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.
January 12 marks seven years since the catastrophic earthquake that devastated Haiti in 2010. Ahead of this anniversary, I visited the country alongside AJWS colleagues who work there, to document the widespread destruction left behind by another tragedy—Hurricane Matthew.
On December 10, we will mark the 68th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights—a document that is now more important than ever, as we confront the real and powerful threats to human rights being posed by the incoming administration in our own country, and governments around the world.
Research around the globe is helping us better understand why some girls marry very young, while others wait to marry—and often enjoy greater education, income and freedom in the process.
Across the globe, as nationalistic and autocratic governments come into power, we will need to work together to fight for equality and keep out the darkness.
Indigenous peoples, estimated to be between 350-400 million worldwide, literally sit on the majority of the world’s natural resources—whether water, forests, land, or minerals—on the nearly 20 percent of the world’s lands that they inhabit.
