Human Rights

The founders of Zero Hour are demanding that executives and elected officials act to safeguard a livable future for our planet. Speakers: Deonna Anderson, Senior Editor, GreenBiz Group Lorena Sosa,…

In 2018, Congress passed the First Step Act, a wide-ranging prison reform legislation that, among other things, required the federal prison system to expand access to medications for people addicted…

Teri Finneman is not a fan of history textbooks that reduce the women’s suffrage movement to a few stories about Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. To Finneman, an expert of…

Giving Compass’ Take: • Research by the AAUW reveals that the gender pay gap exists along gender, race, education, and sexual orientation lines. Education is not sufficient to reduce the…

Among the many lessons learned during this pandemic, COVID-19 has emphasized the need for health equity. Already, we are seeing a disproportionately low distribution of lifesaving resources to low- and…

Very often, people think of biodiversity as a collection of fantastic animals and plants; but it is much more than that. It includes various life forms and is associated with…

European women are at least 60 years away from winning equality with men and the pandemic could further slow progress, according to a report that measures gender fairness. The 2020…

Giving Compass’ Take: • A report published by the Building Movement Project surveys nonprofit leaders of color to shed light on the pervasiveness of the nonprofit racial leadership gap.   •…

Black philanthropy is ancestral. Prioritizing community well-being and collective progress are the backbone of what it means to be Black in America. It is epigenetic, or hard-wired into our DNA,…

Maternal deaths have declined worldwide over the past two decades and are down by more than a third due to affordable, quality health care services. Not all countries, however, have benefited…

As the protests against our deeply anti-Black, extremely racist systems continue, I am glad to see that foundations and nonprofits are getting more engaged in the conversations about how our…

Malnutrition is a global crisis. Poor nutrition has far-reaching implications. On an individual level, it causes people to be more susceptible to illnesses due to weakened immunities. From a wider…