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US Lobbying Groups Target EU Corporate Accountability Law
Click to expand Image Smoke rises from a plant in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley, October 18, 2023. 2023 Eli Reed for Human Rights Watch As Europe emerges from a devastating heat wave, the European Parliament should reject efforts, including by industry groups in the United States, to weaken the European Union’s flagship corporate accountability law and its measures to tackle climate change.The 2024 EU law, called the...
Published on: July 09, 2025 | Source:
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Mozambique Begins Hearing into Police’s role in Post-Election Violence and Killings
Click to expand Image Police fired tear gas during a nationwide strike called by Mozambique presidential candidate Venancio Mondlane to protest the provisional results of an October 9 election, in Maputo, Mozambique, October 21, 2024. 2024 Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters On July 7, the former commander-general of the Mozambican police, Bernardino Rafael, whom the Presidentdismissed in January 2025,appeared before the Office of...
Published on: July 09, 2025 | Source:Revised UK Social Security Bill Still Harms Rights
Click to expand Image Disability rights activists gather to protest against cuts to social security outside Downing Street, London, UK, March 26, 2025. 2025 Lab Ky Mo/SOPA Image/Shutterstock The United Kingdom government’sdraft law tocut spending on disability-related social security triggered major opposition from within the ruling party, forcing the government to roll back some of the legislation in order to win a...
Published on: July 09, 2025 | Source:How to Navigate the Modern Nonprofit Job Search
Nowadays, finding a job—let alone one in the nonprofit sector—can feel daunting. Despite the tumult in the sector, there are concrete, practical steps you can take to improve your chances of landing the job you want.
Published on: July 09, 2025 | Source:A Year On, Guinean Activists Still Missing
Click to expand Image A poster created by the opposition coalition, National Front for the Defense of the Constitution (Front National pour la Défense de la Constitution, FNDC) showing Mamadou Billo Bah (L) and Oumar Sylla, known as Foniké Mengué (R). 2024 National Front for the Defense of the Constitution (Nairobi) – Guinea’s military authorities should credibly investigate the disappearances of two political...
Published on: July 09, 2025 | Source:South Korea: Older Workers’ Low-Paid, Precarious Work
Click to expand Image A “recruitment bulletin board” at a job fair for older people in Suwon, near Seoul, South Korea, October 2019. 2019 YONHAP/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock South Korea’s age-based employment laws and policies discriminate against older workers, forcing them to retire from main jobs and into low-paid, precarious work.Inadequate social security compounds this loss of income, creating a system that punishes...
Published on: July 08, 2025 | Source:How Can the Nonprofit Field Better Support Volunteerism?
Failing to invest in their volunteers costs nonprofits resources and capacity. But nonprofit staff, nonprofit organizations, and foundations can change that.
Published on: July 08, 2025 | Source:UN Funding Crisis Threatens Work of Human Rights Council
Click to expand Image The Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, February 26, 2024. 2024 Hannes P Albert/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Photo Today, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC)expressed concern at the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights’ announcement thatcertain activities mandated by the council cannot be delivered due to a lack of funding. The council has sought clarity on why certain activities...
Published on: July 08, 2025 | Source:Return to Office: What’s Happening in the Nonprofit Sector and Why?
In 2020, millions of nonprofit jobs became remote overnight. Many nonprofits have since switched back, reversing many of the equity gains remote work had brought.
Published on: July 08, 2025 | Source:Peru: Congress Undermines Fight against Organized Crime
A demonstrator holds a sign which reads, "For our lives, we march today", as people attend a protest against crime and insecurity, in Lima, Peru March 21, 2025. 2025 REUTERS/Sebastian Castaneda Laws passed by Peru’s Congress have undermined the independence and capacity of judges and prosecutors to fight organized crime.Homicides, extortion, and illegal mining have exponentially grown in the last years, affecting the...
Published on: July 08, 2025 | Source:Latine Community Groups Mobilize to Defend Medicaid Against Cuts
The Republican budget bill passed last week cut Medicaid by over $1 trillion over 10 years. Latines are disproportionately affected—and they are fighting back.
Published on: July 07, 2025 | Source:272 Million Children out of School a Major Wake Up Call
Click to expand Image Children in a primary school in Northern England raise their hands in class. 2019 Danny Lawson PA Wire/PA Images Last week in Sevilla, Spain, governments gathered at the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development. Among key outcomes was theCompromiso de Sevilla, which receivedmixed feedback. It includes a pledge to “support adequate financing to ensure inclusive, equitable, and...
Published on: July 07, 2025 | Source:New York and Other States Move to Fix Nonprofit Contracting Delays
The current system of government contracts imposes unnecessary financial strain on cash-strapped organizations. Now, some state and local governments are attempting to fix how they fund the nonprofits they rely on for essential public services.
Published on: July 07, 2025 | Source:Inter-American Court Says Countries Must Prevent Climate Harms
Click to expand Image Residents look out at the Madeira River, a tributary of the Amazon River, amid a drought in Humaita, Brazil, September 7, 2024. 2024 Edmar Barros/AP Photo The Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued an opinion on July 3, 2025, that countries must protect the climate system as part of their human rights obligations under the American Convention on Human Rights and other human rights law. It...
Published on: July 07, 2025 | Source:Prominent Activist Remains Detained in Niger
On July 4, a court in Niger’s capital, Niamey, rejected an appeal filed by prominent human rights activist and government critic Moussa Tiangari. Held in detention since December 2024, the appeal was Tiangari’s third attempt to get the politically motivated case against him tossed out. Click to expand Image Moussa Tiangari, Niamey, Niger, June 2024. 2024 Amnesty International Tiangari, 55, is the secretary general of...
Published on: July 07, 2025 | Source:Ethiopian Doctor Arrested After Health Worker Strike
Click to expand Image An interior view of a hospital in the Amhara region, Ethiopia, December 14, 2021. 2021 Minasse Wondimu Hailu/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images On the afternoon of June 25, police in the regional capital of Ethiopia’sconflict-affected Amhara region arrested Dr. Daniel Fentaneh, a gynecologist and obstetric resident at Bahir Dar University Teaching Hospital, confiscating his phone and laptop.Daniel...
Published on: July 07, 2025 | Source:Vietnam: UN Rights Review Should Call for Urgent Reform
Click to expand Image United Nations European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, September 11, 2023. 2023 Denis Balibouse/Reuters (Geneva) – The upcoming review ofVietnam’s record on civil and political rights at the UN Human Rights Committee represents a key opportunity to press the government to end its crackdown on dissent and other basic rights, Human Rights Watch said in itssubmission to the Committee. The...
Published on: July 07, 2025 | Source:China: 10 Years Since ‘709 Crackdown,’ Lawyers Still Under Fire
Click to expand Image Protesters hold posters of imprisoned lawyer Wang Quanzhang during a demonstration at the China Liaison Office in Hong Kong against the crackdown on human rights lawyers in China, December 26, 2018. 2018 S.C. Leung/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The Chinese government is persecuting and silencing lawyers who challenge official abuses a decade after a major crackdown on lawyers defending...
Published on: July 06, 2025 | Source:UN Rights Council Rejects Bad-Faith Bid to End Eritrea Scrutiny
Click to expand Image A session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Geneva, Switzerland, February 26, 2024. 2024 Hannes P Albert/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Photo Today the UN Human Rights Council firmly rejected Eritrea’s attempt to end scrutiny of its human rights situation. Council members decisively voted down the Eritrean government’s resolution to end the mandate of the UN special rapporteur on the situation...
Published on: July 04, 2025 | Source:Central African Republic: Activists Arrested at Memorial Event
Click to expand Image Participants in the vigil in memory of the students who died in the explosion on June 25 at Barthélémy Boganda High School, on June 27, 2025, in Bangui, Central African Republic. 2025 Private (Nairobi) – Central African Republic authorities arrested activists holding a memorial event for students who died in a high school explosion, Human Rights Watch said today.On June 27, 2025, civil society...
Published on: July 04, 2025 | Source:What to the Immigrant Is the Fourth of July?
Independence Day has historically come with complicated feelings, particularly for marginalized people.
Published on: July 04, 2025 | Source:US: FIFA Cancels Anti-Bias Messaging for Club World Cup
Click to expand Image No Discrimination board during the FIFA Women's World Cup at the Sydney Football Stadium, Australia, July 30, 2023. 2023 Mark Metcalfe - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images (New York) – The global soccer governing bodyFIFA’s reported decision to cancel previously planned additional anti-racism and anti-discrimination messaging at Club World Cup venues in the United States signals a human rights risk for...
Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source:Azerbaijan Convicts Critics in Relentless Crackdown
Click to expand Image The Abzas Media team and Bahruz Samadov. Private On June 20, the Court of Grave Crimes in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku handed down severe prison sentences toa team of independent journalists from Abzas Media, an outlet known for its hard-hitting investigative journalism. Days later, the same court convictedBahruz Samadov, an outspoken government critic and peace activist. These verdicts fit apattern...
Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source:How Trump Weaponized the US Budget Bill Overseas
Click to expand Image Rally in opposition of a tax bill, in front of the US Capitol, Washington DC, November 30, 2017. 2017 Victoria Pickering/Flickr US headlines have been dominated by coverage of the many ways President Trump’s budget bill will gut healthcare programs and deepen economic inequality in the United States if it is passed into law. Somewhat lost amidst all that noise is the story of how the Trump...
Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source:FIFA Should Press US on Immigration Policies
Click to expand Image US President Donald Trump holds up an executive order alongside President of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Gianni Infantino in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, March 7, 2025. 2025 Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (Washington, DC) – FIFA, the world soccer governing body, should press the Trump administration to reverse immigration policies that create...
Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source:Decolonising Philanthropy: a new resource to transform the sector
In an age of collapsing funding and existential threats, philanthropists and civil society must act together to reimagine a better future for the sector. The post Decolonising Philanthropy: a new resource to transform the sector appeared first on Peace Direct.
Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source:On the Front Lines: How Campus Organizing Can Inform Movements Today
Students have long played important roles in social movements. Universities have once again proven to be movement testing grounds.
Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source:Seeking the Willing: A Friendship Across Political Lines
Two friends discuss how their relationship traverses different political ideologies. What can this insight teach us?
Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source:Farmers Are Finally Getting Critical USDA Web Pages Back
The USDA pulled critical web pages, leaving farmers in the dark. But a swift lawsuit, led by farming and environmental nonprofits, is getting that information back online.
Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source:EU Should Act Against El Salvador’s Dismantling of Democracy
Click to expand Image People arrested by police wait in zip tie handcuffs in the back of a truck to be transferred to a prison at the Police Delegation of San Bartolo in Soyapango, El Salvador, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022. AP Photo/Salvador Melendez In June, the European Union, for the first time, raised concerns about El Salvador’s deteriorating situation at the UN Human Rights Council. The European Parliament then held a...
Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source:Türkiye: Amicus Brief in Coal Plant Expansion Case
Click to expand Image Afşin-Elbistan Coal Power Plant A, Kahramanmaraş province, southeast Türkiye, May 2024. 2024 Human Rights Watch. (Istanbul, July 3, 2025) – Türkiye’s administrative court in the province of Kahramanmaraş should scrutinize whether the environmental impact assessment used to greenlight a coal power plant expansion there, adequately determined the harmful impact on environmental and health rights,...
Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source:UN Members Should Renew Expert on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity
Click to expand Image The United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, June 13, 2022. 2022 Valentin Flauraud/Keystone via AP Photo Next week, the United Nations Human Rights Council will vote on renewing the mandate of the independent expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. UN member states should support this resolution, which has...
Published on: July 03, 2025 | Source:Karakalpakstan Victims Await Justice Three Years On
Click to expand Image Security forces set up checkpoints after protests over proposed constitutional changes affecting status of autonomous region of Karakalpakstan's capital Nukus, Uzbekistan on July 06, 2022. Bahtiyar Abdulkerimov/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images There has been almost no accountability for the deaths and grave injuries that occurred three years ago when security forces in Uzbekistan used unjustified...
Published on: July 02, 2025 | Source:Unlawfully Detained in a Turkish Prison, Osman Kavala Still Stands up for Rights
Click to expand Image Osman Kavala and his wife Ayşe Buğra photographed during her visit to him in Silivri prison, Istanbul, January 2025. Private Osman Kavala, the respected Turkish human rights defender, has been behind bars in Istanbul’s Silivri high security jail for almost eight years. He is serving a life sentence without the chance of parole, having been convicted following a preposterous trial on baseless...
Published on: July 02, 2025 | Source:UN Experts Back Action on Bangladesh Enforced Disappearances
Click to expand Image Family members of victims of enforced disappearance allegedly committed by government agencies during the rule of the Awami League hold portraits of their relatives while asking for their return in front of the Shaheed Minar, Bangladesh, August 11, 2024. 2024 Sazzad Hossain/SOPA Images/Sipa USA via AP Photo Bangladesh’s interim government has taken some positive steps to address the terrible...
Published on: July 02, 2025 | Source: