When President Daniel Ortega returned to power in 2006, church figures supported him. Violent repression after the 2018 protests has soured the relationship and made clergy targets for intimidation.
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The board is supposed to stop OpenAI from veering from its mission of building technology that benefits humanity.
Government sanctions against Hamas, which the US and the European Union consider a terrorist group, mean that aid groups are not able to directly work with Hamas.
The politics of delivering aid in war zones are messy, the ethics fraught and the logistics daunting. But getting everything right is essential − and in this instance could save many Gazans’ lives.
Hospitals have been destroyed, and doctors and health care staff killed. Gaza’s health services may take years to recover, warns a Palestinian health specialist.
Workers’ power is being recast as precarious workers in Africa experiment with new ways of organising in the digital age
College students learn about people who have dedicated their professional lives to reducing the threat of violence – and their successes and failures.
These crackdowns are occurring around the world in countries that are becoming less free because of what’s known as ‘democratic backsliding.’
A scholar of humanitarianism sums up what she saw on the ground during a five-week research trip to Poznań, Lublin, Warsaw, Krakow and several smaller cities along the Poland-Ukraine border.
Russia has used similar tactics in both countries, including bombings that flatten homes, schools, hospitals and key infrastructure. The humanitarian needs are vast.
Nearly all of the 129 aid workers killed on the job in 2021 were from the countries where they lost their lives.
To date, the program has provided nearly $10 million to roughly 137,000 of the country’s poorest citizens.
The International Olympic Committee oversees several humanitarian initiatives. But it avoids letting human rights concerns interfere with the Games, even in countries with rampant violations.
Nine agencies, most of them faith-based, are resettling Afghan evacuees in the US. But the system is under strain.
A scholar from Afghanistan outlines what more than $150 billion in assistance did and didn’t accomplish in two decades following the arrival of U.S. troops un 2001.
Large-scale tree-planting projects are politically popular and media-friendly, but without effective planning and long-term management, they can do more harm than good.
Civil society activists responding to the COVID-19 social crisis face important challenges and tensions. They should tackle these choices head-on as they develop longer-term plans.
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Professor of Globalization, Copenhagen Business School
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Director, Human Rights Institute, Associate Prof. Social Work and Human Rights, University of Connecticut
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