WASHINGTON - Today, on International Safe Abortion Day, U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (IL-09) and Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) reintroduced the Abortion is Health Care Everywhere Act, legislation t...

Amnesty International announced Saturday that Guatemala's judiciary has closed criminal proceedings against four Indigenous leaders who had been charged over their role in nationwide protests during G...

Amid rising debt, shrinking aid budgets, geopolitical competition, and growing food and energy insecurity, Foreign Policy’s Global Development Forum @ UNGA81 will examine how leaders are reimagining d...

Your gift to AJWS will support nearly 500 grassroots human rights organizations in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean working to fight poverty, defend democracy, respond to disasters and t...

This conversation explores how American Jewish World Service understands global justice as an expression of human dignity, solidarity, and the belief that every person deserves the opportunity to ...

The real-life consequences of these foreign policy decisions are cruel, devastating and shortsighted.

“Talki”, a play produced and performed by AJWS grantee organization Payana, is an initiative to build a more equal and open India, where LGBTQI+ people can live with dignity, safety, and freedom.

A foundation advocating for sex workers submitted a draft bill to parliament on Thursday that would decriminalise sex work and extend labour protections to those in the industry. The Empower Foundatio...

The High Court has issued a landmark ruling declaring that Kenyan law does not expressly prohibit the alteration of sex or gender markers on official documents, in a decision expected to shape future ...

But there are ways to break free. Today in Haiti, much of government operates on the currency of corruption. While there are people of integrity in all state agencies, networks of corrupt politicians…

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New York (April 29, 2026) — American Jewish World Service (AJWS) hails the introduction of bicameral legislation to halt the implementation of the expanded Global Gag rules.

Meet the brave LGBTQI+ journalists and podcasters in Uganda risking their personal freedom to protect freedom of the press.

AJWS has supported community radio stations around the world broadcasting messages of peace and understanding, creating spaces for open dialogue.

Long before it became his life’s work, the fight for human rights had already taken root in Tawanda Mutasah — a lesson first given by his mother, who taught him, “Every person matters. Take them all s...

Failure to appoint Jeremy Carl is a rare setback for Trump, with Republican-controlled Senate mostly approving his appointments

We must all stand against empowering anyone who publicly cultivates such disturbing, antisemitic beliefs as Mr. Carl.

It would be unconscionable to put someone whose beliefs so defy morality and American ideals in a position to guide the U.S. on the international stage

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Susan Collins (R-ME), Jacky Rosen...

While private donors can't fill the role of government, for Jewish groups, 'philanthropy can actually step up to ensure that that ecosystem can continue to exist and can weather this difficult period ...

After crucial global progress toward tackling the climate crisis in recent years, we are re-entering an era where powerful industrial nations are again resorting to military force to control fossil fu...

YouTube video by Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke

Thai LGBTQI+ activists achieved a massive victory in June 2024 when the country legalized same-sex marriage. Now they’re setting their sights on a new goal: expanding trans rights.

AJWS denounces the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from dozens of international organizations that advance global stability, sustainability, democracy, and economic growth.