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Let’s Protect Human Rights, Not Big Businesses
Is Shell Oil too big to punish? That’s the question that our friends at EarthRights International (ERI) asked during their recent campaign in which they called upon the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold human rights for people who have been exploited by big businesses. In October of 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments for Kiobel v. Royal …
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April 24th Statement on President Obama’s proposal to reform US Global Food Aid
New York, NY; April 24, 2013— In response to Senate and House hearings this week on foreign assistance and the president’s FY14 budget proposal, here is a statement for attribution from Ruth Messinger, President of American Jewish World Service, an organization that has been deeply involved in the fight for international food aid reform: “We …
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Statement on President Obama’s proposal to reform US Global Food Aid by Ruth Messinger, President of American Jewish World Service (AJWS)
Ruth Messinger issued a statement in support of the significant and historic reforms to the U.S. government’s global food aid program in President Obama’s 2014 budget.
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Passover 5773: Too Many Women Are Still Slaves
Originally published in The Huffington Post. Every Passover, we gather with family and friends around the Seder table to read the inspiring foundational story of our people’s liberation from slavery in Egypt. We tell and retell this story every year, and millennia later it informs who we are. There are many ways in which Judaism …
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Facing a Food Crisis: The Ingenuity of Haitian Farmers
Originally posted on The Jew and the Carrot. With Passover around the corner, many of us are poised to recite the words, “Let all who are hungry come and eat.” But when nearly 1 billion people around the world are hungry or malnourished, these words become acutely daunting—particularly for communities recovering from disasters. More than three …
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Why Is This Day Unlike Other Days?
Today is International Women’s Day—an important date on AJWS’s calendar! It doesn’t get a lot of fanfare here in the U.S. but it means a whole lot for women and girls around the world who are struggling against injustice. In the communities AJWS supports, International Women’s Day is a day to honor brave women who …
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With Hillary gone, will State Department still prioritize women?
Originally published by Salon. It’s no secret that when former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton famously declared in 1995 that “women’s rights are human rights,” she cemented her status as a champion for women and girls around the world. And as secretary of state, Clinton made gender equality and women’s empowerment a pillar of American diplomacy. The question now is whether the departure of the …
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Let’s Not Discount Kenya’s Grassroots Groups in Promoting a Peaceful Election
Six years after violence and conflict marked Kenyan elections in 2007, millions of Kenyans will travel to the polls to elect their new leaders in early March. This is a pivotal moment in Kenyan history following the peaceful ratification of Kenya’s new progressive constitution in 2010. Each moment in Kenyan history is unique, and we …
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American Jewish World Service Hopeful about President’s Proposed Food Aid Reforms
New York, NY; February 26, 2013— Ruth Messinger, president of the international development and human rights organization, American Jewish World Service (AJWS), today issued the following statement in response to reports that President Obama will propose new food aid reforms in his fiscal year 2014 budget: AJWS welcomes reports that the President will propose important …
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American Jewish World Service Names Jacqueline Hart Vice President for Strategic Learning, Research and Evaluation
New York, NY; February 25, 2013— American Jewish World Service (AJWS) has appointed Jacqueline Hart, Ph.D., as its first Vice President for Strategic Learning, Research and Evaluation. In this newly created leadership position, Hart, a highly regarded researcher and evaluator of social justice work, will be responsible for leading the organization’s efforts to measure its …
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