Throughout 2025, AJWS has been celebrating our 40th anniversary — four decades of our global movement to build a better world. The story of AJWS isn’t easily told; we’ve been evolving and adapting since we were founded.
But the impact of our work funding progressive, grassroots activists in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean is clear: laws passed, social norms shifted, land and resources defended and millions — truly, millions — of lives changed.
With our 40th anniversary coming to an end, we asked our outgoing President & CEO, Robert Bank, along with donors, board members and some truly inspiring AJWS partners, to reflect on our ongoing fight for global human rights.
The stories these partners tell are powerful examples of AJWS’s impact around the world — and just the tip of the iceberg of what we’ve accomplished over the past 40 years.
