More than 300 American Jewish organizations and communal leaders have signed a letter urging the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to pass the Burma Human Rights and Freedom Act, which targets the Burmese military in particular for its ongoing atrocities against the Rohingya people. The letter, sent to the committee on Friday, argued that passage of the …
Read MoreMyanmar’s military cracked down on Muslim Rohingya from Rakhine State following August 25 Rohingya militant attacks on an army base and police posts. He is the first high-level military officer to be named in the sanctions for overseeing the campaign of atrocities against the Rohingya.
Read MoreThe United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on a Myanmar general who led the military’s brutal crackdown on Rohingya Muslims in the country’s violence-ridden northern Rakhine state. Major General Maung Maung Soe, head of the Myanmar Army’s Western Command during the military operation that has now driven more than 650,000 Rohingya across the border to …
Read MoreWhen Catholic Relief Services put together a proposal to change how society cares for children in orphanages, as part of the MacArthur Foundation’s competition for a $100 million grant, it had to figure out how the Catholic Church could go from being part of the problem to part of the solution.
Read MoreGiven the state of our country and the world today, there’s a lot riding on this next generation of human beings. As a mom, I need all the tools I can get to encourage my two little boys to someday become adults who will build a better world than the one they were born into, who …
Read MoreWhat would you call two bright, talented and well-qualified city pigeons who left their cushy jobs, moved to a village 180km from Pune, and started living among the villagers? Loony? Perhaps. Brave? Likely. Determined? Most certainly. In 1987, Dr Ramesh Awasthi and Dr Manisha Gupte moved to Malshiras in Pune district, spent five years there, …
Read MorePope Francis is facing criticism for his failure to reference Rohingya Mulsims by name during a visit to Myanmar on Tuesday. The U.N. says the Rohingya are victims of ethnic cleansing carried out by Myanmar’s government.
Read MoreFrom the viewpoint of American Jewish World Service (AJWS), President Donald Trump’s “America First” slogan has the wrong emphasis. Rather than seeking to maximize American interests, AJWS’ goal is to use American resources — specifically, American-Jewish resources — to support human rights and anti-poverty initiatives abroad.
Read MoreIn the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, countless women have come forward to share their accounts of harassment, sexual assault, and abuse at the hands of powerful men in nearly every industry. As our Facebook feeds swelled with #MeToo stories, we were sorely reminded of the ways in which all institutions – including Jewish ones …
Read MoreA skinny finger of water separates Bangladesh from Myanmar, and the other night a group of men sat on the Bangladeshi side, peering into the darkness, wondering what was left for them. For these men, ethnic Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar, there is certainly nothing back across the water. Home doesn’t exist anymore. Myanmar’s army wiped …
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