From injured workers to racialized communities, women to LGBTQ+ groups, protest has historically driven government action and policy towards social change. For many, protest is the only means by which they have access to key decision-makers.
As climate change accelerates, so too do the number of environmental crises non-profits respond to. Rethinking the charitable sector’s role in prevention could change that.
Across Morocco, tens of thousands of people scrape by on the margins, sorting through garbage for survival. Informal waste pickers, many of them women and children, are essential to the country’s recycling system, yet they remain legally invisible, unprotected, and stigmatized.
International organizations call on governments to allow them to provide the necessities of life and avert an even greater humanitarian cataclysm in Gaza. Without food and water, hundreds of thousands could die.