#peace

🌍 Global · EcoPeace Middle East

Trinational NGO uniting Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian environmentalists to restore the shared Jordan River basin.

🌍 Global · Free to Run

A nonprofit founded by an ultrarunner and human rights lawyer that uses running, hiking and climbing to build confidence, leadership and community for women and girls in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine.

🇨🇴 Colombia · Fundación Colombianitos

Fundación Colombianitos uses football, play and life-skills education to steer children from Colombia's most violence-affected communities away from conflict, addiction and recruitment.

🇮🇳 India · Jana Sanskriti Centre for Theatre of the Oppressed

Villagers across rural Bengal stage forum theatre plays that let audiences step onstage and rehearse standing up to domestic violence, child marriage and corruption.

🇨🇭 Switzerland · Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz

A Swiss association of older women sued their government over climate inaction and won the first-ever human-rights ruling on climate change.

🇲🇱 Mali · Mali Elephant Landscapes (WILD Foundation)

An all-Malian field team protects the world's last desert-adapted elephants and their 1,000km migration route by putting local communities in charge of natural resource rules.

🌍 Global · Musicians Without Borders

A Netherlands-based charity trains local musicians to use music therapy and community music-making as tools for healing in the world's conflict zones.

🇦🇹 Austria · SOS-Menschenrechte

In Linz's Haus der Menschenrechte, SOS-Menschenrechte houses unaccompanied refugee minors and asylum seekers while running Stand Up! workshops that take human-rights education into Austrian classrooms.

🇧🇪 Belgium · Klimaatzaak (VZW Klimaatzaak / Affaire Climat)

Eleven citizens turned into a nationwide lawsuit that forced Belgium's courts to order real cuts to greenhouse gas emissions.

🇸🇳 Senegal · Tostan

Empowers rural West African communities through education programs that have led thousands of villages to abandon harmful practices.

🇳🇱 Netherlands · Urgenda Foundation

A Dutch foundation sued its own government over weak climate targets and won a landmark court order to cut emissions faster.

🇨🇩 DR Congo · Virunga Foundation

Africa's oldest national park protects a third of the world's mountain gorillas while its hydropower plants create thousands of jobs for peace.