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  • Restore Justice: Local Arbitration Helps Reconcile What Courts Can't

    October 05, 2025 |

    upBeat |

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    Response Location: India, West Bengal

    The salishi (local arbitration) system operated by women's collectives in West Bengal successfully resolves about 74% of domestic violence and family disputes through community-based mediation. This has resulted in the encouragement of people following legal routes.

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  • From Risk to Rescue: Keeping Girls Safe In The Climate-Hit Sundarbans

    October 05, 2025 |

    upBeat |

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    Response Location: India, West Bengal

    BIRD's community-based anti-trafficking network has used vigilance hubs, local partnerships, and survivor-focused rehabilitation to rescue over 500 girls. Building community trust has made families turn to them first when children go missing, reducing trafficking rates in climate-vulnerable regions.

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  • Beyond Rhetoric: Assessing Lagos DSVA's Record on GBV Prevention and Response.

    October 03, 2025 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    The Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA) provides comprehensive survivor support services including legal aid, medical care, shelters, and prevention programs, successfully building public trust and securing 140+ convictions while reaching 6.3 million people through awareness campaigns, though significant gaps remain between the 8,692 reported cases and actual access to justice and support services.

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  • When Women Keep Watch: Inside Plateau's Female-Led Vigilantes and Peace Networks

    September 30, 2025 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Jos

    Women in Jos, Nigeria formed cross-religious peace networks and vigilante patrols that eliminated conflict deaths between 2014-2023 in their communities, restored inter-faith relationships, and reduced crime through nighttime security operations, though they face ongoing challenges from lack of police support and systemic justice failures.

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  • How Baltimore's violent crime rate hit an all-time low: 'This is not magic. It's hard work'

    August 16, 2025 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Baltimore implemented a comprehensive, data-driven violence prevention strategy that combines personalized intervention services with targeted prosecution, resulting in the city's lowest murder rate in 50 years through coordinated efforts by social workers, police, prosecutors, and community organizations.

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  • Safe haven or breeding ground for corruption: how Ukraine is building underground schools

    July 21, 2025 |

    Рубрика (Rubryka) |

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    Response Location: Ukraine

    To safely get students back into in-person learning environments amid ongoing Russian attacks, the Ukrainian government has prioritized building underground schools, some of which are in repurposed metro stations while others are dedicated shelters attached to existing schools. So far, the country has completed 20 underground schools, with 221 more under construction, but concerns have also been raised about potential corruption among contractors.

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  • This Nigerian nonprofit brings former foes together through the power of storytelling

    May 27, 2025 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Jos, Plateau

    The Youth Initiative Against Violence and Human Rights Abuse, or Yiavha, brings together Nigerians from ethnic groups with a history of conflict and violence to help them find common ground through community storytelling. The organization has held more than 60 storytelling sessions in Nigeria’s Plateau state and has trained more than 300 youth to become peace ambassadors tasked with organizing their own storytelling events.

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  • Networks of hope: women from Piura fight against gender violence

    May 08, 2025 |

    El Colectivo 506 |

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    Response Location: Peru, Piura

    The community networks of women defenders in Piura are organized structures that, since 2018, have provided accompaniment, training, and inter-institutional coordination to victims of gender-based violence, combining psychological support, legal pathways, and economic empowerment. Since their founding, more women have reported violence, coordination between public institutions such as police and prosecutor's offices have improved, and survivors have transformed into leaders who break cycles of violence in their communities. Read this story in Spanish here: https://solu.news/mvw1

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  • From privilege to subjectivity: reflecting on masculinities to improve gender equity

    May 05, 2025 |

    El Colectivo 506 |

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    Response Location: Brazil

    Program H is a group educational methodology that works with young men through participatory workshops, role-playing, and debates to reflect on toxic masculinities and promote more equitable attitudes toward gender. It has been implemented in more than 30 countries since 2002, successfully facilitated by males who act as gender equity role models. This story is available in Spanish here: https://solu.news/24kd

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  • Redes de esperanza: mujeres de Piura luchan contra la violencia de género

    May 03, 2025 |

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    Response Location: Peru, Piura

    Las redes comunitarias de mujeres defensoras de Piura son estructuras organizadas que, desde 2018, brindan acompañamiento, formación y articulación interinstitucional a víctimas de violencia de género, combinando apoyo psicológico, rutas legales y empoderamiento económico. Han logrado que más mujeres se atrevan a denunciar violencia, han mejorado la coordinación entre instituciones públicas como policía y fiscalías, y han transformado a sobrevivientes en lideresas que rompen ciclos de violencia en sus comunidades. Puedes leer este artículo en inglés aquí: https://solu.news/w0cx

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