Honoring Land Rights Advocates in Kenya with a New Earth Day Video
On the coast of Kenya, salt companies have forcefully and illegally evicted rural communities from land that indigenous people have lived on and farmed for generations.
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My Grandmother’s Courage during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Today is especially poignant for me, as the granddaughter of Edna Brill. April 19th marks the day my grandmother joined with thousands of other Jews in the Warsaw ghetto in 1943 to resist the Nazis’ plan to transport the remaining Jews in the ghetto to Treblinka for their extermination. This was the largest act of …
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New video from India on gender inequality and political power
By Margo Mullinax, PhD, and Elizabeth Daube The 2018 Commission on the Status of Women is underway at the United Nations this week, and at AJWS, we’ve just launched a new video for the occasion. “When Women Lead: Manju’s Story” explores one compelling way of making women’s rights a reality: electing them into public office. …
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AJWS Bay Area: What’s Happening
We live in a time when the news flashes before our eyes—a rollercoaster ride of stories that appear and vanish almost hourly. In this landscape, many critical struggles for human rights never make the front page.
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When Women Lead: Manju’s Story
RAJASTHAN, INDIA — At 23, Manju Kumari is already a sarpanch, the elected head of her rural village. And she’s one of a rising number of women in India filling these political positions, ever since the government reserved a proportion of village leadership seats for women. But in the face of longstanding gender inequality and …
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What I Love About AJWS
We asked our supporters what they love about the AJWS community and our work to build a better world. Here’s what they shared!
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AJWS Bay Area: What’s Happening
I think we are all ready for 2018. This year, we have witnessed storms that battered parts of the U.S. and the Caribbean, earthquakes in Mexico, famine in East Africa, and the horrific mass murder of the Rohingya taking place in Burma.
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We Are AJWS: A Time for Hope and Action
In a time of escalating fear, brokenness and despair, supporters of AJWS aren’t losing hope. Learn how we’re harnessing optimism to build a better world together.
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Building a Better World for Future Generations on Universal Children’s Day
Millions of children around the world are suffering from violence, hunger and discrimination—from Rohingya children living in squalid refugee camps in Bangladesh, to girls in Uganda who are recovering from sexual abuse in the aftermath of Uganda’s civil war. Fortunately, AJWS’s grantees are restoring hope, dignity and human rights for children who face injustice all over the world.
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Books Beyond Borders: AJWS Marin Global Justice Book and Film Club
AJWS is partnering with the Osher Marin JCC to launch a special edition of our Books Beyond Borders club in Marin! Four times a year, we will feature a book and film pairing that connects to AJWS’s mission to promote human rights and end poverty in the developing world.
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