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Humanity United is a foundation dedicated to cultivating the conditions for enduring peace and freedom.
As we wind down for 2025, we’re reflecting on some of the impactful moments we’ve had this year:

📋 Launching our Racial Justice & Equity strategy through deep collaboration with partners and communities, to build solidarity, shift power, and center the wellbeing of Black and Brown people.

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December 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Released on Human Rights Day, this article highlights how human rights abuses are often the result of systemic failures—from modern trafficking to denied access to justice.
On International Human Rights Day, a Spotlight on the Systems Failing the Vulnerable
Today, on International Human Rights Day, accountability is our focus.
nimjn.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Improvements to Thailand’s seafood sector in the last decade demonstrates how system-level change can reduce some of the most severe forms of forced labor and improve conditions across large parts of the supply chain, even as enforcement remains uneven.

Read more: https://bit.ly/4oeQ3N9
December 22, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Explore Riot to Repair: Community Archives on Media and Narrative Power, a powerful new project created with the Charlotta Bass Journalism and Justice Lab: https://mediareparations.org/riot-to-repair-community-archives-media-narrative-power/
Riot to Repair: Community Archives on Media and Narrative Power - Media 2070
mediareparations.org
December 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Discover how 10 years of reform reshaped Thailand’s seafood industry.

Bold actions, committed leaders, civil society pressure, and strategic philanthropy drove change—while challenges remained.

Read our report for the full story: https://www.policysolve.com/resources/retrospective
December 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
On #InternationalMigrantsDay, we reaffirm our commitment to accelerate the transformation of systems that are fair and just for migrants.

With record levels of displacement seen this year, this work has never been more important, and we thank our committed partners for the work that they do.
December 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
In a new article by @newhumanitarian.bsky.social, the @unhcr.org Director of International Protection stresses the importance of distinguishing between refugees and migrants and how this language can help to reduce harmful narratives that undermine asylum.
Can talking about migrants and returns protect refugee rights?
Can talking about migrants and returns protect refugee rights? Unpacking UNHCR’s new “route-based” strategy.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org
December 18, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Beyond Trafficking and Slavery have announced their closing after 11 years.
Farewell, from Beyond Trafficking and Slavery
After 11 years of publishing, the team at Beyond Trafficking and Slavery is moving on to new projects. Thank you for joining us!
www.opendemocracy.net
December 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Sri Lankan garment worker, Paramsivam Pushpalatha, died in October after a Brandix factory that supplies for Victoria’s Secret refused her request to leave a shift early to seek medical attention. 1/2
@afwa.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 12:17 AM
“We are used to being uncomfortable.”

At #BuildPeace2025, we experienced something different: a gathering designed with care, accessibility, and healing at its core.

Our latest reflection explores how intentional spaces can reshape peacebuilding itself: https://bit.ly/48UgyBZ
December 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
A new cookbook by @hrresilience.bsky.social shares recipes on care and resistance from activists across the world.
https://www.hrresilience.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/The-Activist-Wellbeing-Cookbook_FINAL.pdf
www.hrresilience.org
December 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Members of our Public Engagement portfolio’s IJAM and Communications teams attended the Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC) in Kuala Lumpur. Read our blog for key takeaways on collaboration, community, and the power of convening within investigative journalism.
The Power of Convening & the 3 C’s
humanityunited.org
December 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Beyond Trafficking and Slavery have announced their closing after 11 years.
Farewell, from Beyond Trafficking and Slavery
After 11 years of publishing, the team at Beyond Trafficking and Slavery is moving on to new projects. Thank you for joining us!
www.opendemocracy.net
December 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Efforts to reduce forced labor and human trafficking in Thailand’s seafood sector between 2014 and 2024 were shaped by seven foundational conditions for change.

These conditions didn’t guarantee reform, but they made progress possible.

Read more: https://www.policysolve.com/resources/retrospective
December 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Human Rights Day reminds us we all have a role to play. Protect what matters. Your actions make a difference.

Thank you People's Postcode Lottery players for supporting our work defending human rights. 💙
December 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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We’re back with another year of #Write4Rights!

This International Human Rights Day, join #W4R25, the world’s biggest human rights event where hundreds of thousands of people around the world come together to protect the rights of others: amn.st/633227f5xC ✍️
December 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
This #HumanRightsDay, we celebrate the essentials that shape our shared humanity.

This year's theme “Human Rights: Our Everyday Essentials” reminds us that equality, justice, freedom and dignity are core values, not ambitious aspirations.
December 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Together with Humanity United, we commissioned a systems-level analysis of a decade of change in Thailand’s seafood industry. The system still grapples with forced labour, but has successfully addressed many of the most egregious abuses.
Find out more:
HU Seafood Retrospective
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www.policysolve.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Journalists face intimidation, bans, smearing, and even deportation for doing their jobs. These attacks undermine accountability, transparency, and the foundation of a healthy democracy.

Read more from @camanpour.bsky.social in @theguardian.com dian.com.
‘We are a vital pillar in society’: Christiane Amanpour on the threat to journalism - speech extract | Christiane Amanpour
We all need to stand together and make ourselves heard and seen and felt in this fight
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Peacebuilding is more urgent than ever but funding is drying up. Despite this, communities worldwide are stepping in, driving locally led peace efforts & innovating beyond traditional aid. This is a powerful reminder that peace work must evolve & stay rooted in communities.
https://bit.ly/4ag4Qnq
Peace in an aid-starved world
International aid cuts mean that funding for essential peacekeeping work is drying up. Anthony Langat reports from Nairobi on how the sector is responding.
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December 2, 2025 at 6:33 PM
A new @financialtimes.com investigation uncovers the human cost of the global tuna industry — and the exploitation migrant workers face. It links forced labor indicators directly to products sold in supermarkets. Read more: https://bit.ly/3K9G4uP

https://bit.ly/4pxRxDp
The dark truth behind supermarket tuna
Major retailers are selling tuna from fisheries where crews say they are exploited and abused
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November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
ℹ️ Please note: Our Latin America Webinar has moved to December 10, 2025

Join Humanity United’s Peacebuilding webinars to explore the recently published framework, Pathways to Peace: A Framework for Engagement for the Next Evolution of Peacebuilding. Join us in:
November 28, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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🐟 A new investigation from @data.ft.com reveals that major UK retailers are selling tuna linked to exploitation.

Tuna vessels roam the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans, dominating global tuna catches that end up on our plates. However, migrant crews face brutal and inhumane conditions on board.
November 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Thailand’s seafood sector has faced a decade of change.

An independent report with @freedomfund.bsky.social analyzes 10 years of reforms, what enabled or blocked progress, how change unfolded and the outcomes for workers and global supply chains.

https://bit.ly/4oeQ3N9
November 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
“We refuse to celebrate a silence that smells of smoke.”

Nour ElAssy’s article reflects on life in Gaza and the West Bank after the recent ceasefire, showing that the war has not ended—only its tempo has changed.

True peace and freedom requires much more than a temporary pause in violence.
The war in Gaza didn’t end. It only changed tempo
Journalist Nour ElAssy writes about the false promise of Gaza’s ceasefire and the need for freedom in order to achieve real peace.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM