Press Releases

TORONTO, August 18 – The Girl Child Network of Zimbabwe, an American Jewish World Service grantee since 2004, was awarded the United Nations Development Program Red Ribbon Award on Thursday, August 16, at the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto. This newly-created award provides worldwide recognition to an organization that has been creatively addressing HIV/AIDS …

NEW YORK, July 6, 2006 – Ruth Messinger, President of American Jewish World Service, is visiting South Sudan and northern Uganda. In neglected and war-stricken areas, Messinger is bearing witness to the lives of refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and the ongoing struggle for human rights in the region. Messinger’s trip is focusing on …

A rainbow of communities of conscience unite to stop the genocide in Darfur. Washington, D.C. (May 1, 2006)– The words “never again” resounded from Washington’s National Mall yesterday, as the first anti-genocide rally in American history drew thousands upon thousands to the nation’s capital.“We can become the leaders we have been waiting for,” said American …

“No American of conscience should stand by while genocide occurs in the Sudan,” says Messinger, American Jewish World Service President. WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 28th 2006)- Ruth Messinger, President of the American Jewish World Service and co-founder of the Save Darfur Coalition, was arrested today in front of the Sudanese Embassy to protest the genocide in …