Philanthropy rightly receives it fair share of criticism but at $2.8 billion per year, it is playing a critical role in supporting human rights around the world. This is particularly important at the present time as the open, liberal, and democratic societies which human rights help to foster are under sustained attack.

We’ve devoted a whole issue of Alliance to exploring the opportunities and challenges ahead. We talk to the Oak Foundation’s Adrian Arena about building the foundation’s major human rights programme and we discuss the Open Society Foundation’s exile to Berlin with Selmin Caliskan. We also feature views on economic and social rights, and transitional justice, from across the global south and hear about the Ford Foundation’s work in Brazil to prevent digital dis-information. All this and more here https://www.alliancemagazine.org/magazine/issue/september-2019/