As Dual Storms Hit Central America, AJWS Grantees Work to Keep Communities Safe
Hurricane Iota hurtles towards the same coastlines just battered by Tropical Storm Eta, as Central America braces for more catastrophic damage.
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Ortega Must Go: Nicaragua’s Popular Uprising, Explained
Since April, Nicaragua’s citizens have been waging a fierce uprising against the repressive, authoritarian government of President Daniel Ortega.
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Global Pride: Celebrating LGBT Activists Around the World
Originally published in Out Magazine. Lesbian couple Pen Nol, left, and Chhon Nhoeng, live together on their farm in rural Cambodia. They are members of Rainbow Community Kampuchea (RoCK), a Phnom Phen-based LGBT advocacy organization supported by AJWS. Nheap Pen, center left, and Yarn Mok, center right, live with their grandchildren in rural Cambodia. The …Read More
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For Eddie: I Am Keeping My Promise
Twenty-two years ago, I made a promise that has shaped my life and my work ever since. My beloved partner Eddie, a talented musician, was dying of AIDS.
Read MoreSeventeen Young New York Leaders Selected to Travel to Nicaragua and Learn from Advocates for Human Rights
Trip is part of American Jewish World Service’s new year-long Global Justice Fellowship NEW YORK, NY — Today, American Jewish World Service (AJWS), the leading international Jewish human rights and development organization focused on ending poverty and realizing human rights in the developing world, announced that 17 Jewish New York City Young Leaders were selected …Read More
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Marching to protect women’s lives in Nicaragua
We believe that everyone has the right to live free from violence and constant threat. Yet around the world, an estimated 1 in 3 women will experience assault, rape or other abuse in her lifetime. Nicaragua is no exception, where each year dozens of women are murdered while their attackers roam free. AJWS grantees in …Read More
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Meet Teresa
Teresa, a Nicaraguan woman, married her husband when she was 19 years old. She agreed to follow him anywhere he wanted, including the community of San Rafael, a very remote, rural area. She had six children with him—three sons and three daughters—and lived on four acres of farmland nestled in the mountains.
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Meet Dayanara
Dayanara, a woman from Nicaragua, came out to her family as transgender when she was a teenager. Ostracized by her parents and siblings, and thrown out of her home, Dayanara became a sex worker to support herself financially. She lived on the streets for years, developed a drug addiction and ended up in prison, where …Read More
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Protecting Land for Nicaragua’s Indigenous Communities
In 1996, Nicaragua issued permission for a corporation to cut trees on land owned collectively by an indigenous community known as the Awas Tingni, without the consent of the people. The Awas Tingni, only 630 people strong, have occupied their rich and fertile land on the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua for generations …
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