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  • Denver's Food Forests Provide Free Fruit While Greening the Environment

    September 29, 2025 |

    Civil Eats |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    Denver Urban Gardens transformed vacant urban lots into 26 food forests containing over 1,200 fruit trees and berry bushes, providing free fresh produce to communities while reducing local temperatures by 5-15 degrees and increasing tree canopy coverage in one of America's least forested cities.

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  • Budgeting for Equality: How Local Councils in Cameroon are Including Women

    September 24, 2025 |

    Social Voices |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Cameroon

    Gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) in Cameroon requires local councils to include women in budget planning and allocate resources to meet their specific needs, resulting in over 500 women in Tiko and Limbe councils gaining access to market infrastructure improvements, vocational training, agricultural support, and business grants that have enabled them to generate income and support their families.

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  • نساء على طريق البرلمان الأردني : دعم مجتمعي لمواجهة العنف الانتخابى

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

    August 29, 2025 |

    HumAngle |

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    800-1500 Words

    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

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

    August 16, 2025 |

    The Guardian |

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    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 Baltimore became a rising star in America's worker cooperative movement

    August 08, 2025 |

    Baltimore Beat |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Worker cooperatives like the bookstore/cafe Red Emma's partnered with other organizations to create Seed Commons, a national financing network that provides loans without requiring individual collateral. Seed Commons has distributed over $100 million in loans supporting 15,000 workers nationwide. In the Baltimore region specifically, the network has invested $25 million, created 250 ownership-track jobs, and supported 23 cooperatives.

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  • Recicla Ricaurte detiene la muerte antes de que llegue al mar

    August 03, 2025 |

    El Turbión |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Ricaurte

    Recicla Ricaurte por la Paz es una asociación comunitaria liderada por mujeres que desde 2017 ha desarrollado un sistema integral de recolección, clasificación y comercialización de residuos plásticos y cartón, creciendo de procesar 800 kilogramos cada tres meses a 7-8 toneladas mensuales, evitando así que estos materiales contaminen el río Güiza y lleguen al océano Pacífico, mientras genera ingresos económicos para sus integrantes en un territorio afectado por el conflicto armado y la falta de oportunidades laborales.

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  • Pink City Rickshaw Puts Women in the Driver's Seat

    July 28, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: India, Jaipur

    ACCESS Development Services trains women to drive electric auto rickshaws, providing them with marketable skills that help them earn a living independently. The all-women Pink City Rickshaw Company employs the women to provide tours throughout the city and has since trained over 200 women.

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  • Affirmative action helps students thrive at universities across Brazil

    July 22, 2025 |

    The World |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro

    Federal universities in Brazil operate on a quota system of affirmative action in which half of the available seats are awarded based solely on academic achievement and the other half are for students from underrepresented populations, including those identifying as Black, Indigenous, or disabled. The policy has encountered significant pushback, but it has also helped thousands of students access higher education.

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