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April 17, 2020

Saving 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 …

August 24, 2019

When 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.

July 30, 2019

New 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.

July 29, 2019

Land, environmental activist killings surge in Guatemala

Al Jazeera

Global Witness finds Guatemala experienced sharpest increase in number of land, environmental defenders murders in 2018.

July 9, 2019

New 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.

July 9, 2019

Mike 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.”

June 6, 2019

It’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 …

May 15, 2019

No 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 …

May 13, 2019

Jews Are Speaking Out Against China’s Ethnic Cleansing Of Muslims. Will It Help?

Forward

When a powerful nation interns at least a million Muslims in concentration camps in an effort to eradicate their culture and religion, is that a Jewish issue? And if so, what can and should be done? Because that is happening today. Today, the Chinese government is holding an estimated one to three million Muslim Uighurs and other …

April 17, 2019

Jewish groups in US welcome bill on Rohingya crisis, says paper

Fronteir Myanmar

Jewish groups in the United States have welcomed the introduction of a bipartisan bill in the Senate to sanction Myanmar officials responsible for the persecution of the Rohingya, a publication based in New York has reported. The Forward, which serves the large and influential Jewish American community, reported on April 15 that the Burma Human …