Stories on Momentum
Momentum on Democracy
A powerful movement is sweeping Nicaragua. Hundreds of thousands of people have flooded the streets…
Momentum on Capitol Hill
The past two years have brought a litany of assaults on global human rights—many from…
Momentum on LGBTI Rights
In 2010, as rumors of a same-sex wedding swirled in the conservative coastal city of…
Momentum on Legal Justice
In 1981, during the Guatemalan armed conflict, 21-year-old political activist Emma Molina Theissen was arrested,…
Momentum on Gender Equality
One afternoon when Sonali Khatun was only 14, she returned home from school in her…
Momentum on Rohingya Rights
The Rohingya people of Burma (Myanmar) have faced decades of abuse and violence at the…
Momentum on Halting Mining
In El Salvador last year, a group of local farmers proved that water is more…
Momentum on Peace
In a garden in Casamance, Senegal, sprouts poke hopefully out of the soil.