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  • When the American Dream Becomes Human Rights Abuse

    October 30, 2017 |

    NationSwell |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Non-profits in California worked together to set up a national network for undocumented immigrants to fight isolation and support legal aid. Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC) offers a free confidential hotline to report human rights abuses at detention centers and help families locate each other. CIVIC’s volunteers receive 14,000 calls a month from 210 detention centers in the United States.

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  • Raton tries to rise again

    October 29, 2017 |

    The Taos News |

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    Response Location: United States, Raton, New Mexico

    Raton's economy took a devastating blow when its coal mine shut down and hundreds of people lost their job. In recent years the town has made great strides in rebuilding by taking inventory of what the town needs, encouraging local businesses, seeking tourists and businesses, and trying to build a stronger work ethic in the residents and decrease the prevalence of drugs.

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  • Creating a 'Traffic Jam' Against Sex Trafficking: This Groundbreaking Tech is a Game-Changer

    October 28, 2017 |

    Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN News) |

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    Response Location: United States

    A software helps investigators link crimes in different parts of the country to find patterns that indicate human trafficking. Traffic Jam uses artificial intelligence to comb through reams of public records and data, and even uses facial recognition tools, to find links to larger criminal networks in cases that could have seemed like local prostitution arrests. So far it has helped officials rescue hundreds of victims of human trafficking and could be applied to other crimes as well.

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  • Public Shaming and Even Prison for Plastic Bag Use in Rwanda

    October 28, 2017 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Rwanda, Gisenyi

    Plastic bag litter is a serious problem across Africa and around the world, choking waterways, killing livestock and wildlife when ingested, and causing environmental damage. Rwanda is one of the few nations in the world to completely ban single-use plastic bags, but they take enforcement of the ban to a sometimes controversial extreme, with punishments that can even include jail time. The measures do appear to be working, however, where the clean streets and countrysides of Rwanda stand in stark contrast to the heavily-littered land of neighboring countries.

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  • Training Center Gives Former Child Soldiers a New Start

    October 27, 2017 |

    Al-Fanar Media |

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    Response Location: Central African Republic, Bangui

    Since 2000 an estimated 550 children have been trained by the Union of Technicians for Unemployed Young People, a group that is trying to reintegrate child soldiers back into society. It’s not uncommon for child soldiers to join or be forced into armed groups who form part of the Central Republic's civil war. However, the union provides room and board to former child soldiers and teaches them courses in things like “ sewing, hairdressing, leather goods, carpentry and soap making. They can also improve their literacy and learn cooking and entrepreneurship skills.”

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  • The Power of Being Seen

    October 27, 2017 |

    Edutopia |

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    Response Location: United States, Cold Springs, Nevada

    For a decade, only a little more than half of the students from Washoe Country District graduated. So, school leaders launched a Social Emotional Learning program. That’s because research shows that kids that don’t form emotional connections at school are at a higher risk of dropping out. The “district’s three signature SEL classroom practices [include]: welcome rituals and routines, more engaging or interactive teaching methods, and end-of-class reflections.” In the five years since implementing the program, graduation rates increased by 18 percent.

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  • Chicago Designer Offers a Model for Repurposing Closed Public Schools

    October 27, 2017 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    In the aftermath of Chicago closing almost 50 public schools, urban designers are testing creative uses to keep the buildings functioning as community spaces. Overton Elementary is being transformed into the Overton Business and Technology Incubator, a space for local businesses. The developer is deliberately working with locals to involve the neighborhood in the building process and keep the space accessible to the community.

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  • When federal health care falls short, tribes improvise

    October 27, 2017 |

    KUNM |

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    Response Location: United States, New Mexico

    Indian Health Service, the Native American Health federal agency, has not always been an ideal health program due to lack of funding and lack of flexibility to each tribe. More tribes are opening their own clinics in order to tailor health care to their needs and create more jobs, or taking over the behavioural health programs only.

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  • Can these 'stovers' finally crack the clean cooking problem?

    October 26, 2017 |

    Devex |

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    Response Location: India, New Delhi, Delhi

    It's been proven within the cookstove industry that providing free cleaner-energy stoves to those cooking with traditional stoves or over open flame does not work as planned. Inyenyeri, a Rwandan cookstove company however, is adding a twist to that method by giving away their cookstoves that reduce emissions by 98 to 99 percent compared to wood or charcoal stoves for free, as long as the consumer agrees to buying their wood fuel pellets.

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  • The Afghan Madam Helping Sex Workers Take Charge of Their Sexual Health

    October 26, 2017 |

    Broadly |

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    Response Location: Afghanistan

    In Afghanistan, Bridge Hope Health Organization has sexual health peer educators in order to help prevent HIV. This NGO has been developed to help educate and prevent HIV in sex workers or other high risk individuals.

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