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Bangladeshi Women’s Rights Opposed by Hardline Religious Groups
Click to expand Image A candlelight vigil marks International Women's Day in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on March 8, 2021. 2021 Rehman Asad/NurPhoto via AP Photo On Saturday,nearly 20,000 supporters of the Islamist organizationHefazat-e-Islam rallied in the streets of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, to protest, among other issues, proposed government reforms to support gender equality and women’s rights.The protesters, who...
Published on: May 05, 2025 | Source:
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Mali’s Return to Democracy Suffers New Blow
Click to expand Image People protesting the junta's decision to ban political parties at the Palais de la Culture in Bamako, Mali, April 29, 2025. 2025 Private In yet another blow to democracy in Mali, the country’s Council of Ministers on April 30, 2025, effectivelybanned all political parties. The previous day, a national conference organized by Mali’s military junta hadrecommended that Gen. Assimi Goïta remain as...
Published on: May 05, 2025 | Source:Cancer Research in the US Is World Class Because of Its Broad Base of Funding—with the Government Pulling Out, Its Future Is Uncertain
Without federal support, the lights will turn off in many labs across the country.
Published on: May 05, 2025 | Source:How Interior Design Can Improve Health Justice
Interior design can be a powerful tool for health justice when it centers BIPOC values, thus creating spaces that feel safe, welcoming, and culturally affirming.
Published on: May 05, 2025 | Source:Hong Kong: Targeting of Exiled Activists’ Families Escalates
Click to expand Image Anna Kwok at a candlelight vigil marking the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre on June 3, 2024 in Washington, DC. 2024 Alex Wong/Getty Images (Taipei)– TheHong Kong police arrested the father of a prominent US-based activist, Anna Kwok, on April 30, 2025, and charged him with a national security crime, Human Rights Watch said today. The arrest of Kwok Yin-sang was the first such...
Published on: May 05, 2025 | Source:Malaysia: Wood Products Tainted by Abuse, Deforestation
Click to expand Image Matek Geram, a geospatial expert for the Sarawak Dayak Iban Association (SADIA) which supports Indigenous communities to map their ancestral territories and defend their land claims, walks through the rainforest in central Sarawak, Malaysia, September 8, 2024. 2024 Luciana Téllez-Chávez/Human Rights Watch Malaysia’s Sarawak state has failed to protect an Indigenous community from a company that...
Published on: May 04, 2025 | Source:Endowments Aren’t Blank Checks—but Universities Can Rely on Them More Heavily in Turbulent Times
A nonprofit legal scholar lays out the opportunities and limitations of higher education endowments.
Published on: May 02, 2025 | Source:Women’s Participation Has Proven Worth in Bringing Peace
Click to expand Image Bineta Diop from the African Union Special Envoy on Women and Peace and Security briefs the Security Council in New York, October 20, 2022. 2022 Rick Bajornas/UN Photo At least, we thought ruefully, the women, peace, and security agenda—backed in the United States by the first Trump administration—is safe. We thought this could remain true even amidst the current Trump administration’s assault on...
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:Progress on Addressing Violence against Women in Africa
Click to expand Image People demonstrate against rising cases of violence against women during International Human Rights Day, Nakuru, Kenya, December 10, 2024. 2024 James Wakibia/SOPA Images/(Sipa via AP Photo On May 2, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights’ (ACHPR) is scheduled to meet for its first public session since the African Union adopted the Convention on Ending Violence Against Women and Girls...
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:Saving AmeriCorps: What’s at Stake and Why We Must Act Now
AmeriCorps, the leading national program for community service and a critical resource for many nonprofits, faces massive cuts. Advocates are marshaling support in its defense.
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:UN Rights Review of Laos Spotlights Lack of Progress
Click to expand Image The United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, June 13, 2022. 2022 Valentin Flauraud/Keystone via AP Photo A United Nations review of Laos’ human rights record showed little progress since the last review about five years ago.In its fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on April 29, Laos received 271 recommendations from other countries, most of which echoed those of past...
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:Street Vendors Are Workers – They Should Have Workers’ Rights
Click to expand Image Street vendor arranges oranges at her stall in a women-led street market in Diyarbakir, Turkey December 22, 2021. REUTERS/Sertac Kayar From a hot dog vendor in the United States to a girl selling vegetables in the Democratic Republic of Congo to a woman running a tea stall in Bangladesh, street vendors are an integral part of the urban fabric around the world.They boost local economies, supplying...
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:Stand With Civil Society – Sign the open letter
As funding for global civil society shrinks, we're urging funders and policymakers to #StandWithCivilSociety The post Stand With Civil Society – Sign the open letter appeared first on Peace Direct.
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:Sudanese peacebuilders share their calls for peace
As Sudan enters the third year of war, local peacebuilders continue to raise their voices offering critical analysis, frontline response, and concrete solutions. Yet their calls remain unanswered. The post Sudanese peacebuilders share their calls for peace appeared first on Peace Direct.
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:New Field Study Highlights the Need for Resources for Black Literary Organizations
A recently released field study shines light on the need for resources for Black literary organizations.
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:US Colleges and Universities Have Billions Stashed Away in Endowments—a Higher Ed Finance Expert Explains What They Are
An expert in higher education finance explains college and university endowments.
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:US: Repeal Alien Enemies Act
Click to expand Image Demonstrators in New York City protest outside the Permanent Mission of El Salvador to the United Nations on April 24, 2025, demanding the release of Venezuelan detainees deported by the Trump administration and jailed in El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center or CECOT prison. 2025 Sipa via AP Images The Trump administration is the first in US history to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798...
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:For ‘Bread, Work, Freedom,’ Afghan Women Are Still Resisting
Click to expand Image Afghan women work in a sewing workshop in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 6, 2023. 2023 Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo It has been over three and a half years since Afghan women from all walks of life first took to the streets chanting “Bread, Work, Freedom,” a fierce assertion of their right to work and to be free from the Taliban’s systemic oppression. This International Workers’ Day, their call is more...
Published on: May 01, 2025 | Source:Türkiye: Don’t Deport Turkmen Activists
Click to expand Image Caption: Turkmen activists Alisher Sakhatov (left) and Abdulla Orusov (right). 2025 THF (Berlin, April 30, 2025) –Turkish migration authorities should immediately suspend any plans to deport two detained Turkmen activists toTurkmenistan, Human Rights Watch said today. If deported they would be at grave risk of torture and arbitrary imprisonment.On the morning of April 28, 2025, migration...
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Deadly Attack on Tourists in Jammu and Kashmir
Click to expand Image Kashmiri boatmen protest the deadly militant attack on tourists at a famous tourist resort Pahalgam, Srinagar, India. April 24, 2025. 2025 Saqib Majeed/SOPA Images via AP Photo The April 22 attack by gunmen that killed 26 people, mostly Hindu tourists, in the town of Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir state has heightenedtensions between India and Pakistan. The Indian authorities say the assailants...
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Trinidad and Tobago Nationals Remain Stranded in Northeast Syria
Click to expand Image A Trinidadian boy, then 16, looks out a window in the Houry detention center in northeast Syria on June 18, 2019. He was one of eight family members brought to Syria by his stepfather in 2014. 2019 Sam Tarling Trinidad and Tobago’s newly elected prime minister, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, should act quickly to repatriate more than 90 of the country’s nationals, including at least 50 children, who...
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Advocates Respond to Civil Rights Rollback at National Conference
At a gathering of 1,300 racial and economic justice advocates in Washington, DC, participants sought to build a stronger movement amid a hostile political environment.
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:The Long List of Trump’s Harmful Reproductive Rights Restrictions
Click to expand Image Abortion rights demonstrators outside the US Supreme Court as oral arguments are delivered in the case of Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic in Washington DC, April 2, 2025. 2025 Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images A report compiling harmful actions taken by US President Donald Trump against reproductive rights was released today by the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), a legal...
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Organizing for the Long Haul: How to Build a Network for Land and Liberation
Even as movement groups face multiple defensive battles, the People’s Network for Land & Liberation offers an expansive vision of how to win a new world.
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Venezuela: Brutal Crackdown Since 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 Venezuelan authorities and pro-government armed groups have committed widespread abuses since the July 28, 2024 presidential elections that officials said Nicolás Maduro had won,...
Published on: April 30, 2025 | Source:Guatemala: Indigenous Leaders Face Terrorism Charges
Click to expand Image Guatemalan Deputy Minister of Sustainable Development Luis Pacheco arrives at the court after being arrested on charges of terrorism and other crimes in Guatemala City on April 23, 2025. 2025 JOHAN ORDONEZ/AFP via Getty Images (Washington, DC) –Guatemala’s Attorney General’s Office has detained two Indigenous leaders on spurious terrorism charges tied to their participation in peaceful protests,...
Published on: April 29, 2025 | Source:Azerbaijan Uses Old Criminal Case to Ramp Up Repression
Click to expand Image Police outside the building of Toplum TV, independent online media outlet, where law enforcement searched the offices and detained journalists, in Baku, Azerbaijan, March 6, 2024. 2024 Aziz Karimov/Getty Images In an effort to annihilate independent activism, Azerbaijani authorities have reopened a 2014 criminal investigation that led to the country’s most sweeping crackdown on human rights...
Published on: April 29, 2025 | Source:Another ‘Bridge Man’ in China Forcibly Disappeared
On April 15, 27-year-old Mei Shilin (梅世林) put up threebanners on an overpass outside Chengdu’s Chadianzi Metro Station in China’s southwestern Sichuan province. The banners stated: “There can be no national rejuvenation without political system reform”; “The people do not need a political party with unrestrained power”; and “China does not need anyone to show the way, democracy is the direction.” The authorities...
Published on: April 29, 2025 | Source:Yemen: US Strike Reportedly Kills, Injures Dozens of Migrants
(Beirut) –US forces struck a migrant detention center in Saada,Yemen, on April 28, 2025, reportedly killing over 68 civilians and injuring dozens more. Human Rights Watch verified avideo posted by the Houthi-run news channel, Al-Masirah, alsoverified by the newswire service Reuters, that showed migrants and asylum seekers dead and injured in the aftermath of the strike. Those killed and injured were reportedly all of...
Published on: April 29, 2025 | Source:Why Fashion Education Needs to Care About Climate Change
Students are deeply concerned with issues of climate change, but in fashion schools, those concerns aren’t being addressed.
Published on: April 29, 2025 | Source:How Nonprofits Manage MacKenzie Scott’s Mega-Gifts: What the Data Tell Us
MacKenzie Scott has delivered $19 billion in unrestricted grants to nonprofits since 2020. A new study allays fears that the large grants—with a median amount of $5 million—will lead nonprofits to adopt unsustainable spending patterns.
Published on: April 29, 2025 | Source:US: Human Rights Role in Foreign Policy at Risk
Click to expand Image US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks after being sworn in by Vice President JD Vance near the White House in Washington, DC, January 21, 2025. 2025 AP Photo/Evan Vucci (Washington, DC) – The Trump administration’s new US State Department structure may further hamstring rights and justice-related work, with programming already decimated by foreign aid cuts, Human Rights Watch said today. The...
Published on: April 29, 2025 | Source:Israel must end its unlawful presence in the occupied Palestinian territory
Peace Direct has signed on to a joint statement led by Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), joining several other humanitarian, human rights, and peacebuilding organisations in calling for urgent action to end the ongoing genocide in Gaza. The post Israel must end its unlawful presence in the occupied Palestinian territory appeared first on Peace Direct.
Published on: April 29, 2025 | Source:When Academic Freedom Falls, Civil Society Is Next
Universities are raising the alarm about what they see as a campaign by the Trump administration to assert political control over higher education. Advocates for nonprofit and academic freedom have pointed out these actions could serve as a precursor to using the same tactics against other nonprofit organizations.
Published on: April 29, 2025 | Source:Jordan: Informal Camp Residents Displaced
Click to expand Image Amman, Jordan, February 11, 2024. 2024 Alexis Jumeau/Abaca/Sipa via AP Photo (Amman) –Jordanian authorities have forcibly evicted and demolished homes and shops in an informal Palestinian refugee camp in Amman without adequate consultation, notice, compensation process, relocation assistance, or means of redress as part of a road expansion project, Human Rights Watch said today. More families are...
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