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When Women Keep Watch: Inside Plateau's Female-Led Vigilantes and Peace Networks

Oge Udegbunam

September 30, 2025 |

Social Voices |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Jos

Women in Jos, Nigeria formed cross-religious peace networks and vigilante patrols that eliminated conflict deaths between 2014-2023 in their communities, restored inter-faith relationships, and reduced crime through nighttime security operations, though they face ongoing challenges from lack of police support and systemic justice failures.

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نساء على طريق البرلمان الأردني : دعم مجتمعي لمواجهة العنف الانتخابى

شروق النسور

September 07, 2025 |

موقع عمان نت (ammannet) |

Multi-Media |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Jordan

يتطرق التقرير إلى مبادرات مدنية ورسمية ساهمت في مواجهة العنف الانتخابي ضد النساء في الأردن. تعمل المبادرات على توثيق الانتهاكات، وتوفير الدعم القانوني والنفسي للنساء، وتدريبهن على آليات المشاركة الآمنة في الانتخابات.

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Stop me, Minnesota shooter wrote. Missed clues sidelined state's red flag law.

Patrik Jonsson

September 05, 2025 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Minnesota

A Minnesota law allows both citizens and members of law enforcement to petition for someone’s guns to be taken if they’re showing signs that they may be a threat to themselves or others, otherwise known as a red flag law. But though the shooter in a 2025 attack made social media posts that could have triggered the law, no one reported these concerns, and most of the state’s 87 counties have yet to use the law at all.

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How Baltimore's violent crime rate hit an all-time low: 'This is not magic. It's hard work'

George Chidi

August 16, 2025 |

The Guardian |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

Baltimore implemented a comprehensive, data-driven violence prevention strategy that combines personalized intervention services with targeted prosecution, resulting in the city's lowest murder rate in 50 years through coordinated efforts by social workers, police, prosecutors, and community organizations.

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How German Cities Are Rethinking Women's Safety — With Taxis

Marilen Martin

July 10, 2025 |

Bloomberg CityLab |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Germany

Some German cities have created voucher programs that subsidize the cost of taking a taxi for women who feel unsafe walking or using public transit at night. In Cologne, 1,500 vouchers were used within days of their release, and Munich has more than tripled the number of vouchers it provides due to demand.

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تونس تفتتح أول مراكز إيواء العنف الأسري للنساء ذوات الإعاقة في تونس

تيبرا شيباني

June 09, 2025 |

More to Her Story |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Tunisia

يتطرق التقرير إلى افتتاح أول مراكز إيواء للعنف الأسري للنساء ذوات الإعاقة في تونس. توفر المراكز بيئة آمنة للنساء وخدمات دعم نفسي وقانوني.

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How Treating Teens' Trauma Is Stopping Violence in Chicago

Dan Gorenstein, Ryan Levi

June 05, 2025 |

Tradeoffs |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

The violence prevention program Choose to Change pairs cognitive behavioral therapy with intensive mentoring for high-risk Chicago teens, resulting in participants being 31% less likely to be arrested than their peers who did not participate in the program.

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This Nigerian nonprofit brings former foes together through the power of storytelling

Nathaniel Bivan

May 27, 2025 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Jos, Plateau

The Youth Initiative Against Violence and Human Rights Abuse, or Yiavha, brings together Nigerians from ethnic groups with a history of conflict and violence to help them find common ground through community storytelling. The organization has held more than 60 storytelling sessions in Nigeria’s Plateau state and has trained more than 300 youth to become peace ambassadors tasked with organizing their own storytelling events.

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Maryland students aim to prevent school violence with help from Sandy Hook Promise

Emely Miranda-Aguilar

May 26, 2025 |

Capital News Service Maryland |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Ijamsville, Maryland

Sandy Hook Promise spearheads prevention programs designed to help students keep their schools safer from gun violence, including Students Against Violence Everywhere, or SAVE, a network of youth-led clubs dedicated to improving school culture and encouraging student advocacy. There are more than 5,000 SAVE clubs across the country, and one club in Maryland has helped members find a sense of empowerment through getting involved.

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Networks of hope: women from Piura fight against gender violence

Scarlet Timana

May 08, 2025 |

El Colectivo 506 |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Peru, Piura

The community networks of women defenders in Piura are organized structures that, since 2018, have provided accompaniment, training, and inter-institutional coordination to victims of gender-based violence, combining psychological support, legal pathways, and economic empowerment. Since their founding, more women have reported violence, coordination between public institutions such as police and prosecutor's offices have improved, and survivors have transformed into leaders who break cycles of violence in their communities. Read this story in Spanish here: https://solu.news/mvw1

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