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Last Tuesday, our President and CEO Robert Bank discussed living Jewish values; that social justice values are Torah values on the Torah in Action podcast with Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz of Uri L’Tzedek.
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Next steps for foreign policy
The Hill
President-elect Joe Biden promises to cooperate with our allies on economic, political and environmental issues that span borders. That’s a big step forward in reasserting America’s global leadership, but Biden needs to do even more: He needs to swiftly address issues of human rights, justice and poverty in the Global South, especially for people whose voices are …
Read MoreSaving Lives and Defending Human Rights: An Urgent Agenda for Philanthropy
Inside Philanthropy
We find ourselves at an unprecedented moment in the history of modern philanthropy. We are operating at the intersection of an extraordinary global pandemic and longstanding human-made divides. Without a doubt, COVID-19 magnifies these human-made divides in political and economic systems worldwide: glaring disparities in wealth, unequal access to healthcare and ineffective healthcare systems, lack …
Read MoreWhen the world stays silent
Newsday
Yasmin and I were in Washington, D.C., meeting with officials to discuss the genocide in Myanmar. I reflected on my days at North Shore High School because that’s when I started asking questions about my family’s history.
Read MoreNew Coalition Goes on the Offensive for Abortion Rights
The Progressive
Ever since Donald Trump’s election, reproductive rights advocates have had to counter a continuous stream of legislative and policy attacks. Each week brings more talk of what the fall of Roe v. Wade could look like.
Read MoreLand, environmental activist killings surge in Guatemala
Al Jazeera
Global Witness finds Guatemala experienced sharpest increase in number of land, environmental defenders murders in 2018.
Read MoreNew Human Rights Panel Raises Fears of a Narrowing U.S. Advocacy
New York Times
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Monday that he was installing a human rights advisory panel in the State Department, and named a conservative law professor as its chairwoman, to review and tighten the agency’s definition of human rights and ensure it is grounded in the “nation’s founding principles” and a 1948 United Nations declaration.
Read MoreMike Pompeo unveils panel to examine ‘unalienable rights’
Politico
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday unveiled a new Commission on Unalienable Rights, a panel he said is aimed at providing him with “an informed review of the role of human rights in American foreign policy.”
Read MoreIt’s time to end the abusive practice of child marriage
Vancouver Sun
This year, 12 million girls will be married before the age of 18. Some of them will likely be Canadians. But for all of them, it means that they are more likely to have little education, live in poverty, face violence and a higher risk of dying in childbirth as well as a lifetime of …
Read MoreNo sewing please, we’re sex workers: Thai prostitutes battle stigma
Reuters
A group of women sit around a table making dreamcatchers with colorful bits of yarn, chatting about their families, work and the thick smog enveloping Chiang Mai city in northern Thailand. Just another workplace scene, except the women are all sex workers who meet their clients at Can Do Bar, which they own as a …
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