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  • From Risk to Rescue: Keeping Girls Safe In The Climate-Hit Sundarbans

    BIRD's community-based anti-trafficking network has used vigilance hubs, local partnerships, and survivor-focused rehabilitation to rescue over 500 girls. Building community trust has made families turn to them first when children go missing, reducing trafficking rates in climate-vulnerable regions.

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  • Family Planning Expands Women's Choices in Zimbabwe

    The Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council implemented a comprehensive national family planning program that offers integrated reproductive health services delivered through multiple channels including local clinics, mobile outreach units, community health workers, and youth-friendly centers. The program provides access to contraceptives, counseling, and peer education to address maternal mortality and unplanned pregnancy rates. Over the past decade, maternal mortality has dropped by 78%, and unintended pregnancies have also significantly decreased.

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  • Youth and adolescent corners transform lives in Otuke, but donor exit sparks fears for the future

    Health centers like Barjobi Health Center III offer youth and teens judgment and stigma-free sexual and reproductive healthcare services, as well as opportunities to connect with each other over games and activities. However, these youth-centric health centers are facing closures and significant budget cuts as the biggest funding provider, USAID, has phased out.

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  • Ghana's Anti-Witchcraft Bill: Reintegration offers hope as survivors urge swift passage

    While locals wait for an anti-witchcraft bill to pass to provide protection for women against unproven accusations of witchcraft, several organizations are working to close “witch camps” and help women return home to their families. So far, these organizations’ combined efforts have led to the closure of two of the six camps in the northern part of the country.

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  • Restore Justice: Local Arbitration Helps Reconcile What Courts Can't

    The salishi (local arbitration) system operated by women's collectives in West Bengal successfully resolves about 74% of domestic violence and family disputes through community-based mediation. This has resulted in the encouragement of people following legal routes.

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  • Beyond Rhetoric: Assessing Lagos DSVA's Record on GBV Prevention and Response.

    The Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA) provides comprehensive survivor support services including legal aid, medical care, shelters, and prevention programs, successfully building public trust and securing 140+ convictions while reaching 6.3 million people through awareness campaigns, though significant gaps remain between the 8,692 reported cases and actual access to justice and support services.

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  • The Nigerian Women Who Went from Labourers for Hire to Landowners

    Twenty women in Kaduna, Nigeria formed a cooperative in 2015 that pooled their farm labor earnings to collectively purchase land, transforming them from hired laborers earning ₦2,000-₦10,000 per day into independent landowners who now harvest enough to support their families' education and healthcare while contributing food to their community.

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  • برنامج “المثمر”.. خارطة طريق لإدماج النساء القرويات في التنمية الزراعية

    يبرز التقرير دور برنامج "المثمر" في توفير التدريب التقني والأدوات الرقمية للنساء القرويات العاملات في المجال الزراعي في المغرب، وهو ما يساهم في دعم الإنتاج والتسويق وتوسيع مشاركة النساء في التنمية الزراعية وتحسين ظروفهن المعيشية.

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  • Documenting the History Trump Wants to Erase

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

    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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