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Restoring Our Capacities: How an Asset Lens Can Serve Movements Today
To build the movements that our nation and world need today, an asset lens can help us to see community capacities—and more effectively connect people with each other.
Published on: July 23, 2025 | Source:
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Yemen: Houthis' Attacks on Cargo Ships Apparent War Crimes
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 (Beirut) – The Houthi armed group inYemen attacked two commercial cargo vessels in the Red Sea between July 6 and 9, 2025, violations of the laws of war amounting to war crimes, Human Rights Watch said today. The Houthis sunk both ships, killing and injuring several...
Published on: July 23, 2025 | Source:Desperate Pleas from Starving Palestinians Shouldn’t Be Ignored
Click to expand Image A woman consoles her 6-year-old daughter, who is malnourished, at a shelter in central Gaza City, on May 11, 2025. 2025 Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via AP Photo Last summer, my son, then two months old, got sick while visiting family in California. Before our eyes, he rapidly lost weight, falling below his birth weight, until his body went into shock. Doctors later told us he almost died.I will never...
Published on: July 23, 2025 | Source:Niger: Two Years On, Ex-President Still Arbitrarily Detained
Click to expand Image Former Niger President Mohamed Bazoum at the Elysee Palace in Paris, February 16, 2023. 2023 Michel Euler/AP Photo (Nairobi) – Authorities in Niger should immediately release former President Mohamed Bazoum, who remains arbitrarily detained two years after he was ousted in a military coup, Human Rights Watch said today.On July 26, 2023, Nigerien army officers of the self-proclaimed National...
Published on: July 23, 2025 | Source:Clawback of $1.1B for PBS and NPR Puts Rural Stations at Risk—and Threatens a Vital Source of Journalism
Two media scholars break down the impact of budget cuts to public media.
Published on: July 22, 2025 | Source:UN: End Impunity for Israeli Crimes Against Palestinians
Click to expand Image A boy stands amid the ruins of a collapsed building following Israeli bombardment in the Bureij camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip, May 23, 2025. 2025 Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images (New York) –United Nations member countries should use the ministerial-level conference on Palestine on July 28-29, 2025, topublicly commit to concrete actions aimed at ending decades of impunity...
Published on: July 22, 2025 | Source:How to Convert a Business to Worker Co-op Ownership: A 10-Step Process
How can workers become owners of the business where they work? John Abrams, who founded a company that later became a worker co-op, lays out key steps.
Published on: July 22, 2025 | Source:Leadership and Worker Ownership: A Conversation with John Abrams
Employee ownership of businesses has the potential to be a tool of social transformation. Getting there, however, requires building the muscle of democratic leadership.
Published on: July 22, 2025 | Source:Syria: Abuses, Humanitarian Emergency Amid Sweida Clashes
Click to expand Image Syrian government security forces stand atop an earth barrier that they created as a buffer during their deployment in Busra al-Harir in Syria’s southern Daraa province on July 21, 2025. 2025 Omar Haj Kadour / AFP (Beirut) – Nine days of armed clashes and serious abuses in Syria’s southern Sweida governorate have triggered a dire humanitarian crisis, Human Rights Watch said today. The fighting...
Published on: July 22, 2025 | Source:Kazakhstan: Journalists Denied Accreditation
Click to expand Image Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry building in Astana, April 21, 2017. 2017 Болат Шайхинов/Sputnik via AP Photo (Berlin, July 22, 2025) – The decision byKazakhstan’s Foreign Affairs Ministry to withhold accreditation from 16 journalists for the Kazakh service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is a blatant attack on independent media, Human Rights Watch said today. The decision undermines press...
Published on: July 22, 2025 | Source:Mali: Army, Wagner Group Disappear, Execute Fulani Civilians
Click to expand Image Russian fighters from the Wagner Group in northern Mali in an undated photo posted by the French military in 2022. 2022 French Army via AP Photo Mali’s armed forces and the allied Russia-backed Wagner Group have committed dozens of summary executions and enforced disappearances of ethnic Fulani men since January 2025.The Malian soldiers and Wagner Group fighters accuse the Fulani community of...
Published on: July 22, 2025 | Source:They Say Climate Tech Will Save Us, but Who Will Save Us from Climate Tech?
As climate tech, including AI, races ahead, are these solutions helping or hastening the climate crisis?
Published on: July 21, 2025 | Source:The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: What’s Next for AmeriCorps?
When it comes to the state of AmeriCorps, lawsuits and advocacy have made a difference. But the federal service program remains at risk of termination.
Published on: July 21, 2025 | Source:Jordan: Petra’s Bedul Bedouin Community Displaced
Click to expand Image Bedul women making bread in one of the caves in Stooh al-Nabi Harun Mountain, Jordan. 2025 Private (Beirut) – TheJordanian government is forcibly evicting the Bedul, a group of Bedouins fromPetra, in clear violation of their economic, social, and cultural rights, including their right to housing, Human Rights Watch said today. Jordanian authorities should immediately reverse measures that have...
Published on: July 21, 2025 | Source:US: Immigrants Abused in Florida Detention Sites
Click to expand Image 2025 John Holmes for Human Rights Watch Detainees in Florida immigration detention centers are being subjected to inhuman conditions, including denial of medical care, overcrowding, and degrading treatment. At least two recent deaths may have been linked to medical neglect.These are not isolated incidents, but rather the result of a fundamentally broken detention system that is rife with serious...
Published on: July 21, 2025 | Source:Angola: Police Use Excessive Force Against Peaceful Protesters
Click to expand Image Angola's Rapid Intervention Force during a protest against the rise in fuel prices and transport costs in Luanda, July 12, 2025. 2025 Julio Pacheco Ntela/AFP via Getty Images (Johannesburg) – Angolan police used excessive force and carried out arbitrary arrests while dispersing peaceful protesters in Luanda, the capital, on July 12, 2025, Human Rights Watch said today.Police unnecessarily fired...
Published on: July 18, 2025 | Source:What Does Gaza Solidarity Protest Look Like on Campuses Today?
In 2024, campus protests in solidarity with the people of Gaza were visible across the media—this year, less so. But while tactics have shifted, the movement continues.
Published on: July 17, 2025 | Source:A Disappointing Ruling in Italy with a Silver Lining
Click to expand Image The SOS MEDITERRANEE crew performs a rescue in the central Mediterranean, March 9, 2025. 2025 SOS MEDITERRANEE/ by Stefano Belacchi The Italian Constitutional Court’s recent ruling upholding a law that imposes sanctions on sea rescue groups casts a dark shadow over sea rescue, but that cloud has a silver lining: the court essentially said that the imperative to save lives justifies rescue ships...
Published on: July 17, 2025 | Source:Greece's Asylum Suspension Denies Rights, Puts Lives at Risk
Click to expand Image A Portuguese vessel in a Frontex operation in Lesbos, Greece, 2016. 2016 Frontex Greece hassuspended the ability for people coming by boat via North Africa to seek asylum –violating their rights, potentially putting their lives at risk and flouting its obligations under EU law.The measure approved by Parliament on July 11 for a period of three months, blocks people coming by boat via North Africa...
Published on: July 16, 2025 | Source:How Changing Mindsets Can Change the Economy
The ways funders and impact investors think about money often reinforces inequality, even when they seek to reduce it. Here are some ways to get out of this vicious circle.
Published on: July 16, 2025 | Source:How an International NGO Plans to Fight the Digital Divide with a Satellite Company
The Whitaker Peace and Development Initiative’s latest collaboration with a world-renowned satellite provider could help minimize the disparity in digital access seen in conflict-affected regions.
Published on: July 16, 2025 | Source:Anchoring Communities: How to Combat Displacement Through Asset Ownership
For many food justice organizations, ownership of spaces like markets, kitchens, and commercial food hubs is central to protecting communities from displacement.
Published on: July 16, 2025 | Source:Global: Caster Semenya’s Court Victory a Win for All Athletes
Click to expand Image South Africa's Caster Semenya (C), answers reporters with lawyers Gregory Nott (L) , and Shona Jolly KC after Semenya won a partial victory at the European Court of Human Rights on in her seven-year legal fight against track and field's sex eligibility rules Strasbourg, eastern France, July 10, 2025. 2025 Antonin Utz/AP Photo (New York) – In a landmark case for athletes’ rights, Caster Semenya,...
Published on: July 15, 2025 | Source:Summer Camp in a Climate-Changed World
From floods to droughts and heat waves, the climate crisis is changing summer camp. Can we still send our kids there?
Published on: July 15, 2025 | Source:Resisting Authoritarianism: How to Activate Civil Society’s Pillars of Support
Can authoritarianism be stopped? Five sectors (unions, businesses, faith institutions, professional associations, and security forces) play critical roles in answering that question.
Published on: July 15, 2025 | Source:Trust in Nonprofits Holds Strong Despite Political Attacks
Amid political polarization, public trust in nonprofits remains high, though concerns grow about government influence and wealthy donors’ motives.
Published on: July 15, 2025 | Source:IRS Weakens Johnson Amendment—Nonprofits Push Back
The IRS has signaled a shift allowing churches to endorse political candidates without losing tax-exempt status, sparking concerns among nonprofit leaders over politicization and dark-money infiltration.
Published on: July 15, 2025 | Source:Thailand: Authorities Abuse, Exploit Myanmar Nationals
Click to expand Image A Myanmar migrant worker at his apartment in Samut Sakhon province, Thailand, January 26, 2025. 2025 LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA/AFP via Getty Images Thai authorities are threatening, extorting, and detaining Myanmar nationals who have fled the abusive military junta to seek safety in Thailand.The only way most Myanmar nationals can get legal status is as a migrant worker, who are excluded from a recent...
Published on: July 14, 2025 | Source:Standing Firm on Women’s Right to Live Free of Violence
Click to expand Image Protesters march against gender-based violence in front of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, South Africa, September 13, 2019. 2019 Alet Pretorius/Gallo Images via Getty Images There’s no question about it--we are in the midst of a destructive global backlash against women’s rights.Against this regressive backdrop, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women...
Published on: July 14, 2025 | Source:Human Rights Cannot Be Sidelined in Australia-China Meetings
Click to expand Image Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese (L) with the President of the People's Republic of China, Xi Jinping, in Bali, Indonesia, November 15th, 2022. 2022 James Brickwood/Sydney Morning Herald via Getty Images On July 12, Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is traveling to Beijing for another “annual leaders’ meeting” with Chinese President Xi Jinping. They will discuss global and...
Published on: July 11, 2025 | Source:Cuba: Protesters Detail Abuses in Prison
A man is arrested during a demonstration against the government of President Miguel Diaz-Canel in Havana, Cuba, July 12, 2021. 2021 YAMIL LAGE/AFP via Getty Images Protesters detained for participating in the peaceful July 2021 protests in Cuba have been subject to serious abuses in prison, including beatings, solitary confinement, and lack of medical care.While some were released, they say they remain under constant...
Published on: July 11, 2025 | Source:US Terminates Protected Status for Afghans
Click to expand Image An Afghan woman walks among Taliban soldiers at a checkpoint in Kabul, Afghanistan, July 6, 2023. 2023 Ali Khara/Reuters The Trump administration’s termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Afghans in the United States will take effect on July 14, leaving over 11,000 Afghans in the US subject to immediate detention and deportation. A TPS designation allows people from certain countries...
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:US Imposes Sanctions on UN Special Rapporteur
Click to expand Image UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese during a press conference at the UN City in Copenhagen, Denmark, February 5, 2025. 2025 Ritzau Scanpix/Sipa USA via AP Photo On July 9, the US government imposed sanctions on UN Human Rights Council-appointed Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967...
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:Get Funds Flowing: Lessons from the Boston Foundation
In times of crisis, funders don’t have to sacrifice values to move quickly.
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:Amid Heatwaves, a Growing Concern Rises About Data Centers
As the temperature continues to rise across the country, there is growing attention being paid to how data centers are putting pressure on the electric grid and impacting communities that are already vulnerable.
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source: