Anchorage Daily News
30 December 2020
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Alaska, United States
Despite hopes that testing a backlog of rape kits would reveal many new serial-rape suspects, Alaska's three-year push to test 568 kits under the federally funded Sexual Assault Kit Initiative led to only one new prosecution. The reasons the program fell short of expectations include a lack of usable DNA samples, errors by investigators, cases in which victims and suspects had died or victims no longer wished to proceed, or the kits revealed no evidence that wasn't previously known. Alaska is now footing the bill to test more kits, which contain physical evidence collected after a rape.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/04/23/this-may-be-the-best-way-to-measure-gun-violence-in-america
Todd Frankel
The Washington Post
23 April 2016
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Homicide rates fail to account for all the times when a gun is fired in anger, fear or by accident and the bullet simply misses its mark. The more telling number about gun violence might be “shots fired.” And now, thanks to broader adoption of new technologies, it is getting easier to show just how common gun violence is in America.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2016/0221/CSI-Cleveland-How-the-city-is-curbing-sexual-violence
Christopher Johnston
Christian Science Monitor
21 February 2016
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Ohio's second-largest city has become a national leader in responding to rape cases and dealing compassionately with victims by working from day one with advocates from rape crisis centers.
https://medium.com/the-development-set/for-male-survivors-healing-through-chat-77132a56dc6f#.ol1n3jkpg
Joanna Schroeder
Bright Magazine
6 January 2016
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One in six boys in the United States has experienced sexual abuse before turning 18. With few recovery options in real life, more of them are going online for support.
http://nationswell.com/one-in-four-university-of-virginia-reform-campus-culture
Chris Peak
NationSwell
24 March 2016
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At the University of Virginia, the all-male peer education group One in Four works to create new standards surrounding sexual violence against women.
http://wyomingpublicmedia.org/post/unique-program-delivers-emergency-care-person-native-victims-sexual-assault
Melodie Edwards
Wyoming Public Radio
28 August 2015
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By some estimates, sexual assault on U.S. Indian reservations is the worst in the world with one in three Native women assaulted during their lifetime. But nine courageous women at Wind River Reservation are trying a totally new approach. They deliver emergency care in person.
https://spectrumnews.org/features/deep-dive/autisms-full-spectrum
Amy Yee
Spectrum News
4 May 2016
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Minority families often miss out on treatment or get left out of research — an ethical failure. New projects are illuminating autism’s diverse shades and aim to provide care to all members of society.
http://www.voanews.com/content/in-bangladesh-grassroots-efforts-to-end-violence-against-women/2793800.html
Amy Yee
Voice of America (VOA)
28 May 2015
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A non-profit in Bangladesh is fighting domestic violence by having female and especially male Bangladeshi volunteers give sexual education and women's rights classes.
http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-09-15/mumbai-slum-dwellers-say-i-have-help-stop-violence-against-women
Marco Werman
Rhitu Chatterjee
Public Radio International (PRI)
15 September 2015
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In the Mumbai slum of Dharavi, an NGO called Society for Nutrition, Education & Health Action (SNEHA) is working to make life safer by teaching men the importance of not being violent towards women. Through an app called Eyewatch, community members are able to document acts of domestic violence, which helps SNEHA team members locate victims and their abusers.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/study-shows-resistance-tactics-work-to-prevent-campus-sexual-assault/article24905250
Erin Anderssen
The Globe and Mail
10 June 2015
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In the debate over how to reduce sexual assault on university campuses, proposing self-defense classes for women is controversial. But, according to new landmark Canadian research, it works.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/university-of-texas-sexual-assault_55d37384e4b07addcb44436f
Tyler Kingkade
The Huffington Post
19 August 2015
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2014 was a year marked nationwide by activism and unprecedented federal attention to the issue of campus sexual assault. The University of Texas system is putting $1.7 million into a comprehensive, multi-year effort to combat sexual assault on campus.
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