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Click to expand Image The UN General Assembly Hall, New York, September 24, 2024. 2024 Michael Kappeler/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Photo Over the past two weeks, United Nations member countries started substantive negotiations for the first-ever UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation; a historic process that reflects major shifts in global economic policymaking and geopolitics. The treaty couldreplace...
Published on: August 20, 2025 | Source:
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Kazakhstan Tries to Shoot the Messenger
On August 17, police in Kazakhstandetained veteran human rights defender Bakhytzhan Toregozhina and held her for several hours apparently in connection to a criminal investigation on charges of participating in a banned extremist organization. She was picked up following social media posts she had made in support of Marat Zhylanbaev, an opposition activist who has been in prison onpolitically motivated charges since...
Published on: August 20, 2025 | Source:Sri Lanka: Police Target Families of ‘Disappeared’
Click to expand Image Tamils perform rituals in memory of their deceased family members on the strip of land in Mullivaikkal where civilians were trapped in 2009 during the final weeks of the civil war in Sri Lanka, May 17, 2024. 2024 Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo (Geneva)–Sri Lankan security forces still harass families of victims of forced disappearances and misuse the country’s draconian counterterrorism law a year...
Published on: August 20, 2025 | Source:Dear Feminist Funders: It’s Time to Build a Bigger Bench
Feminist leadership is often navigating multiple intersecting crisis. How can funders better recognize and support this work?
Published on: August 20, 2025 | Source:Ukraine’s Suffering Reflected in One Family’s Story
Click to expand Image Tetiana and Petro Litvin. Nataliia Litvin On August 15, while United States President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin wereen route to their Alaskameeting, 26-year-old Nataliia Makarenko buried her mother, Tetiana Litvin, 60, in Kherson, southern Ukraine. Tetiana had died two days earlier in an artillery strike.Almost a year ago, Nataliia buried her father, Petro, 67. A Russian...
Published on: August 20, 2025 | Source:Ecuador: Officials Ignore Rainforest Protection Referendum
Click to expand Image The Tiputini Processing Center of state-owned Petroecuador in Yasuni National Park, northeastern Ecuador, June 21, 2023. 2023 by Rodrigo Buendia/AFP via Getty Images (New York) – Ecuador’s government should expedite the closure of the approximately 240 oil wells operating in the heart of Yasuni National Park in the Amazon rainforest, Human Rights Watch said today.On August 20, 2023, the...
Published on: August 20, 2025 | Source:DR Congo: M23 Mass Killings Near Virunga National Park
Click to expand Image An aerial photograph of the Rutshuru River, which flows through the Virunga National Park, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, April 1, 2022. 2022 ALEXIS HUGUET/AFP via Getty Images The Rwandan-controlled M23 armed group summarily executed over 140 civilians in July 2025, largely ethnic Hutu, in at least 14 villages and small farming communities in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.The...
Published on: August 20, 2025 | Source:Brazil: Protect Small-Scale Farmers’ Land Rights in the Amazon
Click to expand Image Trucks carrying illegally harvested logs exit the Terra Nossa settlement, September 30, 2019. 2019 Fernando Martinho/Repórter Brasil (São Paulo) –Brazil’s agrarian federal agency should reject a proposal to downsize a sustainable settlement in a deforested area of the Amazon region, Human Rights Watch said today. If approved, the reduction would open the door to legitimizing illegal land...
Published on: August 19, 2025 | Source:US-Nigeria Weapons Sale Requires Rights Safeguards
Click to expand Image Nigerian army patrols along the Kaduna Birnin Gwari area, March 8, 2024. 2024 Sunday Alabama/AP Photo The US State Department approved another potential multi-million-dollar weapons sale to Nigeria on August 14, citing support for the country’s efforts to fight terrorism and illicit trafficking. Yet the announcement is conspicuously silent on the Nigerian military’s record of serious human rights...
Published on: August 19, 2025 | Source:The Summer of Storms: What Texas and New York’s Flash Floods Can Teach Us
Flash flooding has become a regular occurrence in the New York City metro area and in Texas. How can both places get smarter about climate preparedness?
Published on: August 19, 2025 | Source:Standing with Sex Workers: Why This Case Matters
Click to expand Image Sex workers and supporters attend a march calling for decriminalization of sex work in Johannesburg, South Africa, May 27, 2021. 2021 GUILLEM SARTORIO/AFP via Getty Images At the beginning of September, South Africa’s Western Cape High Court will hear a case that could finally end the criminalization of sex work in the country. It’s a moment decades in the making, which could bring real gains for...
Published on: August 19, 2025 | Source:Australian Foreign Minister’s Vietnam Trip Should Promote Rights
Click to expand Image Australia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong (R) greets Vietnam's Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son (L) during the 50th ASEAN-Australia Special Summit in Melbourne on March 5, 2024. 2024 William West/AFP via Getty Images This week, Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong will travel to Vietnam to meet her counterpart, Bui Thanh Son. Australia’s relationship with Vietnam is important given Vietnam’s...
Published on: August 18, 2025 | Source:From Precarity to Promise: How Public Policy Can Reverse the Wealth Gap
US wealth inequality is getting worse. Reversing this requires two things: identifying policies that help people without wealth build wealth and making those policies law.
Published on: August 18, 2025 | Source:US: Excessive Force Against LA Protesters
Click to expand Image Los Angeles Police Department officers shoot kinetic impact projectiles at protesters outside City Hall in Los Angeles, California, on June 8, 2025. 2025 Apu Gomes/Getty Images Law enforcement officers responded to protests against immigration raids in and around Los Angeles between June 6 and 14 with excessiveforce and deliberate brutality.Local, state, and federal law enforcement’s aggressive...
Published on: August 18, 2025 | Source:Senegal: Families Internally Displaced by Floods in Limbo
Click to expand Image Fisherfolk working in Saint-Louis, located about 250 kilometers north of Senegal's capital, Dakar, on January 8, 2025. 2025 Andres Gutierrez/Anadolu via Getty Images For nine years, in Khar Yalla, authorities have effectively abandoned Senegalese families internally displaced from the Langue de Barbarie peninsula by coastal floods, violating their rights to an adequate standard of living,...
Published on: August 18, 2025 | Source:Sri Lanka: UN Rights Report Details Security Force Abuses
Click to expand Image United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk holds a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 26, 2025. 2025 Krishan Kariyawasam/NurPhoto via AP Photo (Geneva) – TheUnited Nations Human Rights office’sreport on Sri Lanka details entrenched and systemic rights violations—including arbitrary detention, torture, and deaths in custody—under President Anura Kumara Dissanayake,...
Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source:Qatar: Five-Year Sentence for Baha’i Dignitary on Abusive Charges
Click to expand Image Remy Rowhani Private. (Beirut) – A Doha court sentenced the chair of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is inQatar to five years in prison on August 13, 2025, based solely on exercising his rights to freedom of speech and religion, the Baha’i International Community and Human Rights Watch said today. Qatari authorities should urgently quash the conviction and release him.Qatari...
Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source:Lebanon: Judicial Reforms Positive, But Fall Short
Click to expand Image Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and members of the Lebanese government attend a parliament session in Beirut, July 15, 2025. 2025 Emilie Madi/Reuters (Beirut) – A law that Lebanon’s parliament adopted on July 31, 2025, includes positive reforms for Lebanon’s judiciary but falls short of guaranteeing judicial independence, Human Rights Watch said today.The law includes some advances in...
Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source:Kyrgyzstan: Rights Defender on Trial After Publishing Activist’s Letter
Click to expand Image Rita Karasartova. Private (Bishkek) – The trial of aKyrgyz human rights defender who published a letter from a political activist on her Facebook page is scheduled to start on August 15, 2025, Human Rights Watch said today. Rita Karasartova is charged with organizing mass riots under article 278 of the criminal code and publicly calling for the violent seizure of power under article 327, facing a...
Published on: August 14, 2025 | Source:We the People: Why a US Multiracial Democracy Depends on Black Institutions
The message is not new, but it remains vital to keep in our sights: if the United States is to ever build a truly multiracial democracy, Black institutions must play a central role.
Published on: August 14, 2025 | Source:What Do You Do When Your Nonprofit Staff Want Raises We Can’t Afford?
In this issue of Ask a Nonprofit Expert, NPQ’s interim CEO and editor-in-chief, Sara Hudson answers reader questions about juggling nonprofit staff wellbeing and organization finances
Published on: August 14, 2025 | Source:Iran: Detainees Ill-Treated and Disappeared After Israeli Evin Prison Attack
Click to expand Image A room in Evin prison’s medical clinic showing significant damage after the June 23 Israeli strikes, raising healthcare concerns for the hundreds of prisoners whom authorities returned to Evin on August 8. Photo taken on July 1, 2025. 2025 Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via AP Iranian authorities subjected detainees held in Evin prison, including arbitrarily detained human rights defenders and...
Published on: August 14, 2025 | Source:Iran: Israeli Attack on Evin Prison an Apparent War Crime
Click to expand Image An external view of the destruction of buildings in Evin prison's northern premises after the Israeli strikes on June 23, 2025 in Tehran, Iran. Photo taken on July 1, 2025. 2025 Majid Saeedi/Getty Images Israeli forces unlawfully attacked Evin prison in Tehran on June 23, 2025, absent any evident military target, killing and injuring scores of civilians including prisoners, their family members,...
Published on: August 14, 2025 | Source:Peru: Amnesty Bill Signed into Law
President Dina Boluarte during an ordinary session of the National Council for Citizen Security in Lima, Peru, on March 18, 2025. 2025 Presidencia del Perú (Washington DC) –Peruvian President Dina Boluarte has signed into law an amnestybill that grants impunity for serious crimes committed during the country’s internal armed conflict, Human Rights Watch said today.Peru’s Congress passed thelaw on July 9, 2025, and...
Published on: August 13, 2025 | Source:Staff Picks for 2025 (So Far): Alison Stine
How can we as a nation reassess, renew ourselves, and stay ready? Here are Alison Stine's staff picks for 2025.
Published on: August 13, 2025 | Source:Class Not Dismissed: Mamdani, Nonprofits, and the Fight for Economic Justice
If there is any bright spot in the Trump administration’s dog days, it’s that nonprofits are reigniting their struggle for economic justice.
Published on: August 13, 2025 | Source:The Long Reach of Trump’s Climate Agenda
While much attention has focused on the immediate damage of the Trump administration on climate, what’s the long-term judicial reach—and how can the next generation fight back?
Published on: August 13, 2025 | Source:Study Finds Widespread Self-Censorship in the Philanthropic Sector
A recent study reveals that major US foundations have remained silent or scrubbed DEI content from their websites in response to the Trump administration’s crackdown on “woke” initiatives.
Published on: August 13, 2025 | Source:Legal Defense Funds Protect Nonprofits Under Political Attack by Trump Administration
New legal defense funds and nonprofit law firms are stepping in to provide critical support to nonprofits under attack, even as traditional law firms retreat.
Published on: August 13, 2025 | Source:US: Rights Report Mixes Facts, Deception, Political Spin
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 omission of key sections and manipulation of certain countries’ rights abuses degrade and politicize the 2025US State Department human rights report, Human Rights Watch said today....
Published on: August 12, 2025 | Source:Trump-Putin Meeting Sidelines Civilian Protection, Justice
Click to expand Image Hundreds gather in New York City, on March 9, 2025, for the Unite for Ukraine March. 2025 Bender/NurPhoto via AP United States President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet in Alaska on August 15, reportedly to discuss ending Russia’s war in Ukraine. Absent from the discussions will be Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky. And according to the publicly available agenda,...
Published on: August 12, 2025 | Source:Can We All Become Nonprofit Consultants?
The rise in nonprofit consulting reveals deeper sector-wide disillusionment and urges a reimagination of meaningful, sustainable nonprofit work.
Published on: August 12, 2025 | Source:Building Blocks of a Public Policy Agenda for Volunteerism
To support volunteerism, public policy has an important role to play. Here is a framework of what supportive policy for nonprofit volunteers might look like.
Published on: August 12, 2025 | Source:How Harford Foundation Reimagines Scholarships for Debt-Free College
A Hartford-based community foundation is reimagining student support by launching a $30 million scholarship initiative that pairs generous financial aid with wraparound services to help local youth attend and complete college debt-free.
Published on: August 12, 2025 | Source:Chad: 20-Year Sentence for Opposition Leader
Click to expand Image Demonstrators in Paris, France wave Chadian flags during a rally calling for the release of Succès Masra, May 31, 2025. 2025 Umit Donmez / Anadolu via AFP (Nairobi) – The guilty verdict and 20-year sentence imposed on August 9, 2025, on Succès Masra, leader ofChad’s main opposition party, is the culmination of a trial based on politically motivated charges, Human Rights Watch said today.Masra,...
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