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I spent the last few days of 2024 in relative quiet. I was tired. All I could do was think and rest and then think some more. The privilege of being able to pause and recharge was not lost on me, and I was grateful for the chance to reflect.…
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Earlier this month, we marked an important milestone by hosting our first-ever climate reparations camp in Minnesota. This was a pivotal moment for our U.S. office. The camp brought together 25 climate activists and community leaders, with a special focus on those from diaspora and immigrant communities, to discuss urgent issues…
Blog Post / Emergency Response
76 years. Today marks 76 years since the displacement, depopulation, and despair of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, otherwise known as the Nakba, meaning “the catastrophe.” 76 years later and effectively nowhere, and no one, in Gaza is safe. Airstrikes are intensifying, thousands are yet again fleeing, and aid delivery…
Blog Post / Emergency Response
I woke up today to hundreds of messages about the genocide case brought by South Africa against Israel. Some were calling it a victory, an unequivocal legal demand for Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza. Some were expressing disappointment that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) did not call for…
Insight / Emergency Response
Today marks the sixth day of a temporary pause in the most recent hostilities between Israel and Hamas. It is also International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. After the horrific attack on October 7, in which approximately 1,200 Israelis were killed and 200 taken hostage, the Israeli government…
Blog Post / Politics & Economics
I was disappointed, on multiple levels, to hear about the Biden administration’s nomination of Ajay Banga, a private equity executive with no experience in public service, to head the World Bank. First, the U.S. should have no real right to unilaterally name the World Bank President – it does so…
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After UN Women announced a partnership with BlackRock to promote gender lens investing, the outcry was predictably deafening. Hundreds of feminist organizations signed a letter demanding the repudiation of the partnership. Why? Because BlackRock, with nearly $10 trillion in assets under management, has a penchant for prioritizing profit over human…
Insight / Politics & Economics
“There is no launch party for decay.” I read these words last month, written by a Sri Lankan reflecting on how it felt to live through collapse. He talked about how collapse doesn’t affect everyone the same way. For some, the collapse is clear, it has brought them suffering and…
Insight / Emergency Response
This blog is co-authored with Yolette Etienne, ActionAid Haiti Country Director, and Laura Hurtado, ActionAid Guatemala Country Director As the United States grapples with the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing epidemic of police violence, we cannot forget about the 30,000 people still held in U.S. immigration detention centers. The Trump…
Insight / Women's Rights
By Niranjali Amerasinghe & Jenna Farineau “Women’s rights are human rights.” Famous words delivered by then First Lady Hillary Clinton in 1995 at the Fourth World Conference for Women. The conference is best known for resulting in the Beijing Action Plan, which not only recognized women’s rights as human rights…
