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Charting a new course for the human rights movement
Philanthropy has a crucial role to play in supporting human rights groups to focus on people’s economic and social rights as well as promoting their civil and political freedoms Human rights philanthropy is not a …
The battle to build a human rights movement fit for the times
The open, liberal, and democratic societies which human rights help to foster are under sustained attack. Right-wing governments and movements have harnessed popular discontent and trained fire on groups which human rights legislation was established …
Global Updates
This is our round-up of philanthropy news around the world featured in the September 2019 issue of Alliance: The Americas Wealthy philanthropists call on themselves to pay more tax Core and Cornell partnership to improve food …
The quest for collaboration in Asia
The potential advantages of far-reaching collaboration underpinned AVPN’s conference in Singapore. But it is a virtue more often preached than practised. Underlying all the themes at the recent AVPN conference in Singapore was the idea …
LGBTI human rights: pushing back against the push-back
A funders’ collaborative is mobilising grantmaker support for LGBTI rights advocates and communities facing hostility Global Philanthropy Project (GPP) is a collaboration of 19 funders and philanthropic advisers working to expand global philanthropic support to …
Philanthropists can challenge political discourse to put children first
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. This should be a time to celebrate the achievements of the most widely ratified human rights treaty in the world, …
Human rights in refugee camps has everything to do with businesses
We live in a world where we see a vicious cycle being recreated where history repeats itself and more civilians are left harmed as a result of the higher powers. The Middle East and North Africa region …
10 things on my mind as a funder
Yesterday I had the pleasure of doing a phone interview – or more informal chat – with a senior person working in another Foundation as part of scoping out their future strategy. She asked me …
Interview: Safeena Husain, founder of Educate Girls
Safeena Husain knows exactly what she’s talking about. Herself the product of a troubled childhood and a curtailed education, she founded Educate Girls to tackle the problem of out-of-school children in India, one of three …
Public opinion is central to the modern human rights movement
In the letter heralding the establishment of Amnesty International, Peter Benenson stated that ‘…in matters such as these, governments are prepared to follow only where public opinion leads’. Eleanor Roosevelt remarked that the words of …