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Collecting vs Collectivizing Adolescent Girls: What’s the Difference?
The international development field is turning an unprecedented level of attention to adolescent girls right now, identifying them as symbols of change for their communities. This has led to increased investment in bringing girls together, but are all these efforts able to empower girls?
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Suddenly Stateless: The successes in the struggle
This story is part of a series of blog posts marking the third anniversary of the court decision that sparked a statelessness crisis in the Dominican Republic. Despite all the accounts of adversity since the 2013 Dominican court ruling, some Dominicans of Haitian descent have successfully applied for documents, restored their nationality and enjoyed the …
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Suddenly Stateless: The people behind the headlines in the Dominican Republic
After the Dominican Republic Constitutional Court’s infamous ruling retroactively stripped citizenship from hundreds of thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent three years ago, a complex, highly-politicized crisis unfolded.
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Suddenly Stateless: Three Years after the Dominican Citizenship Decree
Three years ago today, the Dominican Republic’s constitutional court stripped the citizenship of hundreds of thousands of people, leaving them without a country to call home.
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Power of the People through Pictures: A Liberian Clan’s Victory over an International Palm Oil Company
Many rural Liberians— like the Jogbahn clan of Grand Bassa County— depend on their land to survive. When a British-owned palm oil company attempted to grab and develop their ancestral territory, AJWS grantee Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) successfully pushed back and won.
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AJWS Los Angeles: What’s Happening
Even though we may not see the leaves change here in Southern California, we know fall is a time for transition. As you may have heard, after eight accomplished years at AJWS, Allison Lee has started a new role as the Vice President of External Affairs at Bet Tzedek.
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Women’s Rights Activists Outraged by Insufficient Sentence for Singer
Women’s rights activists are enraged that a popular African rumba musician Koffi Olomide has spent recent weeks posting music videos to the web and playing gigs in his native Democratic Republic of Congo—despite the fact that earlier in the summer, a cell phone camera captured him allegedly assaulting one of his dancers.
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Power of the People: How a Liberian Clan Took on an International Palm Oil Company—and Won
“Even if you were to bring guns and machetes, we would still stand for our land. We would not fight [you]…but we would face you non-violently, and we would stand…You will not take [our land].” That’s the message Joseph Cheo Johnson—a chief elder in Grand Bassa County, Liberia—has for anyone seeking to claim the land …
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AJWS Chicago: What’s Happening
These days, it often feels like we live in a broken and breaking world. Devastating stories continue to top the headlines: terrorism, racism, war, violence and economic injustice. And we know that there are countless other brutalities that never even make it into the news.
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Statement by Robert Bank, President and CEO of American Jewish World Service (AJWS) on Holding the Ugandan Government and Police Accountable for Human Rights Violations
Background NEW YORK—On Thursday, August 4, police in Uganda raided a nightclub where an annual LGBTI pride celebration was taking place. In addition to brutalizing participants in the pride event, the police detained leaders of civil society organizations who are engaged in advocacy for the LGBTI community. This attack is part of an overall …
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