AJWS Blog
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.
This activist collective is nurturing the future of African democracy
“We live in different African countries, but the challenges and the conditions of life are almost the same,” says Sylvain Saluseke, the operations team lead at Afrikki. Sylvain and fellow activists are using those shared experiences to build a future that’ll benefit them all, their communities and entire nations. In 2016, three African youth activist …
Three Women, Endless Impact: Thoughtshop Foundation empowers young leaders to tear down India’s patriarchy
“We always start with a question — that’s where everything begins,” says Himalini Varma, the director of AJWS grantee Thoughtshop Foundation. Her organization, co-led with her partner Santayan Sangupta in 1993, has transformed the lives of thousands of young women across West Bengal, India, by approaching change through this lens: opening up space to …
In the Dominican Republic, a revolutionary gathering for girls’ rights
Girls and young women across much of Latin America and the Caribbean face more challenges in everyday life than their male counterparts. Teenage pregnancy; sexual and gender-based violence; little choice in when, whether and whom to marry; lack of sex education; few options for good paying jobs; being forced to drop out of school and …