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The Time is Now: Reflections from the Global Justice Fellowship trip to the Dominican Republic
Last month, 10 rabbis from across the U.S. spent a week in the Dominican Republic as part of a Global Justice Fellowship trip with AJWS. Focusing heavily on the Dominican government’s policies related to the citizenship status of Dominicans of Haitian descent, the delegation met with grantees working to address some of the most pressing human rights issues in the region. Rabbi Elyse Winick, the Jewish chaplain at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, wrote this reflection at the end of the trip.
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Power Africa: Deals or development? 5 questions for the US government
In a rare and welcome display of bipartisan support, the United States Congress just passed the Electrify Africa Act, ensuring the continuation of the Obama administration’s Power Africa initiative to expand access to electricity in Africa. Now that this legislation will become the law of the land, we urge the U.S. government to succeed by asking …
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Power Africa: Deals or development? 5 questions for the US government
In a rare and welcome display of bipartisan support, the United States Congress just passed the Electrify Africa Act, ensuring the continuation of the Obama administration’s Power Africa initiative to expand access to electricity in Africa. Now that this legislation will become the law of the land, we urge the U.S. government to succeed by asking and answering the key questions we offer below.
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AJWS Bay Area: What’s Happening
As I write this, we are only six weeks away from AJWS’s 30th Anniversary Gala celebration here in the Bay Area. Our San Francisco gala will celebrate AJWS’s leadership in the world as a Jewish voice for ending poverty and promoting human rights.
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Rabbis Return From American Jewish World Service Delegation to the Dominican Republic Where they Witnessed an Ongoing Human Rights Crisis
Rabbis met with activists working to reverse the Dominican government’s policy to strip tens of thousands Dominicans of Haitian descent of their citizenship rights New York, NY — Ten Rabbis from across the country returned from the Dominican Republic earlier this week as part of a Global Justice Fellowship trip with American Jewish World Service …
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Fighting Caste Discrimination and Supporting Earthquake Recovery in Nepal
As a child growing up in rural Nepal, Bishnu Pariyar would walk to school every morning with three other children from her village. During these two hour-long treks, Bishnu’s age mates treated her as an equal, chatting and giggling with her as they would any other friend. But when they stopped for a drink at …
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“Our vision is for a more just and equitable society”: Reflections from Guatemala
Lesbia Morales is in her early 30s. She was the first woman president of AJWS grantee Comité Campesino del Altiplano (CCDA), a grassroots organization of small-scale farmers supported by AJWS. The group works in 11 regions throughout Guatemala to confront land rights challenges and meet the needs of rural, predominantly Mayan communities. Now, Lesbia coordinates CCDA’s political education …
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Defending Land Rights in Cambodia’s Highlands: Indigenous Communities take a Rubber Company to Task
In a remote province of northeastern Cambodia sandwiched between Laos and Vietnam, a war is being fought. The war is not between nations or peoples. No armies have been deployed, and no military weaponry is being used. Yet for the thousands of people living in the province, the struggle is a matter of life and death.
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