together fight the billionaire agenda.
Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source:UK Plans AI Experiment on Children Seeking Asylum
Click to expand Image Manston Detention Centre, in Kent, United Kingdom, is used by the government to detain and process people seeking asylum. In 2022 and in 2024, the government allegedly detained unaccompanied refugee children there by purposefully misclassifying them as adults. Ramsgate, England, June 24, 2025. 2025 Dan Kitwood/Getty Images The United Kingdomβs announcement on July 22 that it would use AI...
Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source:Saint Lucia High Court Decriminalizes Same-Sex Conduct
Click to expand Image A local market in Castries, St Lucia, Caribbean, April 2019. 2019 Fokke Baarssen/Shutterstock In a landmark victory for human rights, Saint Lucia has decriminalized consensual same-sex conduct. The High Courtβs decision strikes down laws that criminalized intimacy between same-sex partners, whichare discriminatory and inconsistent with international human rights standards.Until this ruling, Saint...
Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source:UK Acts to Protect Football from Rights Abusers
Click to expand Image UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer visits Earth City FC at the Fluminense Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, November 19, 2024. 2024 Press Association via AP Photo After years of promises from successive governments and parliamentary ping-pong, the United Kingdom parliament has finally delivered a game-changing reform to how football is governed in England and Wales.On July 21, the Football Governance...
Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source:Burkina Faso Releases Conscripted Journalists, Activist
Click to expand Image Guezouma Sanogo (L) and Boukari Ouoba. Private Earlier in July 2025,Burkina Faso authoritiesreleased five journalists and a human rights activist who had been unlawfully conscripted into the military after criticizing the countryβs military junta. While a positive development, their release is also a stark reminder of others still missing, some since 2024, with no hint as to their whereabouts.On...
Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source:Bangladesh: Year since Hasina Fled, Rights Challenges Abound
Click to expand Image Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus (3rd L) visits three secret detention facilities known as "Ayna Ghor," which had been used as torture cells during the Awami League government's rule, Dhaka, Bangladesh, February 12, 2025. 2025 Nayem Shaan/Drik/Getty Images (New York) β The interim Bangladesh government of Mohammed Yunus is falling short in implementing its challenging human rights agenda a year since...
Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source:US Moves to Kill Ability to Regulate Greenhouse Gases
Click to expand Image Pollution rises from the stacks of the Miami Fort Power Plant, which is situated along the Ohio River near Cincinnati, Ohio, July 11, 2025 2025 Jason Whitman/NurPhoto via AP Photo The Trump administrationproposed on July 29 to revoke the 2009 finding by the Environmental Protection Agency that greenhouse gases endanger public health, a move that would gut the governmentβs ability to regulate...
Published on: July 30, 2025 | Source:TΓΌrkiye: Turkmen Risking Deportation Reported Missing
Click to expand Image Caption: Turkmen activists Alisher Sakhatov (left) and Abdulla Orusov (right). 2025 THF (Berlin) β TwoTurkmen dissident bloggers have been missing since July 24, 2025, when they were reportedly released from aTurkish deportation center, Human Rights Watch said today. Turkish authorities should ensure that the bloggers, Alisher Sakhatov and Abdulla Orusov, are not returned to Turkmenistan, where...
Published on: July 30, 2025 | Source:Why Economic Development Subsidies Are Racistβand What to Do About Them
In the name of job creation, state and local economic development subsidies reinforce structural racism. But increasingly, community activists are resisting these practices.
Published on: July 30, 2025 | Source:How Philanthropy Can Lead in Building Ethical AI for the Public Good
Philanthropy must act decisively to ensure AI development and deployment advance equity, ethics, and the nonprofit sectorβs ability to serve the public good.
Published on: July 30, 2025 | Source:Sixty Years After Medicaid Enactment, Progress Is Rolling Back
Sixty years after the enactment of Medicaid, provisions of the 2025 GOP tax bill seek to roll back progress, potentially leading to millions losing Medicaid, thousands of lives lost, and hundreds of hospitals closed.
Published on: July 30, 2025 | Source:Russia: Internet Blocking, Disruptions and Increasing Isolation
Click to expand Image 2025 Brian Stauffer for Human Rights Watch The Russian authorities carry out mass scale censorship online, throttle websites and online platforms they deem subversive, and increasingly carry out arbitrary and internet shutdowns intensified in scope.Russia has obligations under international law to ensure access to information, freedom of expression, and the right to privacy, including...
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