American Jewish World Service (AJWS) is an international development organization motivated to Judaism's imperative to pursue justice.
In his speech at the national prayer breakfast on February 4, President Obama commended AJWS as an example of the “compassion and decency of the American people” following the earthquake in Haiti. The president’s remarks about AJWS can be heard at 3:20 into the video.
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For the past decade, AJWS has been standing in solidarity with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities in the developing world to help them fight for their dignity, their access to health services and their basic human rights. More
Racial equality. Religious freedom. Freedom of speech. This is likely what comes to mind at the mention of "human rights." But the fundamental prerequisite to all of these essential rights is often sorely overlooked—the human right to food. More
For millions of people around the world today, the very concept of "human rights" is nonexistent. The inalienable rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights—life, safety, food and water—are in many places, an abstraction, at best. More
In advance of today's hearing held by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations concerning Haiti's reconstruction, American Jewish World Service president Ruth Messinger expressed her concern that Haitian voices be heard as plans for rebuilding begin.
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Cantave Jean-Baptiste, AJWS’s Haiti field coordinator, shares his story about surviving the earthquake and expresses gratitude for AJWS’s relief efforts.
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Read Ruth’s article “Responding to the Haiti Earthquake: What I’ve Learned from People on the Ground”
In response to egregious human rights violations against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals in Uganda, AJWS has established the URGENT LGBT UGANDA FUND. The fund will support Ugandan grassroots organizations working to defend the rights of sexual minorities and to defeat a dangerous piece of proposed legislation—"The Anti-Homosexuality Bill." more
Applications for Volunteer Corps and Volunteer Summer are due February 5, 2010.
American Jewish World Service (AJWS) is an international development organization motivated by Judaism's imperative to pursue justice. More
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