The AJWS community has a lot to say about what's happening in the world. Read our insights about the struggle for justice and human rights around the globe — and meet the activists on the frontlines of the fight to build a better world.
With Valentine’s Day in just a few days, we’ve got love on our minds. The activists that you support through AJWS perform acts of love and kindness every day — defending human dignity, helping the oppressed, and building strong, tight-knit communities where people truly have each other’s backs. But we wanted to spotlight a story …
AJWS grantee Isaan Land Reform Network (ILRN) is the epitome of ‘grassroots’ — a coalition of 36 Thai communities of small-scale farmers, banded together to support each of their struggles for land rights. Thousands of farmers across Thailand have been forcibly evicted from their ancestral lands by the state or private corporations; ILRN gives them …
While hydroelectric dams can seem like a clean and renewable energy source, they cause greenhouse gas emissions, destroy habitats and violate the human rights of the communities they displace. Too often, these projects are pushed forward without consultation with the communities that will be affected by them. AJWS’s partners work with communities threatened by proposed …
In June 2024, Thailand’s LGBTQI+ people achieved a massive human rights victory when the country legalized same sex marriage. But activists know there is still work to do. “Marriage equality opened more space for us to talk about trans rights,” AJWS partner Hua Boonyapisomparn (she/her) of the Foundation of Transgender Alliance for Human Rights (ThaiTGA), …
Welcome to 2026 — a year that will undoubtedly be filled with challenges, challenges we’ll meet together with stronger resolve and greater resistance. Thank you for standing with AJWS and our partners over the past year, and thanks in advance for continuing to support the kind of human rights progress that’s so essential right now. …
