News
This is where we keep a collection of articles, videos, podcasts, etc. If you have an example of positive systemic change that is highlighted in an article, podcast, or some other medium, please share it by sending us an email at Foundation4systemicchange@gmail.com.
2024 Fred Ross Student Journalism
Competition Winners Announced by the National Scholastic Press Association and the Foundation for Systemic Change
The National Scholastic Press Association and Foundation for Systemic Change have announced the winners of the second annual Fred Ross Student Journalism Competition, recognizing high school journalists whose work addresses systemic issues in their communities. Read the full press release here.
The World Can’t Keep Ignoring The Resurging Genocide in Darfur
John Heffernan, founder of the Foundation for Systemic Change, warns that Sudan's Darfur region is facing a dire humanitarian crisis, with widespread violence, famine, and mass displacement, calling for urgent global intervention. Read the full piece on The Hill here.
First Annual Fred Ross Student Journalism
Competition Winners Announced by the National Scholastic Press Association and the Foundation for Systemic Change
The 2023 Fred Ross competition launches today; High school journalists covering of systemic change in their communities encouraged to participate. Read Press Release Here.
Systemic Change Reporting
Finalists for the Fred Ross Journalism Competition have been chosen for the 2022-2023 school year. Read the full press release here.
There is no “quick fix” on the Path to Meaningful Systemic Change
A global health crisis killing over one million in the U.S. alone; racially motivated massacres in the US; authoritarian regimes threatening democracy across the globe — these are but a sampling of human made disasters giving us more than enough reason to fear that the world is a complete mess.
A Need For Justice in Sudan
Reports of former Sudanese dictator Hassan al-Bashir being delivered to the Hague based International Criminal Court highlight the role of justice and accountability. Upon Al-Bashir's arrest, former Physician for Human Rights investigators, John Heffernan and Jennifer Leaning, who presented their findings from their Darfur investigations to the ICC several years ago, called for his extradition to the Hague tribunal.
The Widening Gyre
Here we tell of two cities, two eras in Afghanistan. The country remains in our hearts as both beautiful and strangely terrifying. JL, as a semi-hitch-hiker in 1969, visited her mother who had just started a two-year stint teaching in the American School in Kabul. Thirty-two years later she would again visit but accompanied by JH as human rights investigators with Physicians for Human Rights USA. We were sent to assess violations of international humanitarian law during the months following the US invasion of the country in the wake of 9–11.
Serbian Ministers Urged to Resign Over Child Neglect Report
A damning report alleging horrific neglect and abuse in Serbian social protection homes has prompted demands that the Prime Minister and and Social Affairs Minister resign.
Warlords' crimes : Secrets of an Afghan grave
Seventeen Years Later and Little Systemic Change to show for the billions invested in Afghanistan