A Historic LGBT Pride Month
What a month! LGBT Pride Month has come and gone, but it will go down in American history as one of the momentous times for LGBT rights.
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.
“We Have Human Rights Like Everyone Else”: Reflections from the Democratic Republic of Congo
To say Masinda Masiano is formidable would be an understatement. She packs a punch, both in personality and speech, even if her frame is slight. Masinda is a Pygmy from the village of Mujo Mukondo outside Goma in North Kivu province. She doesn’t know how old she is, but I’d guess at least 60. She met us at the village entrance in a bright orange polo shirt emblazoned with the AJWS logo.
Fighting for Pygmy Rights: Reflections from the Democratic Republic of Congo
Mujo Mukondo village was “just outside Goma,” according to Joseph Itongwa Mukumo, the North Kivu coordinator of AJWS grantee Program for the Integration and Development of the Pygmy People (PIDP). But, to me, it may as well have been on the moon—and not just because of the potholes on the road. It was a different world, far from a major city.
Moral Courage in the Face of Injustice: A Call to Action from a Global Justice Fellow
I, along with twelve other participants in this year’s New York based Global Justice Fellowship of American Jewish World Service, returned last week from Santo Domingo where we engaged in powerful encounters with representatives of seven NGOs. The deadline of June 17th hovered over most of these meetings, several of which involved Dominican activists of Haitian descent who are not migrants and whose families have lived for generations in the Dominican Republic.
Life After Ebola
AJWS grantee THRP helps survivors handle the psychological aftermath of the epidemic.