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2019 "Luce 24 Under 24" Recipients Awarded in New York City
New York, N.Y. More than one hundred people celebrated the unveiling of the first cohort of "Luce 24 Under 24" at The China Institute on July 24, which coincidentally was…
Beyond Skin: Norm Yip Celebrates LGBTQ Pride with Luce Support
Photography Exhibition Coincides with World Pride Week in NYC New York, N.Y. 37Tong is pleased to announce the inaugural United States exhibition of "The Asian Male: BEYO…
Filmmaker On Why Young Global Leadership is Critical Today
By Ian Gibson, 2019 Luce 24 Under 24 Award Recipient New York, N.Y. As a child, one of my favored pastimes was sifting through my father’s VHS collection of classic films…
First “Luce 24 Under 24” Awards Winners Announced for Soirée
New York, N.Y. The James Jay Dudley Luce Foundation is pleased to announce the first winners of the 2019 “Luce 24 Under 24” Awards . The awards will be presented on the e…
Reflections on Leadership from Marietta's McDonough Conference
Marietta College, Ohio. The J. Luce Foundation ( link ) is opening the Luce Leadership Centre at Caribbean Maritime University ( link ) in June, open to its 6,000 student…
Simple: Whatever Faith Tradition, It’s All About Kindness
Tawang, India. Since 2000, we have been operating charities Raising, Supporting, and soon Educating Young Global Leaders. From every corner of the world and from every fa…
STOP Fake Migrant Crisis with For-Profit Prisons, Concentration Camps
New York, N.Y. The Stewardship Report calls for an immediate STOP to Donald Trump's fake migrant crisis and the resulting number of immigrants being separated from their…
Trump's Threatened Mass Deportation: What's So, What's Not
Washington, D.C. On Monday evening, President Trump tweeted that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "will begin the process of removing the millions of illegal ali…
U.S. House Passes Emergency Funding Bill for Migrant Care Crisis
Washington, D.C. It took last-minute changes and a full-court press by top Democratic leaders, but the House passed with relative ease Tuesday a $4.5 billion emergency bo…
Human Rights Experts Denounce Trump’s Attacks On Media
New York, N.Y. The United Nations expert on free expression has condemned President Donald Trump’s repeated attacks on the press, warning that the U.S. leader’s rhetoric…
Landmark Verdict in India Scraps Law Criminalizing Homosexuality
New York, N.Y. In India, the Supreme Court has struck down a 19th century law criminalizing gay sex, bringing to a close a long drawn out battle to overturn a controversi…
U.N. Denounces Grave 'Assaults' on Palestinian People
New York, N.Y. From arbitrary detentions and deliberate deprivation, to attacks against civilians and forced displacements, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights , Ze…
U.N.: Women's Rights Face Global Pushback from Fanaticism
New York, N.Y. Women’s rights are under threat from a “backlash” of conservatism and fundamentalism around the world, a United Nation panel warned on Friday. “ Alarming p…
Creating Reasons to Live: Overcoming Gay-Bashing and Ebola in Africa
New York, N.Y. In 2017 the J. Luce Foundation awarded HIV & AIDS educator, activist and human rights defender-in-exile Ghislain Joël Nkontchou Honorable Mention for his w…
'Global Open Day' Emphasizes Afghan Women's Role in Fighting Extremism
New York, N.Y. Following a meeting with Afghan civil society representatives today in Kabul, senior UN officials stressed that securing women’s rights is essential to str…
'Philosophy is an Art of Living Together' on World Philosophy Day
New York, N.Y. Marking World Philosophy Day, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ) is encouraging people of the world to share t…
'When Cultural Heritage is Under Attack, Human Rights are Also'
New York, N.Y. The destruction of cultural heritage is a violation of human rights, a United Nations-appointed expert said today, as the international criminal tribunal b…
At U.N., Tennis Legend Says Human Rights and Sports ‘a Perfect Fit’
New York, N.Y. Tennis legend and gender equality activist Billie Jean King has had a stellar career in sports, identifying the boundaries that divide people and tearing t…
China Returns Passport to Artist, Critic Ai Weiwei
Beijing, China. Four years after his passport was seized by Beijing authorities, Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has gotten it back. Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei…
Human Rights Chief Welcomes Pfizer Decision to Bar Execution Drug
New York, N.Y. The United Nations human rights chief today warmly welcomed the initiatives announced by pharmaceutical company Pfizer to ensure that the drugs it produces…
Ireland: U.N. Experts Urge Amending Abortion Ban
New York, N.Y. A woman in Ireland who was forced to choose between carrying her foetus to term, knowing it would not survive, or seeking an abortion abroad was subjected…
Italy Hosts Child Soldiers Symposium with U.N.
New York, N.Y. The obscene issue of child soldiers is being discussed this week at an international symposium in Rome. The Italian government is hosting this important sy…
LGBT expert urges partnership to end violence and discrimination
New York, N.Y. Global partnership is needed to end discrimination and violence against the worldwide lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, a United Nat…
Nigerian Novelist in Exile Reflects on Anti-Gay Law
Malmö, Sweden. One day in January 2014, award-winning Nigerian writer and rights activist Jude Dibia woke up gasping for air. Nigeria had just passed a law criminalizing…
Protecting Cultural Heritage from Combatants and the Universal Values
New York, N.Y. Safeguarding cultural property that combatants aim to damage encompasses part of larger endeavours to defend human rights and universal values, United Nati…
U.N. Calls for ‘Better Water, Better Jobs’ on World Water Day
New York, N.Y. With nearly half of the world’s workers employed in water-related sectors, sustainable access to safe water can change lives and livelihoods, the United Na…
U.N. Calls Out Israel After Reported Take-Over of West Bank Land
New York, N.Y. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for “substantial policy changes on the ground” by Israel, voicing deep concern at reports that the…
U.N. Stresses Need for Coherent Policies to End Child Labor
New York, N.Y. With some 168 million children working in various sectors globally, the fight against child labour requires coherent policy packages to support legislation…
U.N.: WikiLeaks Founder Arbitrarily Detained by Sweden, U.K.
Geneva, Switzerland. Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks website, which published confidential diplomatic information, has been arbitrarily detained by Sweden an…
Attempt to Assist LGBT Persons Targeted by ISIS Applauded
Washington, D.C. In a statement released by the White House: The United States welcomes today’s first-ever “Arria formula” discussion by the U.N. Security Council of how…
Ban Warns of ‘Misplaced Suspicions’ of Muslim Refugees, Migrants
New York, N.Y. As last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris and Beirut continue to reverberate round the world with calls to restrict refugee and migrant movement in the nam…
Cherie Blair Foundation for Women Hosts Manhattan Soiree
By Sara Herbert-Galloway. New York, N.Y. John and Margo Catsimatidis , Francine LeFrak , and Pamela Newman hosted an exclusive reception at The Four Seasons Restaurant fo…
Concerns Grow Over Hong Kong Censorship
Hong Kong, P.R.C. In Hong Kong, where last year’s pro-democracy protests ended in a stalemate with the Beijing-backed government, there are signs of increasing state cens…
European Border Restrictions on Refugees Violate Human Rights
New York, N.Y. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned Balkan States today that border restrictions based on a refugee’s or migrant’s nationality infringed human rights, wit…
Little Hope of Change to Poor Saudi Rights Record
Washington, D.C. Saudi Arabia's human rights record has long been the subject of widespread condemnation by rights groups. But within the context of the ultra-conservativ…
U.N. Agency Urges Dominican Republic Not to Deport Haitians
New York, N.Y. The Dominican Republic must ensure that people whose citizenship was thrown into question by a 2013 ruling of the Constitutional Court will not be deported…
U.N. Launches ‘Nelson Mandela Rules’ to Better Prisons
New York, N.Y. The United Nations today launched the Revised Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, dubbed the ‘Nelson Mandela Rules,’ which Secretary-Gen…
U.N. Urges Mexico to End 'Misery' of Enforced Disappearances
New York, N.Y. Despite significant progress towards building a solid human rights framework, the Mexican Government must nevertheless “bind itself to a new sense of urgen…
U.N.: Israeli Demolition of Homes Contrary to International Law
New York, N.Y. The Israeli Government’s use of house demolition as a punitive measure in response to alleged acts of violence by Palestinians must end immediately, two Un…
Lawyers Without Borders Appoints New Chair of Executive Board
New York, N.Y. Lawyers Without Borders , an international not-for-profit focused on promoting rule of law, announced today the appointment of Anne B. Rudman as chair of t…
Photo of the Day - Gay Pride After Historic Supreme Court Ruling
Washington, D.C. Supporters of same-sex marriage in the United States won two victories Wednesday at the Supreme Court with potentially far-reaching legal and political c…
Pope on Gays: Who am I to Judge?
The Vatican, Italy. Pope Francis says gay people should be integrated into society, not marginalized, but that the Roman Catholic Church stands by its teaching that homos…
Sadly, India Moves Backwards on Human Rights
New York, N.Y. We have been very concerned at India's giant leap backwards recently in concern to gay and lesbian rights - they have re -criminalized homosexuality. This…
U.N. Human Rights Expert Urges U.S. to Limit Solitary Confinement
New York, N.Y ., Nearly one year ago Amnesty International (USA) declared that the solitary confinement of more than 3,000 California inmates in two prisons is tantamount…
Instilling Hope: First Step in Effective Development
Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Most of us agree that Pol Pot ’s despotic regime in Cambodia marked one of the darkest periods of the 20th century, with a death toll of some two mi…
First 'Davos' for Women's International Development in NYC
New York, N.Y. I met Cecilia Attias, former First Lady of France and founder and executive chair of the Cecilia Attias Foundation for It was extraordinarily successful -…
Let Us Not Waste The Limited Number of Hours We Have Left
New York, NY. 9/11 brings back haunting memories. Having buried by brother and mother almost back-to-back just before 9/11, losing all three of my life-long mentors over…
Meet a Muslim Voice of Reason: Ibrahim Ramey
Washington D.C. I first met Ibrahim Abdil-Mu'id Ramey after he delivered the plenary speech about Dr. Martin Luther King and the linkage between Dr. King's movement and t…
The Stewardship Report Announces Editorial Calendar
New York, N.Y. A bright new face has been added to the crowded Web, drawing a large readership and uploading more than 900 stories in its first twelve weeks. Still in sof…