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Refugee-led organisations (RLOs) deliver critical services, but the funding they receive is comparatively tiny. Our new report identifies how the humanitarian sector can and must navigate key obstacle...

Gen Z youth lead protest movements across the Global Majority demanding justice and dignity, while Western youth face a far-right surge fueled by grievance and nostalgia. This post explores why youth ...

The UN climate conference in the Brazilian Amazon marks an unprecedented effort to elevate Indigenous concerns in negotiating rooms and on the streets.

How do we achieve transformative change in a world where the far-right is on the rise? Join us this Jan for a Campaign Accelerator Training!

As the Disney/ABC boycott took off, youth activist group Get Free mobilized its “Andor” fan community to amp up the pressure.

Following widespread criticism, so-called poverty porn, which usually appears in the guise of photographs featuring people in extreme states of suffering,1,2 is now largely discouraged in contemporary...

Madagascar has faced repeated social crises primarily due to frequent power and water cuts. These circumstances have been a source of frustration, sparking fresh protests in the country in September 2025.

As Nepal’s famed palace complex Singha Durbar went up in flames last week, protesters determined to rattle the government hung a manga flag showing a skull wearing a straw hat against the building’s o...

Building the power of changemakers to confront today's greatest challenges

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Building the power of changemakers to confront today's greatest challenges

The Prosecutor General’s Office accused the organisations of inciting violence.

A powerful anti-rights movement is growing in the UK, threatening to roll back our hard-won freedoms and rewrite the rules on whose rights, bodies and lives deserve protection. But - we refuse to be d...

Tools for campaigners to understand how systems of oppression play out in your campaign problem and dream of a future where we are all free.

Color is a powerful way to represent hopes, ideals, but also frustrations and injustices. Let’s look at how colors have become symbols…

The social media giant follows Alphabet, Google’s parent company, which made a similar decision in November.

In this blog, SMK Programme Support and Communications Officer Greta Mauch shares her top 10 book recommendations for campaigners.

The recent acquisition of Superstruct Entertainment by the American private equity company KKR is causing considerable unrest within the European festival world.

The Commons is an online library for the change makers of the world and for those interested in social change, activism, organising, advocacy and justice.

The Hungarian government banned this year’s Pride parade in Budapest. Yet people still came out in such numbers that the event turned from one of support for the LGBTQ+ community to a direct challenge...

Now the New York mayoral candidate he needs to ensure an electoral win that translates into tangible improvements in people’s lives

Maersk’s decision follows over a year of pressure by the “Mask off Maersk” campaign, led by the Palestinian Youth Movement

Hi everyone. Before we get started on today’s topic, happy Pride! To all my colleagues who are lesbian, gay, (fellow)...

As Tesla’s profits drop, a group called Everyone Hates Elon is going viral for plastering London with fake advertisements for the company, infiltrating a car showroom, and inviting the public to trash...

Introducing the People's Academy — your guide to the key questions of our time.

A conversation with Anat Shenker-Osorio

Authoritarian playbook for oppressing civil society

The National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (NGLHRC) gained a historic win at the Kenyan Supreme Court on February 24, 2023. It was finally able to register as an official nongovernmental org...

The promotion of a misogynist agenda is worsening divisions and spurring global campaigns to counter the advancement of women, and the marginalization of other groups.

El 25 de marzo de 1911, un pavoroso incendio consumió en apenas media hora los pisos octavo, noveno y décimo del edificio Asch, en el Greenwich Village de Nueva York. Estos tres pisos albergaban la fábrica Triangle Shirtwaist (Blusas Triángulo) en donde trabajaban unas 500 personas, la mayoría de ellas jóvenes inmigrantes que apenas hablaban inglés.

Feminist Movements Are Tackling the Far Right