Jul 31, 2022 | Headlines, News & Updates
As the climate crisis deepens, with massive heatwaves killing untold number of people, and pregnant women and infants being harmed by even the current rise in world temperature, many are wondering how the world came to such a state. Many nonprofits have been touting...
Apr 21, 2021 | fertility rates, Inequality, Taking Action
In the 20th Century world population growth exploded. That growth is continuing, and fundamentally driving massive inequity of wealth and power between the rich and poor as the conditions of our birth hang upon us throughout our lives. We are getting more crowded and...
Dec 16, 2020 | News & Updates
Having Kids is an international human rights organization dedicated to improving family planning systems worldwide with a simple idea: Every child has a fundamental human right to a Fair Start in life, ecologically and socially, which overrides all competing...
Sep 3, 2025 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Taking Action
The International Criminal Court (ICC) and International Court of Justice (ICJ) are under mounting pressure to effectively address both Israel’s ongoing conflicts, war crimes by unaccountable authoritarian regimes, and the climate crisis. Their work to date has had...
Sep 3, 2025 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Taking Action
Today the Fair Start Movement and an emerging coalition called the Truth Alliance filed a notice of preemptive standards with the California Attorney General seeking full justice in matters, like consumer fraud, impacting the futures of the most vulnerable children. A...
Aug 13, 2025 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Headlines, News & Updates
Do you believe children deserve a fair start in life? Prioritizing that is the most effective way to ensure a better world. The idea of an equity override is about putting fairness at the center when the strict letter of the law falls short. At the World Court...
May 8, 2025 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Seeds for the Future, Taking Action
May 8, 2025 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Seeds for the Future
Dear Friend, Join Fair Start Movement, Rejoice Africa Foundation, and partners and allies for a virtual dialogue with Uganda’s NGO Bureau: May 15, 2015, at 9:00 a.m. ET. Register at Fairstartmovement.org/NextGen.We’ll explore bold, collaborative strategies to...
Apr 17, 2025 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Seeds for the Future, Taking Action
Melinda French Gates recently said this about what the wealthy owe others: “Great wealth does not shield you,” French Gates says. “I have an absurd amount of wealth and I’m doing my very best to give it away. … But what I want people to know is...
Apr 7, 2025 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Seeds for the Future, Taking Action, Uncategorized
A Voice From Mwesigye Robert, Zahara Nabakoza , Esther Afolaranmi and Betty Martin-Finneran. The voices from Africa, and of black communities in the United States, are rising against the fundamentally illegal standards that violate children’s rights in poor...
Mar 25, 2025 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Taking Action
This year, Fairstartmovement.org is launching the Tell the Truth campaign, calling on prominent social justice figures to acknowledge their failures as the climate crisis worsens and claims millions of lives. At the root of these failures is the neglect of a...
Mar 25, 2025 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Taking Action
The climate crisis exposes a fundamental problem in public interest work: how can a system that perpetuates inequality and environmental destruction be truly in the public interest? Millions will die from heat waves, yet many charities and funders claim to be helping...
