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The CLIMA Fund — of which Grassroots International is a member — recently released both a series of short videos and an impact report on its 5-year anniversary of funding grassroots climate solutions.
An international campaign led by the Landless Workers Movement, Grassroots International and Friends of the MST extended the eviction moratorium in Brazil, protecting over 500,000 people.
Alice Rothchild, a longtime donor, expresses her deep concern over a series of developments that signal danger for the human rights sector globally.
Today, March 14, is the International Day of Struggle Against Dams, and For Rivers, Water and Life. We are sharing a video from our grantee the Movement of People Affected by Dams in Latin America (Movimiento de Afectados por Represas, MAR) as well as their statement for the day.
Given the hardship these families are going through now and for months to come, we are calling upon all people of conscience to take action in solidarity.
The win of the Libre Party marks the end, in the words of social movements, of the “narco-dictatorship” coup government that has been in place since 2009.
As the Honduran general elections approach, Grassroots International joins our movement partners and allies in denouncing violence, repression, and the undermining of democratic processes in Honduras.
Grassroots International joined the efforts of more than 100 philanthropy organizations and individual philanthropists to push back against attempts to criminalize six prominent Palestinian civil society organizations (CSOs).
After the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, it's more important than ever for philanthropy to fund real climate solutions led by frontline communities.
Grassroots International partner Comité de Unidad Campesina/the Peasant Unity Committee (CUC) is calling for international solidarity as Maya Q’eqchi’ communities face violent repression following peaceful protests of a mining operation.
Grassroots International joined over 700 other organizations and movements to call for real solutions to solve climate change — not a continuation of harm dressed up as “net zero” carbon budgeting. Unfortunately, the upcoming COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland...
Following the Israeli Defense Minister's attacks on Palestinian civil society, Grassroots International, together with scores of other organizations in the US and around the world, reaffirms our commitment to justice for Palestine and an end to the criminalization of Palestinian human rights groups.
Our partner La Via Campesina shares the history and continued importance of Food Sovereignty for the 25th anniversary of the concept's founding.
Now in its 13th year, the Food Sovereignty Prize is given annually on or around World Food Day to grassroots organizations advancing food sovereignty. It stands in contrast to the World Food Prize, which perpetuates the myth that we can produce our way out of hunger.
Despite being touted as a “people’s summit,” the UN Food Systems Summit is the latest attempt at the corporate takeover of the world’s food systems.
Grassroots International and 48 other civil society and philanthropic organizations have signed on to a letter to the Convention for Biological Diversity (CBD). CBD's use of "conservation" not only will not protect nature. It will lead to more displacement of the very Indigenous communities who are the best stewards for natural land and territory.
After five long years, social movements in Honduras are finally getting closer to bringing some justice to the assassination of beloved movement leader Berta Cáceres. Today, David Castillo sits on trial as a key perpetrator of her murder. But the corruption goes much deeper than Castillo. So movements have encamped outside the Supreme Court.
Memories of every previous trauma are impossible to forget because all of us in Gaza always live lacking a sense of safety. The Israeli drones have never left the sky over us between 2014 and 2021.
In the following article from the Palestine Chronicle, Jamal Juma from our partner Stop the Wall calls for solidarity at a critical moment for Palestine.
