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  • Tanzania Reality Show Tackles Gender Inequality, Awards Women Farmers Cash And Farm Tools

    July 30, 2015 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: Tanzania, Shinyanga

    Many unskilled workers in Tanzania are women and, due to gender inequality, they are often disregarded and live with economic hardship. Oxfam Tanzania has a reality show that raises awareness of women farmers. The winners of the show go use their notoriety to promote women’s rights and improve the lives of other women farmers.

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  • Curing Violence Like an Infectious Disease

    July 30, 2015 |

    Tiny Spark |

    Podcast |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Neighborhoods in Chicago suffer from gang violence and gun-related deaths. A church leader and a physician trained in infectious diseases created Cure Violence, a program that sends teams of local residents to meet with gang leaders as a means of producing positive behavioral change by re-setting social norms. Their approach has reduced violence between 40% and 70%.

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  • When a Boy's Life Is Worth More Than His Sister's

    July 30, 2015 |

    Foreign Policy |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: South Korea

    Due to patrilineality, sons are highly favored over daughters in many countries, with serious consequence. South Korea, the only country to have returned to normal sex ratios after having a highly abnormal ratio of boys:girls, has lessons for other countries.

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  • Scavengers Are India's Real Recyclers

    July 29, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: India, Bhalswa, Delhi

    As Prime Minister Narendra Modi looks to tackle the mounting trash problem in India, millions of unacknowledged urban poor – known as scavengers and ragpickers to the locals – have been making their livelihood identifying resources from what others have deemed trash. If brought into the nation-wide effort, India may see a cleaner future at a faster rate.

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  • Reform in Costa Rica signals new strategy against lethal epidemic

    July 29, 2015 |

    Center for Public Integrity |

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    Response Location: Costa Rica

    Costa Rica has instituted regulations to protect farm laborers from an increasing risk of kidney disease by mandating that employers in tropical conditions provide water, rest and shade, with higher levels of relief correlated to increasing temperatures. There has been surge in chronic kidney disease among agricultural workers along the Pacific Coast in Central America and in India and Sri Lanka and a recent study fund it's highest among workers laboring between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

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  • Women on the Beat: How to Get More Female Police Officers Around the World

    July 28, 2015 |

    The Guardian |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Pakistan

    Female police officers are more effective in decreasing violence against women, but suffer gender discrimination and little societal support. Programs in different countries are making small changes to support female police officers.

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  • The Classrooms Hidden in Mumbai's Seams

    July 28, 2015 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Response Location: India, Mumbai, Maharashtra

    Educators are bringing the classroom to the thousands of Mumbai’s children out of school — in school buses, treehouses, and beyond—enabling them to receive a quality education despite their poverty.

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  • These Programs Are Helping Prisoners Live Again On The Outside

    July 28, 2015 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

    After release, ex-prisoners often have a hard time re-integrating into society. Re-entry programs in several states work to stabilize this process, providing inmates with education while in prison or connecting ex-convicts to job and counseling resources once they are out.

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  • Free Birth Control for Philly Teens

    July 27, 2015 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    A Colorado program reduced the state’s teen birth rate by 40 percent by providing young women with long-acting reversible birth control.

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  • Under the Knife

    July 27, 2015 |

    Foreign Affairs |

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    Response Location: Iraq

    After pressure from activists, a slew of countries have passed laws that ban female genital mutilation, the practice of cutting of a girl’s external genitalia. However, in some places like the Iraqi Kurdistan region, the law was not enforced and was met with stiff opposition from religious leaders. “When it comes to FGM and child marriage, you’re changing perceptions so it takes a while, and these practices have been going on for generation after generation so it takes time to end them.”

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