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Cameroon: Main Opposition Candidate Barred from Elections
Click to expand Image Cameroonian politician Maurice Kamto, newly nominated African Movement for New Independence and Democracy (MANIDEM) presidential candidate, speaks during a press conference in Yaounde on July 19, 2025. 2025 AFP via Getty Images (Nairobi) – The decision byCameroon’s electoral board to exclude Maurice Kamto, a key opposition leader and challenger to incumbent President Paul Biya, from the country’s...
Published on: July 30, 2025 | Source:
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Angola: Protest Defendants Await Appeals a Year On
Click to expand Image People hold up a sign that reads “A country badly governed” during a march against rising fuel prices and the end of street vending in Luanda, Angola, June 17, 2023. 2023 ROGERIO/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (Johannesburg) – Nearly 200 people convicted inAngola a year ago after unfair trials are still imprisoned and waiting for their appeals to be heard, Human Rights Watch said today.On July 30, 2024,...
Published on: July 30, 2025 | Source:Australia: Protect Whistleblowers from Retaliation
Click to expand Image Australian Parliament in Canberra at sunrise. Kinson C Photography via Getty Images (Sydney, July 30, 2025)– The Australian government should create a dedicated Whistleblower Protection Authority to support and protect public-interest whistleblowers, Human Rights Watch said in a recent submission to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee of the Australian Senate.Since February...
Published on: July 29, 2025 | Source:Ethiopia: Proposed Legal Changes Threaten Civil Society
Click to expand Image Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, center-left on the podium and on the video screens, addresses the parliament in Addis Ababa, November 15, 2022. 2022 AP Photo (Nairobi) – Ethiopian lawmakers should reject proposed amendments to the civil society law that would grant the government sweeping powers to restrict nongovernmental organizations, Human Rights Watch said today. Ethiopia’s partners...
Published on: July 29, 2025 | Source:Forget the Silent Auction: How to Focus Your Fundraising Energy
Rhea Wong answers your fundraising questions, emphasizing action over perfection, authentic donor engagement, and focus over busy-ness.
Published on: July 29, 2025 | Source:Burnout Rates Across Nonprofits Are Rising—but Flexible Reporting Could Help
Burnout in the nonprofit sector is, and will continue to be, an ongoing issue. But advocates see flexible, relationship-centered grant reporting as a solution to burnout and a step toward more equitable philanthropy.
Published on: July 29, 2025 | Source:From Service to Power—Retooling the Nonprofit Sector
The nonprofit sector is large, employing nearly one in 10 US workers. This means nonprofits have potential power. Converting that potential into real power, however, requires a change in mindset.
Published on: July 29, 2025 | Source:New Bill Could Curb Exploitation of US Gig Workers
Click to expand Image A food delivery driver in Lone Tree, Colorado, March 30, 2020. 2020 David Zalubowski/AP Photo The gig economy runs on hidden rules. Every day, millions of workers in the United States log into apps like Uber, DoorDash, and Amazon Flex to earn a living, without knowing how much they’ll be paid, how jobs are assigned, or if they might be kicked off a platform and why.A new bill in Congress could...
Published on: July 29, 2025 | Source:US Labor Officials Seek to Roll Back Protections—the Time to Comment Is Now!
The US Labor Department this month issued over 60 proposed changes to worker protections. But most haven’t taken effect—yet. The time for public comment is now.
Published on: July 29, 2025 | Source:Iraq: Damage to Kurdistan Region Oil Fields Puts Rights at Risk
Click to expand Image The Sarsang oilfield operated by HKN Energy, after a drone attack, in Duhok province, Iraq, July 17, 2025. 2025 Azad Lashkari/Reuters (Beirut) – Drone strikes on five oil fields in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) by unknown groups between July 14 and 16, 2025, significantly damaged the region’s energy production, Human Rights Watch said today.The drone strikes mark a dangerous escalation in a...
Published on: July 29, 2025 | Source:Myanmar: Arakan Army Oppresses Rohingya Muslims
Click to expand Image A family who fled from Buthidaung, Myanmar, at a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, June 25, 2024. 2024 Mohammad Ponir (Bangkok) – The Arakan Army, an ethnic armed group inMyanmar’s western Rakhine State, has imposed severe restrictions and committed grave abuses against the ethnicRohingya population, Human Rights Watch said today.The Arakan Army’s territorial gains in the state have been...
Published on: July 28, 2025 | Source:Addressing the Medical Debt Crisis, One Bill at a Time
The work of medical debt relief organizations is even more critical now as millions of people are expected to be funneled into medical debt following the passage of the GOP tax bill.
Published on: July 28, 2025 | Source:The New Student Loan Regime—Pauses, Pain, and Limits on Forgiveness
The US student loan system has long been a mess. Under Biden, some progress was being made. But the Trump administration has more than reversed those gains.
Published on: July 28, 2025 | Source:Attacks on Journalists a Warning Sign for Civil Society
Escalating attacks on journalists in the United States during recent protests signal a broader threat to civil society, press freedom, and the democratic role of nonprofits.
Published on: July 28, 2025 | Source:Is Nothing Sacred? Western Apache Face Irreversible Loss for Copper Profits
In Arizona, copper mining threatens a Western Apache sacred site. In the name of securing domestic energy, Native American communities face mounting threats.
Published on: July 28, 2025 | Source:Venezuela: Political Persecution a Year After Elections
Click to expand Image Relatives of detainees take part in a demonstration demanding the release of political prisoners in front of the Public Prosecutor's Office in Caracas on November 21, 2024. 2024 FEDERICO PARRA/AFP via Getty Images (Washington, DC) –Venezuelan authorities are carrying out widespread abuses against critics through politically motivated arrests, a year after the presidential election, Human Rights...
Published on: July 28, 2025 | Source:Afghan Women Continue to Fight for Bodily Autonomy
Click to expand Image Afghan women walk past razor barricades along a roadside in Kabul on December 8, 2024. 2025 Ahmad Sahelarman/AFP via Getty Images Since July 16, the Taliban have arrested dozens of women and girls in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, for allegedly violating Taliban dress codes. The slew of arrests mark yet another continuation of the Taliban’s relentless attack on women’s autonomy, causing fear and...
Published on: July 28, 2025 | Source:Thailand/Cambodia: Protect Civilians Amid Border Clashes
Click to expand Image Cambodians who fled Thai-Cambodian border clashes line up to receive assistance in Oddar Meanchey province, Cambodia, July 25, 2025. 2025 Heng Sinith/AP Photo (Bangkok) – Escalating border clashes between Thailand and Cambodia involving explosive weapons have killed and injured civilians since fighting began on July 24, 2025, Human Rights Watch said today. The two countries have longstanding...
Published on: July 26, 2025 | Source:How Nonprofits Can Help Shape AI Governance
As the influence of artificial intelligence grows, the lack of governance and representation in its development is increasingly problematic. Nonprofits can play a vital role in ensuring AI is equitable and community-informed.
Published on: July 25, 2025 | Source:Two Protests, Two Continents: Grassroots Movements Against Toxic Waste Disposal
What can the people-powered protests movements of Pithampur, India, and North Carolina’s Warren County teach us?
Published on: July 25, 2025 | Source:New Report Looks at Lessons Learned from Bail Out Campaign
Women make up the fastest-growing incarcerated population in the country. A new report looks at the lessons learned from efforts to bail out incarcerated Black women in California.
Published on: July 25, 2025 | Source:Sahel Region: African Union Appoints Special Envoy
Click to expand Image Burundi's president Évariste Ndayishimiye at the European Union-Africa Union Summit in Brussels, Belgium, on Feb. 17, 2022. 2022 Valeria Mongelli/Bloomberg via Getty Images (Nairobi) – The African Union’s (AU) appointment of Burundi’s president as its special envoy for the Sahel region strengthens the AU’s capacity to address the most pressing human rights challenges facing Mali, Burkina Faso and...
Published on: July 25, 2025 | Source:World Court Rules Tackling Climate Crisis is an International Legal Obligation
Click to expand Image Ralph Regenvanu, Vanuatu's minister for climate change, speaks surrounded by demonstrators at the International Court of Justice ahead of an advisory opinion on what legal obligations nations have to address climate change in The Hague, Netherlands, July 23, 2025. 2025 Peter Dejong/AP Photo The International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued a unanimous opinion on July 23, 2025, that climate change...
Published on: July 24, 2025 | Source:Russia Clamps Down on Online Searches
Click to expand Image Police detain an activist in front of the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, in Moscow, Russia, July 22, 2025, before lawmakers approved a bill that punishes online searches for information that is deemed "extremist." 2025 AP Photo This week, Russia’s State Duma, the lower chamber of parliament,adopted a draft law that imposes fines on ordinary citizens for “intentionally”...
Published on: July 24, 2025 | Source:Central African Republic: ICC Convicts Two Anti-Balaka Leaders
Click to expand Image Alfred Yékatom, left, and Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona, right, taken on Nov. 23, 2018 and Jan. 25, 2019 respectively when they appeared before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands. Piroschka van de Wouw/ Koen Van Well/AP Photo (Geneva) – The International Criminal Court (ICC) conviction of two anti-balaka militia leaders for serious crimes in theCentral African Republic...
Published on: July 24, 2025 | Source:Ukraine ‘Suspends’ Vital Mine Ban Treaty
Click to expand Image A humanitarian deminer at work in Mykolaiv region, Ukraine, April 16, 2025. 2025 Yuliia Ovsiannikova/Ukrinform via AP Photo On July 18, Ukraine formally informed the United Nations that it has suspended its operation of the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, the landmark international treaty prohibiting antipersonnel landmines. The action puts civilians at risk, undermines fundamental humanitarian and legal...
Published on: July 24, 2025 | Source:We Stood Up to Demand Fair Pay
At a nonprofit workplace, a union contract offers workers valuable protections. But those provisions only become meaningful when workers stand up to enforce them.
Published on: July 24, 2025 | Source:What Does Solidarity Require? A More Expansive “We”
The Declaration of Independence says: “We hold these truths to be self-evident.” But who is that “we”? That has always been contested—as it is today.
Published on: July 24, 2025 | Source:“We’re Not Meant to Do Life Alone”: The Invisible Network of Nonprofits
Beneath the familiar chaos of daily life there is a quiet, constant interaction with a web of nonprofits. From healthcare and education to emotional support and hurricane recovery, one woman’s story reveals how deeply interwoven nonprofits are in the fabric of our communities.
Published on: July 24, 2025 | Source:Ukraine: New Law Undercuts Independence of Anti-Corruption Bodies
Click to expand Image Ukrainians protest near the presidential office in the capital Kyiv against a newly passed law that curbs the independence of anti- corruption institutions, the first protest of its kind since Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine, July 22, 2025. 2025 Stanislav Kozliuk/Reuters (Kyiv) - A new law adopted by Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, on July 22, 2025, effectively strips Ukraine’s...
Published on: July 24, 2025 | Source:Anti-Corruption Activist Under Pressure in Ukraine
Click to expand Image Vitaliy Shabunin during a hearing in his case at the Pecherskyi District Court in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 15, 2025. 2025 Oleksandr Sinitsa/UNIAN On July 11, Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) conducted searchestargeting Vitaliy Shabunin, a prominent anti-corruption activist who has played a key role in exposing allegations of government corruption. Shabunin recently criticized the...
Published on: July 24, 2025 | Source:Brazil: Lula Should Veto Environmental Protection Rollback
Deforested area within the Governador Indigenous Land, in the state of Maranhão, in November 2017. Non-Indigenous people removed the most valuable timber and then burned the area for cultivation. Photo by César Muñoz Acebes. (São Paulo) - Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva should veto a bill that dismantles environmental licensing and poses serious threats to environment-related human rights across the...
Published on: July 24, 2025 | Source:India: Hundreds of Muslims Unlawfully Expelled to Bangladesh
Click to expand Image Police officers detain alleged undocumented Bangladeshi nationals after they were arrested during raids in Ahmedabad, India, April 26, 2025. 2025 Amit Dave/Reuters Indian authorities have expelled hundreds of ethnic Bengali Muslims toBangladesh in recent weeks without due process, claiming they are illegal immigrants.The authorities’ claims that they are managing irregular immigration are...
Published on: July 24, 2025 | Source:What Nonprofits Need to Know About Birthright Citizenship’s Legal Limbo
How nonprofits can prepare as a controversial executive order seeks to challenge birthright citizenship.
Published on: July 23, 2025 | Source:Can a New Labor Institute Advance Black Workers’ Rights in the South?
Jobs with Justice and Clark Atlanta University, a historically Black college, together create a new institute focused on developing Black labor leaders.
Published on: July 23, 2025 | Source: