Four million women work in Bangladesh's fast fashion factories. Awaj Foundation What are you wearing? There’s a pretty good chance that the shirt on your back or the pants in your closet
For the country's four million garment workers, this is an especially fraught time. But some workers and factories are finding solutions.
As the virus spreads, one doctor is raising an army of volunteers to prepare the health infrastructure for the battle of a lifetime.
Dr. Kongkiat consults with hospital staff in Phuket, Thailand. Hospital OS Kongiat Kespechara is an internist and the founder of Hospital OS, whose open-source management software for hospitals and clinics is in
Small businesses contribute nearly half of the national GDP and employ 47% of the private sector workforce. Read how employee ownership offers a path to economic resiliency.
Alison Lingane is co-founder of Project Equity, a national leader in the movement to harness employee ownership to maintain thriving local business communities, retain selling owners’ legacies, and address income
Christina Fialho (center) with actors of "Orange Is The New Black," the Netflix hit that featured ... [+] Freedom for Immigrants’ crisis hotline. The hotline was later suspended by ICE,
More than 50,000 immigrants are detained every day in the U.S. in county jails and for-profit prisons. Read how Freedom for Immigrants is working to change this.
Open source innovators César García Sáez (top) and David Cuartiellies (right) created Coronavirus ... [+] Makers Forum. Ashoka As hospitals prepare to take in more patients with the coronavirus, they are in
As hospitals prepare to take in more patients with the coronavirus, they are in acute need of life-saving equipment: ventilators that help patients breathe, face masks and protective gear.
Veterinarian and public health advocate Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka on why wildlife health and human health go hand in hand, and how we can prevent the next epidemic.
Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka works at the intersection of animal and human health - with a focus on... [+] Uganda's famous mountain gorillas. CTPH Conservationist, veterinarian, epidemiologist, and health worker in the villages near wild
Adam Foss, founder of Prosecutor Impact. Ashoka How do we fix mass incarceration in the U.S.? It's a system that puts 2.3 million Americans behind bars, far more per capita than
Ending mass incarceration in the U.S. starts with changing the culture among prosecutors, says Adam Foss, founder of Prosecutor Impact.
"Social inclusion is the biggest gap the climate movement is not addressing," says Ashoka Fellow Wietse van der Werf.