Human Rights

“We are not making a great deal of progress in bringing women into STEM jobs in any sort of equitable numbers.”…

Today, 66-year-old Maty Tine is a pillar of her community in western Senegal — a progressive farmer, environmental advocate, and radio presenter in her local dialect. But growing into this…

The U.S. is finally moving away from fossil fuels, but there aren’t enough electricians to do the job.

Eight areas of life critical to health and well-being totally account for why Black adults in the US have a higher risk of early death.

In the previous entry in this three-part series, Filipino climate justice frontline leader and Co-Director of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN), Christine Cordero discussed the group’s history and how climate funders…

Women make up 90% of frontline health care workers globally — and those in unpaid roles are grossly underpaid yet continue to hold health systems together in the wake of…

<p>This report assesses the impact of investments in rural health care in Viet Nam by The Atlantic Philanthropies, the Vietnamese government, and other international donors. It is based on a large-scale longitudinal study from 2008 to 2016 in twelve communes in three Vietnamese provinces: Thái…

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Too many people for too long have lived with raw sewage in their yards in poverty-stricken parts of Alabama.

Since 2013, Alexandra Toma has served as executive director of the Peace and Security Funders Group (PSFG), which connects and supports the global community of public, private, and operating foundations and individual…

The B-CORE project, described in this report, applied the deliberative democracy method to engage affected community members in problem-solving focused on maternal health inequities in California….

Nicole Horseherder founded Tó Nizhóní Ání – “sacred water speaks” – to protect Navajo aquifers against depletion by coal companies.

In less than a week, seven people were shot after doing the ordinary — ringing a doorbell or turning around in a driveway.