Power Up! Annual Report 2021
Despite a turbulent 2021, women made some big moves. Learn about how Power Up! supported women's organizing and strategies for transformative change. Power Up! Annual Report 2021</a
Malawi: Women practice organic farming to sustain livelihoods and protect the environment
The women organized in the Our Bodies, Our Lives (OBOL) Movement in Mzimba South East, Khosolo in northern Malawi have long faced the challenges of precarious livelihoods and lack of access to basic needs. But when the COVID-19 pandemic and…
“Seeding by Ceding”
JASS is excited to announce that we have been awarded a one-time unrestricted gift by author and philanthropist, Mackenzie Scott. This substantive contribution comes at a crucial time in the world when philanthropy needs to be ambitious, imaginative, and expansive…
Why anti-racist struggles are critical for our liberation
An interview with Phumi Mtetwa, Regional Director, JASS Southern Africa To mark 21 March, The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (also observed as Human Rights Day in South Africa), JASS sat down with Phumi Mtetwa, Regional Director of JASS…
In solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community of Kakuma camp
In the early hours of March 15 2021, two ‘houses’ occupied by LGBTQ+ human rights defenders were torched in Kakuma Block 13, a refugee camp in Kenya, leaving 2 LGBTQ+ members of the community with 2nd-degree burns. The police and…
Together We Can: Power Up! Baseline Report (2021)
Women in Power Up! countries and regions are living in a time of precarity that severely limits their ability to access their rights and places them at risk. This baseline report has been prepared on behalf of the Power Up!…
We need to imagine and build something different – together
As we end another turbulent year, we mourn the recent loss of bell hooks. Her writings, which explore the intersecting oppressions of gender, race, and class – in addition to her recognition that art, history, sexuality, psychology, spirituality, and love…
Women defending land and life: The story of Amadiba Crisis Committee
JASS Southern Africa is excited to invite you to our regional dialogue “Women Defending Land and Life.”
We play, we express ourselves, we accompany each other: a playbook for playing and getting along with each other
JASS Mesoamerica’s playbook is full of exercises for centering play as part of wellbeing and care
