AJWS celebrates 40 years of fighting for human rights.
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A powerful movement is sweeping Nicaragua. Hundreds of thousands of people have flooded the streets…
The past two years have brought a litany of assaults on global human rights—many from…
In 2010, as rumors of a same-sex wedding swirled in the conservative coastal city of…
In 1981, during the Guatemalan armed conflict, 21-year-old political activist Emma Molina Theissen was arrested,…
One afternoon when Sonali Khatun was only 14, she returned home from school in her…
In a garden in Casamance, Senegal, sprouts poke hopefully out of the soil.
