AJWS Blog
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.
In the Dominican Republic, a revolutionary gathering for girls’ rights
Girls and young women across much of Latin America and the Caribbean face more challenges in everyday life than their male counterparts. Teenage pregnancy; sexual and gender-based violence; little choice in when, whether and whom to marry; lack of sex education; few options for good paying jobs; being forced to drop out of school and …
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After a brutal civil war, a nation of organic farmers is growing in El Salvador
On the edge of a field of banana trees outside the village of Linares, deep in the jungles of El Salvador, over a dozen disabled war survivors are scribbling down a recipe for organic, homemade fertilizer. Wilfredo Pena, the agricultural coordinator of AJWS grantee Asociación de Lisiados de Guerra de El Salvador (ALGES), is walking …