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Family Planning Strengthens Agency for Women, Youth in Zimbabwe

Audrey Galawu

October 07, 2025 |

Social Voices |

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Response Location: Zimbabwe

The Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council focuses on improving maternal health outcomes by providing reproductive health and family planning resources, including contraception and educational counseling, at clinics, local health facilities, and community organizations. Since 2010, the country’s maternal mortality rate has fallen and the rate of married women using modern contraceptives has reached 69%.

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Documenting the History Trump Wants to Erase

Isa Farfan

September 30, 2025 |

Hyperallergic |

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Response Location: United States

Volunteer groups such as Citizen Historians and Save Our Signs are documenting artifacts and displays at museums and national parks as the Trump administration moves forward with plans to modify or remove vital historical information. So far, Citizen Historians has taken more than 31,000 photographs in the Smithsonian museum system, while Save Our Signs has collected more than 10,000 photos of signs in national parks.

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The Anti-Trump Strategy That's Actually Working

Michael Scherer

September 02, 2025 |

The Atlantic |

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Response Location: United States

During President Donald Trump’s second term in office, organizations such as Democracy Forward and Democracy Defenders Fund have pulled together attorneys, public-interest groups, unions, and political operatives to file legal challenges to the administration’s sweeping executive orders. As of the end of August, 130 of the 384 cases filed have led to Trump policies being at least partially blocked, including cuts to various government agencies.

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Plateau Farmers Turn to Land Documents to Reclaim Their Fields Amid Violence

Johnstone Kpilaakaa

August 29, 2025 |

HumAngle |

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Response Location: Nigeria

The Norwegian Refugee Council's land documentation project helped over 2,000 farmers in Plateau State obtain formal land tenure documents, providing legal security and reducing land disputes, but cannot protect them from ongoing violent attacks that continue to threaten their lives and livelihoods.

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'Survivors deserve better': State support needed to expand Maine's rape kit tracking pilot

Daniel Lampariello

August 22, 2025 |

WGME-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Maine

Maine's rape kit tracking pilot program, designed to give sexual assault survivors more control in their investigations, works like package tracking. Victims receive a postcard with a kit number after evidence collection and can check the status of their kit online.

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Fifty Years After Mount Laurel, Affordable Housing Is Gaining Ground in New Jersey

Roshan Abraham

August 21, 2025 |

Next City |

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Response Location: United States, New Jersey

In 2024, New Jersey passed a new law that formalized longstanding requirements that municipalities periodically submit affordable housing plans to the state. The law also created a new mediation program for municipalities that want to dispute the state’s calculation of its affordable housing requirements, and the new system has helped cut down on lawsuits that slow down the process of getting new housing approved.

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Rooftop Solar Power Is Struggling to Take Off in Hong Kong. What Went Wrong?

Selena Liang

August 08, 2025 |

The Xylom |

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Response Location: Hong Kong

The Hong Kong Feed-in Tariff (FiT) Scheme is an ongoing government program that incentivizes rooftop solar adoption by allowing individuals and organizations to sell solar-generated electricity back to utility companies at rates higher than what customers pay for regular electricity.

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The warning labels that could be coming for your crisps

Zano Kunene

July 31, 2025 |

Bhekisisa |

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Response Location: Chile

In 2016, Chile implemented warning labels on food packaging to alert consumers when a product was high in sugar, salt, saturated fat or artificial sweeteners as a way to warn and deter them from purchasing unhealthy foods. After implementing these labels, locals bought less unhealthy products, and manufacturers began using less unhealthy ingredients, inspiring other countries, like South Africa, to implement similar practices.

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New App Alerts Users to Rising Rivers and Streams

Ken Picard

July 02, 2025 |

Seven Days |

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Response Location: United States, Vermont

RiverAware, an app that uses real-time data from a national network of gauges, has helped citizens, first responders, floodplain managers, scientists, and recreational users such as paddlers and anglers access river-flow data, informing or alerting communities as to when it's time to evacuate or seek higher ground. The data is aggregated from more than 13,000 stream-gauging stations around the country maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Bureau of Reclamation, the Bureau of Land Management and the National Weather Service.

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Despite DEI pushback, guides along Boston's Freedom Trail widen the lens of inclusion

Paul Singer

June 23, 2025 |

GBH |

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Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

Amid national attempts to roll back diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, tour leaders in Boston are making a concerted effort to highlight historical information about people from all backgrounds, from Indigenous history to important LGBTQ+ figures. One such tour, the Rainbow Revolutionaries tour, has been so popular that organizers have had to schedule additional sessions.

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