#peace

🌍 Global · EcoPeace Middle East

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

🇷🇼 Rwanda · Forest of Hope Association (FHA)

A Rwandan-led NGO has regrown more than two-thirds of the Gishwati forest that genocide-era displacement helped destroy, turning restoration into a path to reconciliation and livelihoods.

🌍 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.

🌍 Global · Gola Rainforest Conservation (GRC-LG)

Declared a Transboundary Peace Park by Sierra Leone and Liberia after their civil wars, the Gola rainforest now channels UN peacebuilding funds into joint conservation across a once-contested border.

🇮🇳 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.

🌍 Global · Réseau Billital Maroobé (RBM)

Founded by herders themselves in 2003, Réseau Billital Maroobé unites pastoral organizations across nine West and Central African countries to keep cross-border transhumance corridors open and defend mobile grazing as the Sahel's rangelands dry out.

🇨🇭 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.

🇹🇴 Tonga · Civil Society Forum of Tonga

Tonga sponsors a Canadian company's claim to mine the Pacific abyss; Tongan civil society has spent six years asking its own government to withdraw, and is now petitioning the monarch.

🇸🇳 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.