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4 September 2020
Linn, Wisconsin, United States
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Under 800 Words
A drone program has helped the small town of Linn find missing people, rescue people in medical distress, and find multiple drowning victims in the town's lake. Police now spend less time conducting searches and have ...
16 August 2020
Egypt
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1500-3000 Words
More than 2,500 missing people have been found in Egypt because of work by the Facebook page Missing Children, which compiled a vast trove of photos and uses facial-recognition software to match faces to cases. The pa...
5 August 2020
Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico
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Over 3000 Words
Las Rastreadoras de El Fuerte is a group of about 200 members, mostly mothers whose children are among the more than 73,000 people who have disappeared and presumably were murdered in Mexico's long drug war. Las Rastr...
6 May 2020
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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1500-3000 Words
The number of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada is high, so a group of Indigenous women formed an organization called Power Our Women (POW) to teach other Indigenous women across the country self-defense...
8 May 2019
Washington, United States
Multi-Media
5-15 Minutes
Ensuring that cases of missing and murdered indigenous women are counted requires collecting data. In US and Canada, many cases of missing and murdered indigenous women remain ignored by law enforcement. In response, ...
18 April 2019
British Columbia, Canada
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1500-3000 Words
The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Drone Search Team is a group of volunteers in British Columbia, Canada that use a combination of indigenous knowledge and drones to search for missing women. Indigenous women ...
High Country News
Jessica Lussenhop
25 March 2019
North Dakota, United States
Multi-Media
Over 3000 Words
Native individuals and members of groups like Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women have taken it into their own hands to find members of their communities who have gone missing. Recognizing that decades-old legislati...
20 March 2019
Colorado, United States
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800-1500 Words
In Colorado, a state law requiring the use of a screening tool is being used to combat sex trafficking at the individual level. The screening tool identifies and offers support and protection to victims of sex traffic...
28 December 2018
San Francisco, California, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Patrick Ball, cofounder of the nonprofit Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG), has helped use quantitative data to put numbers behind things that were before unprovable — i.e. the difference between genocide and r...
31 October 2018
District of Columbia, United States
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800-1500 Words
In the United States, federal policies are expanding as a response to growing awareness of the number of missing and murdered Indigenous women. The Violence Against Women Act has expanded to include a statute called t...
31 October 2018
Helena, Montana, United States
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1500-3000 Words
In Montana, officials are taking legislative steps to address the disproportionate number of missing and murdered Indigenous women. Among the bills being introduced is “Hanna’s Act,” which would give the Department of...
16 April 2018
United States
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
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, M...
Upworthy
Ally Hirschlag
21 September 2016
United States
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800-1500 Words
Kevin Adler used his own experience with his homeless and estranged uncle to create 'Miracle Messages' —a project where he could record the messages of homeless individuals and post them on social media, in order to h...
24 November 2015
Democratic Republic of the Congo
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800-1500 Words
Journalists can find themselves in unsafe regions without anyone knowing their whereabouts. 'Reporta' is a new app that allows journalists to send alerts, provide information about their location, and send an SOS inca...
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