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#Peace & Community #European #Middle East #Asia #UN #North America #Oceanian #AfricanWhat Is a Just Transition and How Can We Pursue It?
What do movements need today? One clear need is vision. To this end, advocates of a “just transition” were asked to define the term and offer some paths forward.
Published on: September 22, 2025 | Source:
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Egypt: Presidential Pardon for Activist Alaa Abdel Fattah
Click to expand Image Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah greets people prior to a conference held at the American University in Cairo, near Tahrir Square, Egypt, September 22, 2014. 2014 AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File (Beirut) – Egyptian media reported on September 22, 2025, that President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi had issued a presidentialpardon for the imprisoned Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel Fattah. Abdel...
Published on: September 22, 2025 | Source:Florida Officials Say They Want to Eliminate School Vaccine Mandates. It Won’t Be That Simple.
Many of the reversals will require action from lawmakers. Public health experts and educators warn that dropped mandates could worsen disease outbreaks and add to a teacher shortage.
Published on: September 22, 2025 | Source:New Industry Requirements Could Disrupt Abusive Armed Groups’ Trade in Gold
Click to expand Image A gold miner carries a sack of rocks to a grinding mill at a mine in El Callao, Bolivar state, Venezuela, April 29, 2023. 2023 Matias Delacroix Deep in the forest in Venezuela’s Bolivar state, residents live in fear of horrific violence at the hands of armed groups involved in the illicit gold trade. During a 2020 investigation, a 17-year-old boytold Human Rights Watch how he witnessed members of...
Published on: September 22, 2025 | Source:Ethiopia: Surge in Arrests of Journalists, Media Workers
Click to expand Image Local newspapers at a street stall in downtown Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, November 3, 2021. 2021 Eduardo Soteras (Nairobi) – Ethiopian security forces have arbitrarily arrested several journalists and media professionals since August 2025, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should end their harassment of independent journalists and immediately release all those detained for exercising...
Published on: September 22, 2025 | Source:Venezuela: Political Prisoners Cut Off from the World
Click to expand Image Activists and relatives of prisoners release balloons calling for the freedom of political prisoners, in Caracas, Venezuela, April 14, 2025. 2025 AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos Dozens of political prisoners in Venezuela have been held incommunicado for weeks, months, and some for over a year.The lack of communication and denial of visits has become a form of torture, inflicting suffering not only on...
Published on: September 22, 2025 | Source:US Judge Blocks Expulsion of Guatemalan Children
Click to expand Image Deported children, along with their parents, sit in a migration office after being processed by staff of the Guatemalan Immigration Institute after arriving on deportation flights from the United States and Mexico, in Guatemala City, Guatemala, January 23, 2024. 2024 Cristina Chiquin/Reuters On September 18, a federal judge in Washington, DC issued apreliminary injunction blocking the removal of...
Published on: September 19, 2025 | Source:Protection of Athletes Advances in Japan
Click to expand Image Japanese high jumper Tomohiro Shinno participates in the 60th Palio Citta della Quercia, in Rovereto, Italy, September 3, 2024. 2024 Roberto Tommasini/NurPhoto via AP Photo The Japan Association of Athletics Federations (JAAF) issued a Human Rights Policy and an Integrity Code of Conduct on August 26, 2025, ahead of the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, which opened on September...
Published on: September 19, 2025 | Source:Federal Funding for Public Media Is Gone. What Now?
A $1.1 billion federal funding cut to public media threatens local journalism, especially in rural areas, prompting calls for philanthropic support and innovative funding solutions.
Published on: September 19, 2025 | Source:This Summer, Parents Stitched Together Child Care to Give Their Kids a ‘Space for Black Joy’
Amid rising camp costs and limited options, parents built their own patchwork of child care plans with relatives, community programs and Black-led camps.
Published on: September 19, 2025 | Source:Immigration Detention Ends in Provincial Jails Across Canada
Click to expand Image 2024 Human Rights Watch In a major victory for migrant and refugee rights, on September 14, Ontario became the last province in Canada to block the Canada Border Services Agency from using provincial jails to incarcerate migrants and asylum seekers on administrative grounds. The border agency said that “as of September 15, there are no people detained in a provincial correctional facility.”...
Published on: September 19, 2025 | Source:Kyrgyzstan: Media Workers Sentenced to Prison in Flawed Trial
Click to expand Image Kloop Media sign in the office of Kloop Media Public Foundation. 2025 RFE/RL (Bishkek) – AKyrgyz court onSeptember 17, 2025, convicted two former media workers on charges of “public calls for mass unrest”, Human Rights Watch said today. Joomart Duulatov and Aleksandr Aleksandrov, from the independent investigative outlet Kloop, were each sentenced to five years in prison. Two of Kloop’s...
Published on: September 19, 2025 | Source:EU’s New India Strategy Overlooks Modi’s Repression
Click to expand Image EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (center left) and the College of European Commissioners with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other Indian officials in New Delhi, February 27, 2025. 2025 EU Commission The European Union unveiled its “New Strategic EU-India Agenda” this week, setting out a range of areas for closer bilateral cooperation. The document hails India as the “world’s...
Published on: September 19, 2025 | Source:New Research Details Hidden Health Risks of Methane Emissions
Click to expand Image A methane emissions event in Bakersfield, California, captured by the Methane Risk Map. 2025 PSE/Broomfield Newly publishedresearch from PSE Healthy Energy, a US-based nonprofit research organization, highlights the hidden dangers of methane leaks, an often overlooked but serious threat to both theclimate andpublic health.Methane leaks have become a key political issue between the United States...
Published on: September 18, 2025 | Source:As Schools Become a Political Battleground, Student Performance Continues to Plunge
Schools across the United States are depleted and disconcerted heading into this academic year, following a chaotic summer riddled with financial uncertainty.
Published on: September 18, 2025 | Source:We Stood Up: Organizing at a Feminist Nonprofit
When it comes to the workplace, many nonprofits fall far short of their political ideals. At my feminist nonprofit, we stood up to demand change.
Published on: September 18, 2025 | Source:International Nonprofits After USAID: A View from the Global South
As the immediate shock of the shutdown of USAID subsides, activists in the Global South consider how to leverage the withdrawal of USAID to democratize global nonprofits.
Published on: September 18, 2025 | Source:UK: Ombudsman Finds Flaws in Windrush Compensation Scheme
Click to expand Image Thomas Tobierre, 69, who applied to the Home Office’s Windrush Compensation Scheme as a primary applicant, says he realized that the scheme was set up to deny claimants their right to an effective remedy. 2023 Ellie Kealey for Human Rights Watch In response to a Windrush family’s complaint, the British Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman has found serious problems with the Home Office’s...
Published on: September 18, 2025 | Source:El Salvador: Baseless Charges Against Rights Defenders
Alejandro Henríquez, left, and José Ángel Pérez, right, speak with their lawyers before their first court hearing in Santa Tecla, El Salvador, May 30, 2025. 2025 AP Photo/Salvador Melendez (Washington, DC) – Police in El Salvador arbitrarily arrested two human rights defenders who were peacefully protesting a mass eviction and have been holding them in pretrial detention since the end of May 2025, Human Rights Watch...
Published on: September 18, 2025 | Source:US: Maritime Strikes Amount to Extrajudicial Killings
Click to expand Image A combination image shows two screen captures from a footage posted on the X account of The White House on September 15, 2025, of what US President Donald Trump said was a military strike on a Venezuelan drug cartel vessel, the second such strike carried out against an alleged drug boat in recent weeks. 2025 The White House/Handout via Reuters (Washington, DC, September 18, 2025) –United States...
Published on: September 18, 2025 | Source:Brazil Passes Landmark Law to Protect Children Online
Click to expand Image The Brazilian Senate in Brasilia, February 1, 2021. 2021 Sergio Lima/AFP via Getty Images (São Paulo) – Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on September 17, 2025, signed the country’s first law to protect children’s rights online, Human Rights Watch said today.The law, called the ECA Digital after its Portuguese initials, is intended to update the country’s 1990 Statute of the Child and...
Published on: September 17, 2025 | Source:Russian Strike Kills Dozens of Older People in Ukraine
Click to expand Image Policemen and medics help move people from an armored car to an ambulance in the village of Yarova, Donetska region. On September 9, 2025, Yarova was hit by a Russian aerial strike, which killed dozens of civilians. 2025 Alex Babenko/AP Photo A Russianairstrike on the village of Yarova in Ukraine’s Donetska region on the afternoon of September 9 occurred as a group of older people were waiting to...
Published on: September 17, 2025 | Source:Freedom Dreams and Care: A New Vision for Black Male Leadership
A new vision for Black men as leaders requires interrogating how Black men can dismantle internalized patriarchy. This is important for nonprofits—and beyond.
Published on: September 17, 2025 | Source:Taliban Deny Afghan Girls’ Their Education and Future
Click to expand Image Afghan girls attend a class after their school reopened in Kabul on March 23, 2022. Hours later, the Taliban ordered girls' secondary schools shut. 2022 Ahmad Sahel Arman/AFP via Getty Images September 17 marks four years since the Taliban banned secondary education for girls in Afghanistan. It is a devastating anniversary that should make everyone angry– furious even. The ban is cruel, harmful,...
Published on: September 17, 2025 | Source:Protecting Classrooms: What Nonprofits Need to Know About ICE in Schools
As ICE enters schools under the guise of “wellness checks,” Laura Vazquez from UnidosUS discusses how nonprofits can fight back and support immigrant communities.
Published on: September 17, 2025 | Source:Syria: Israel Forcibly Displaces Villagers in Occupied South
Click to expand Image Israeli soldiers patrol in the Syrian village of Jubata al-Khashab, December 20, 2024. 2024 Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty Images Israeli forces occupying parts of southern Syria since December 2024 have carried out a range of abuses against residents, including forced displacement, which is a war crime.Other abuses include homes seizures and demolitions, denial of access to livelihoods and unlawful...
Published on: September 17, 2025 | Source:UN: World Leaders Should Commit to Human Rights, International Justice
Click to expand Image The United Nations General Assembly Hall in New York City, New York, US, April 21, 2025. 2025 UN Photo/Loey Felipe (New York) – World leaders gathering at theUnited Nations General Assembly from September 22-30 should commit to protecting the UN from powerful governments seeking to defund and undermine the organization’s capacity to promote human rights and international justice, Human Rights...
Published on: September 17, 2025 | Source:The Patterns That Limit Organizations—and What Nonprofit Leaders Can Do About It
Our conditioned patterns replicate themselves in our workplace cultures and strategic decision-making approaches—and can significantly limit impact. Organizations should take intentional, concrete steps to heal these patterns.
Published on: September 16, 2025 | Source:Foundations and Movements: Manuel Pastor in Conversation with Carmen Rojas
In a wide-ranging and personal conversation, scholar-activist Manuel Pastor and foundation president Carmen Rojas discuss how to respond effectively to rising authoritarianism.
Published on: September 16, 2025 | Source:Voter Registration Faces Threats Nonprofits Can’t Ignore
Political leaders are gutting nonpartisan voter registration programs. The changes threaten nonprofits’ ability to provide support to underrepresented groups, leaving them without a voice in elections that shape their lives.
Published on: September 16, 2025 | Source:Lebanon: Ensure Draft Media Law Upholds Free Expression
Click to expand Image Newspapers displayed at a kiosk in Beirut, Lebanon, March 23, 2016. 2016 Joseph Eid/AFP via Getty Images (Beirut) – Lebanon’s parliament should ensure that a draft media law it is considering upholds the right to freedom of expression, 14 Lebanese and international rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch, said today.This includes decriminalizing defamation, blasphemy, insult, and...
Published on: September 16, 2025 | Source:Qatar: Quash Baseless Conviction against Baha’i Dignitary
Click to expand Image Remy Rowhani Private. (Beirut) – Qatari authorities should set aside the baseless conviction of Remy Rowhani, the chair of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is in Qatar, and reject the prosecution’s attempt to increase his sentence, Human Rights Watch said today. Qatari authorities should immediately and unconditionally release him.A Doha court sentenced Rowhani, 71, to five years in...
Published on: September 16, 2025 | Source:North Korea: ‘Lost Decade’ of Rights Abuses
Click to expand Image A North Korean soldier on a watch tower on the edge of the demilitarized zone dividing North Korea and South Korea, June 12, 2025. 2025 Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images (New York) – A new United Nationsreport finds that theNorth Korean government has increased the use of surveillance, forced labor, and severe punishments over the past decade, maintaining “total control” over its population,...
Published on: September 16, 2025 | Source:Greece’s Latest Assault on Civil Society
Click to expand Image A group of newly-arrived migrants board a ferry in Souda, on the island of Crete, Greece, July 11, 2025. 2025 Nicolas Economou/Reuters Greece’s Migration Minister Thanos Plevris recently announced his intention to adopt new measures to silence criticism of the government’s migration policies. The move, which came in the wake of a victory by civil society groups at the European Court of Human...
Published on: September 16, 2025 | Source:Iran: Impunity Reigns 3 Years After Crackdown on Protests
Click to expand Image Iranians protests the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was detained by the morality police, in Tehran, October 1, 2022. 2022 AP Photo/Middle East Images (Beirut) – Iran’s authorities have failed to conduct effective, impartial, and independent investigations into serious human rights violations and crimes under international law during and since the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom protests,...
Published on: September 16, 2025 | Source: