On the frontlines of climate action environmental and human rights defenders in Tamil Nadu combine traditional knowledge with legal and technical skills to protect ecosystems that sustain us all.

In the June 2025 issue of Alliance magazine, Fund CEO @gabucher.bsky.social joins Ashif Shaikh of People’s Courage International and Yasmin Madan of Co-Impact to reflect on how philanthropy can shift power, deepen trust, and support systems change. Here are six takeaways from their discussion.

Analysing the tendency for military/security responses to systemic challenges of climate and biodiversity crises compounding challenges to civic space and human rights at launch of report Climate Emergency and the Future of Civic Space @LSE Conflict and Civicness Research Group

2024 was a year of reckoning, testing the integrity of democratic institutions and the principles of international human rights and humanitarian law. With more rigor and urgency than ever, governments should respect and defend human rights. bit.ly/4gUvG5f #Rights2025

After a year of global turbulence and crises, 2025 offers both new challenges and opportunities for human rights defenders. Fund President and CEO @gabucher.bsky.social reflects on the current state of human rights and shares her outlook for the coming year.

Visionary from @anandwrites.bsky.social "When I look down at the ground of the present right now, I feel depressed. If I lift my head to the horizon, I see a different picture. This is not the chaos of the beginning of something. This is the chaos of the end of something." the.ink/p/january-6-...

What comes next for Syria’s women? A revolution that doesn’t free them is no revolution at all www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

On #HumanRightsDay we honour activists like Leni working courageously and creatively to achieve change in the Philippines

Syrians must be at the centre of this transition & the international community must urgently support the victims of the Assad government’s atrocities and help them to secure justice & reparations for crimes under international law. Read more: www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releas...

After over five decades of repression & injustice, the people of Syria finally have an opportunity to live free of fear with their rights respected. Now is the time to break free from the violence of the past & fully respect everyone's human rights.

‘Beyond our dreams’: exiled Syrian activists set sights on returning home Today we dare to hope that a new Syria will be shaped by courageous activists who refused to give up even in the darkest moments