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  • The Indian girls' football team challenging stereotypes

    May 24, 2016 |

    Al Jazeera |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: India, Mumbai, Maharashtra

    An all-girls football team is challenging gender stereotypes and empowering their teenage players in the process. An international NGO named Magic Bus teamed up with a Mumbai-based women's collective named Parcham to find girls and parents willing to participate. After a slow start, the group now has a healthy number of players who are also both Muslim and Hindu. The process of becoming confident taking up public space and the fight to claim their spot back from the boys have given the girls more confidence, and parents are now highly supportive of their daughters.

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  • Have You Ever Been Arrested? Check Here

    May 24, 2016 |

    The New York Times |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Across the country, new criminal justice campaigns are seeking to redefine how criminal records are both accessed and interpreted. Given that current crime histories fail to denote context and stories of culmination, these new products are seeking to both delay the effect criminal convictions have, as well as reshape how criminal records are recorded.

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  • Challenged schools like East Aurora find a payoff in innovation

    May 24, 2016 |

    Daily Herald |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Aurora, Illinois

    School districts in poverty-stricken areas have discovered that there is a benefit to thinking outside the box. There's no magic bullet to lead students out of poverty, but there may be different ways to engage them -- and keep them in school -- as East Aurora High and other poor schools are finding.

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  • When Cleaning Is A Matter Of Life And Death

    May 24, 2016 |

    Side Effects Public Media |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Rochester, New York

    A collaborative approach to cleaning protocols has helped a group of hospitals in New York to reduce infection rates for the "most common hospital-borne infection in U.S. hospitals." The cleaning staff are crucial to this endeavor that focuses on using a "shared, scientifically-proven cleaning method" to keep the hospital rooms free of the bacteria.

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  • Tribes Create Their Own Food Laws to Stop USDA From Killing Native Food Economies

    May 24, 2016 |

    Yes! Magazine |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, United States, Arizona

    Tribal systems are preserving their culture by teaming up with advocates and lawyers to write tribal food codes. Food codes are federal laws that govern food processing, and are supposed to protect consumers. However, some food codes ignore tribal customs. By writing their own food codes tribes can protect their customs. “It’s one thing to say that we have to develop food and process food in certain ways, but it’s another thing to recognize that tribes have their own versions of food safety.”

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  • Small-town America is arguing over whether to welcome Syria's refugees or fear them

    May 24, 2016 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Missoula, Montana

    A grassroots organization called Soft Landing Missoula (SLM) is a community effort to bring refugees to Montana. It was started by two women who met on opposite sides of a protest, but, through consistent and respectful conversation, have learned to respect each other's views and form a meaningful friendship. SLM puts that principle into practice by sitting down with the mayor, city council members and the county commission to work with the International Rescue League to start a process that helps migrants settle into Montana. They consider conversation to be the most important tool in overcoming bias.

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  • Nothing But The Truth

    May 24, 2016 |

    The Marshall Project |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Historically, police interrogations of suspects have been brutal and have involved torture. These strategies have also produced a high rate of false confessions. The HIG method, which encourages conversation in a comfortable environment, has shown to be successful in revealing the truth and incarcerating the convicted with confidence.

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  • Why are so many children around the world out of school?

    May 24, 2016 |

    The Guardian |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Central African Republic

    A new international fund will focus on education in countries affected by crises that have disrupted families' lives and their childrens' learning. The Education Cannot Wait Fund is a response to the often-overlooked needs for young people to continue their education when much international aid focuses on immediate safety and housing needs. The hope is this will enable children and youth to have a sense of normalcy and build healthy futures for themselves and their communities.

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  • How To Store Onion Without Storehouses? Teen Finds A Way Out

    May 23, 2016 |

    NDTV (New Delhi TV) |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Under 3 Minutes

    Response Location: India, Dedla

    Indian farmers frequently struggle with cheap ways to store their produce. A new kind of low-cost onion storage facility, built by 19-year-old farmer Rohit Patel, may eventually come to the rescue of onion farmers across the country.

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  • Machine Bias

    May 23, 2016 |

    ProPublica |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Risk assessments are supposed to make the criminal justice system better by predicting which defendants are likely to commit new crimes. Defendant scores are given to judges during criminal sentencing in nine states, and there’s a push to mandate their use in federal prisons. But the risk assessments aren’t accurate, only somewhat more reliable than a coin flip. Black defendants are falsely flagged as future criminals at a high rate while white defendants regularly get mislabeled as low risk.

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