Human Rights

The program is required under a state law passed eight years ago but still hasn’t been fully adopted.

The gap exists across industries but is bigger in higher-paying fields, leading to more calls for policies that aid women in the workforce.

What organizations can do to persevere through resistance.

The two-year Rural Library Fellowship, funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Save the Children, is attempting to boost the capacity of libraries and “activate libraries…

Wartime trauma paired with starting over in a new country make getting health care particularly challenging for immigrant refugees. Talking to a doctor or getting prescriptions filled in an unfamiliar…

Paralyzed from the neck down, downtown Milwaukee resident Martha Chambers has difficulty voting. She can use a mouth stick to mark her ballot and sign her name on an absentee…

Reading is essential — not just for school success, but for life. When children have trouble learning to read, it can kick off a devastating downward spiral. Struggling readers are…

Sara Lomelin offered the final TED Talk of this year’s conference of expert speakers last month, on a particularly star-studded day in Vancouver, Canada, where she followed actress Bryce Dallas…

When we think about the ways that philanthropy has worked historically, what we’ve heard from and shared with young activists during the Pro-action Cafe (a community space for open conversations…

As climate change increases the frequency and intensity of natural hazards, the devastation and destruction left behind grows. Land becomes unhabitable, and infrastructure crumbles, causing migration for survival. However, climate…

Andean communities reviving ancestral water technologies are key to fighting climate change, says Community Voices Fellow Paloma Rodríguez.

A hodgepodge of state and local laws makes some violence a hate crime in some places, but not in others.