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  • Kids Say #MeToo After Each Performance of This Play

    May 16, 2018 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Virginia

    Since the mid-1980s, Prevent Child Abuse Virginia (PCAV) has used theater to teach elementary and middle school students about sexual abuse and in the process empower them to report it. Over the course of 34 years, 13,000 students have disclosed their abuse experiences following a viewing of the play. “Many parents are very uncomfortable talking to their children about personal body safety because it gets all mixed up with the sex conversation,” executive director of PCAV explains. "The messages in the play fill the gap left behind by ineffective policy and cultural roadblocks," the author says.

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  • #MeToo sex scandals spur interest in standards for the aid sector

    May 02, 2018 |

    The New Humanitarian (formerly IRIN) |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom

    There is no international watchdog monitoring the estimated 450,000 humanitarian aid workers operating worldwide. After sex-for-aid abuses in West Africa became high-profile news in 2002, initiatives were established to regulate the sector. But without third-party enforcement, these initiatives continue to rely on the voluntary buy-in of NGOs and IOs, allowing sexual abuse and other malpractice to continue.

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  • Can VR teach us how to deal with sexual harassment?

    May 01, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United States

    Immersive virtual reality trains students and employees on how actions can lead to harassment and discrimination in schools and the workplace. These interactive games have shown to be effective at helping people retain information in pilot studies. Sexual assault survivors and public health experts are supporting this approach. There is also a push to engage people earlier in this kind of training rather than waiting until college, and researchers are finding the games become catalysts for young people to discuss sensitive issues, like consent.

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  • Women Fighting Sexism in Jazz Have a Voice. And Now, a Code of Conduct.

    April 30, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The We Have Voice Collective, a group of female and non-binary jazz and experimental musicians, have developed a code of conduct in response to rampant sexual harrassment and abuse in the music community. The collective has urged the code—which is organized into “commitments” and “definitions”—to be adopted by festivals, organizations, venues, labels, media outlets, schools, and more.

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  • A Map To The Line, And How Not To Cross It: A Code Of Conduct For The Performing Arts

    April 30, 2018 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The We Have Voice Collective is a group of 14 diverse female and non-binary musicians who have developed a code of conduct to address harrassment. Their goal is for the code to be instituted by venues, festivals, labels, schools, and for the code to be incorporated into artists’ riders.

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  • Post-conflict therapy in the DRC could halt the descent back into violence

    April 20, 2018 |

    Apolitical |

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    Response Location: Democratic Republic of the Congo

    The Congolese organization Living Peace Institute is working to heal the psychological trauma caused by the civil war fought from 1998 to 2003 which left millions dead. This work includes group therapy sessions, destigmatizing trauma, and an examination of harmful gender roles.

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  • AI tool helps law enforcement find victims of human trafficking

    April 16, 2018 |

    Futurism |

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    Response Location: United States

    When Emily Kennedy was a teenager traveling in Eastern Europe she saw street kids she learned were trafficked by the Russian mob and decided to tackle human trafficking in her college work. The company she launched, Marinus Analytics, created a software application that has been used by authorities to rescue hundreds of victims in the U.S. and Canada and is expanding. The data it gathers has also debunked assumptions about how and where trafficking takes place.

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  • Theatres seek help from 'intimacy experts' in the wake of #MeToo

    April 06, 2018 |

    Financial Review |

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    Response Location: Australia, Sydney

    In order to respond to sexual harrassment allegations against prominent members of the Australian theater community, directors, unions, and companies have collaborated on a new code of conduct. The code includes a ‘safe conversations officer’ acting as an ombudsman, intimacy training for employees, and ways to reduce a company or production’s reliance on one actor for financial security.

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  • As opioids land more women in prison, Ohio finds alternative treatments

    April 02, 2018 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: United States, Marysville, Ohio

    The Ohio Reformatory for Women is a prison that offers inmates a chance to enroll in Tapestry, an inpatient drug treatment program that tries to delve into the deeper causes women turn to drugs. It also believes in connecting women who are addicts with one another because “on the outside there’s not enough support.” The 18 month program is “about healing mind, body and spirit.”

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  • Oakland restaurant devises system to combat customers' harassment of workers

    March 29, 2018 |

    San Francisco Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    In Oakland, California a restaurant has created a system that allows servers to covertly notify management of harassment from customers. Employees of the establishment, Homeroom, came together to develop a color-coded system that keeps servers safe from customers, gives managers the opportunity to intervene, and empowers and trusts employees when they say they’re being harassed.

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