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  • 7 solutions that could help stop rape on the night shift

    June 30, 2015 |

    Reveal |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    The night shift janitor is an easy target. Working in isolation, cleaners across the country say they have been harassed, assaulted and raped by supervisors and co-workers while tidying office buildings, shopping malls and universities, as our investigation exposed.

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  • Teaching women self-defence still the best way to reduce sexual assaults: study

    June 10, 2015 |

    The Globe and Mail |

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    Response Location: Canada, Calgary, Alberta

    In the debate over how to reduce sexual assault on university campuses, proposing self-defense classes for women is controversial. But, according to new landmark Canadian research, it works.

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  • Swedish sex education has time for games and mature debate

    June 05, 2015 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Sweden, Gnesta

    The United Kingdom’s teen birthrate is as high as 19.7 births per 1,000 women; one contributing factor is that sex education is not a requirement and can span only a day. Gnesta in Sweden offers a four to five week course on comprehensive sex education with a curriculum that makes the topic enjoyable, informative, and sensitive. As a result, the teen birthrate is only 5.2 per 1,000.

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  • Sustainability Pioneers: Becoming Energy Independent

    May 12, 2015 |

    Sustainability Pioneers |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Germany, Saerbeck

    Saerbeck, Germany is setting the standard for sustainable energy use and the reduction of their carbon footprint through a series of projects. Through these projects, private and public buildings as well as farms have installed community owned solar power and transparency around the central heating plant has increased to help inform the community of ways to make less environmentally harmful decisions.

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  • Overkill

    May 11, 2015 |

    The New Yorker |

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    Response Location: United States, McAllen, Texas

    An investigation reveals a startling percentage of medical procedures provided in the United States are unnecessary or inappropriate - harming patients physically as well as financially. This "profit-maximizing medical culture" can be countered by incentivizing health care facilities to eliminate needless procedures, federal crackdowns, and increasing access to information for patients.

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  • How One Hospital Brought Its C-Section Rate Down In A Hurry

    May 10, 2015 |

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    Response Location: United States, Newport Beach, California

    Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, under pressure from the insurance network to lower maternity costs, used a number of tools to lower the rate of cesarean sections done. The changes not only helped drastically reduce costs, but created a better, safer birth outcomes for patients.

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  • This Iraqi couple fled ISIS but face another enemy in the US — diabetes

    May 08, 2015 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, San Diego, California

    Diabetes hits US immigrant communities especially hard, with genetics and higher-calorie diets explaining just part of it. Support groups help immigrants with diabetes to find a way to eat healthy in the American high-calorie system.

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  • The Secret Lives of Homeless Students

    May 05, 2015 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Homeless and impoverished kids still have the chance to receive a college education, they just need to have the confidence that they can do so and a little pushing from outside forces. The author shares her own story of accomplishing just that.

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  • In sexual misconduct, data offer limited guidance

    April 13, 2015 |

    Yale Daily News |

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    Response Location: United States, New Haven, Connecticut

    As campuses across the country race to address a burgeoning nationwide conversation about sexual assault, policymakers, politicians, university counselors and students alike are faced with a lack of quantitative information. But Yale University has taken significant steps to collect and distribute information that may finally change the toxic culture of campus sexual assault.

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  • Teaching citizens how to shoot better video when they witness brutality

    April 10, 2015 |

    PBS NewsHour |

    Multi-Media |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    With human injustices affecting people on the streets around the world, camera phones have become important tools to document crimes. However, the video may not adequately capture the crime to be persuasive in court. The global organization WITNESS has formed as Video As Evidence Program to instruct citizens how to best document crimes with their cameras so that the evidence will stand in court.

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