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.
“I can still remember people crying when they had to leave their village,” recalls Ja Hkawn, a serious woman who has an air of sadness about her. The emotions sparked by this forced departure are difficult for her to erase. Ja Hkawn is from Tang Hpre village in northern Burma, near the confluence of two …
As the global media focused on an historic transition of power in Washington D.C. last week, an even more dramatic presidential transition took place in the West Africa in The Gambia, with the support of its neighbor, Senegal.
When you walk into what remains of Françoise Inocent’s ravaged cement home—remnants of a stairway at the front, steel rods and slabs of walls still standing, and mounds of rubble, all exposed to the open skies—it’s hard not to lose morale. Hurricane Matthew wrecked thousands of homes like this, robbing countless Haitians of their shelter …
My world is abuzz. I know yours is, too. Like millions of other Americans, I have been in a non-stop conversation since November 8 about what the new U.S. administration and Congress will mean for the America we yearn for—one that is inclusive at home and stands tall for justice and human rights worldwide. These …
