The AJWS community has a lot to say about what's happening in the world. Read our insights about the struggle for justice and human rights around the globe — and meet the activists on the frontlines of the fight to build a better world.
Today is the six-month anniversary of the Haiti earthquake and, even though the world’s attention is fading, there’s been a lot of newsandblogcoverage about the work that lies ahead. Most of the focus has been on Port-au-Prince and, while the earthquake took its major toll on an urban center, we can’t forget about the devastating …
Solar kit brings green power to Kenya’s rural poor, helping them cook [AlertNet] In Burkina Faso, local food plays a vital role [IRIN] More on Cambodia’s land rights crisis [AlertNet] Africa needs a brown (not green) food revolution [Christian Science Monitor] A commitment to global food security [Voice of America] Aid agencies call for a …
A few weeks ago, I wrote about Cambodian farmers’ fight for land rights in a country where land grabs are disturbingly common. An estimated 85 percent of Cambodian households lack land titles. Many villages lose their livelihoods as a result of the Cambodian government routinely leasing large tracts of rural land for agro-industrial exploitation. Over …
Today’s heart-breaking New York Times story about Haiti’s orphans is a painful reminder of the earthquake’s enduring devastation. The article offers a harrowing portrait of Daphne, a 14-year-old girl who watched her mother’s mangled body get carted away in a wheelbarrow from a shattered marketplace. Daphne then lived in a makeshift orphanage founded by Frades—a …
Originally posted on Pursue: Action for a Just World. On January 25th of this year, I was in a conference room at AJWS full of excited people brainstorming about starting a Jewish, social-justice-focused Community Supported Agriculture group, or CSA. We were committed to turning the plan into reality, but not quite sure how we were …
