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  • #WhyLoiter reclaims public — and inner — space for Indian women

    September 17, 2015 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: India, Mumbai, Maharashtra

    WhyLoiter is a growing movement that encourages women in India to spend time out in the street to challenge societal restrictions on women in public.

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  • What other places starting to test rape kits can learn from Ohio

    September 10, 2015 |

    Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    When processing rape kits, it may be faster and more cost-effective to extract DNA profiles rather than first screen swabs and undergarments for semen. Ohio’s crime lab, which has identified a potential suspect in nearly 40 percent of recent cases, has made this and other changes to its procedures.

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  • Forging and Welding an Education

    September 10, 2015 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    In Oakland, a non-profit created an industrial arts education school offering youth an alternative classroom for learning where failure is welcomed and everything is hands on, such as welding and forging. The non-profit, which is known as The Crucible, was founded in 1999, and serves more than 8,000 students per year, all managed by close to 100 faculty members.

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  • Seattle's special-ed mess: Who's in charge of what?

    September 01, 2015 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Seattle risks losing about $12 million annually in federal funds unless it fixes problems that include failures to update student learning plans, deliver services outlined in those plans and provide services consistently from school to school.

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  • Unique Program Delivers Emergency Care In Person To Native Victims Of Sexual Assault

    August 28, 2015 |

    Wyoming Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Wind River Reservation, Wyoming

    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.

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  • When Prisons Need to Be More Like Nursing Homes

    August 27, 2015 |

    The Marshall Project |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The U.S. prison population is aging, which is costly because older inmates need more care. Some states have responded by creating special wards, having the young inmates care for the old, or building nursing homes.

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  • The Town That Decided to Send All Its Kids to College

    August 18, 2015 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Baldwin, Michigan

    College was never much of an option for most students in this tiny town of 1,200 located in the woods of the Manistee National Forest. But residents of Baldwin, Michigan, pooled together their money to provide scholarships for everyone, and it changed the town profoundly.

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  • Safe Surgery Innovations in Uganda

    August 17, 2015 |

    Al Jazeera |

    Broadcast TV News |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Uganda

    In Uganda, disease caused by improper surgical protocol is one of the leading causes of death. In response to this problem, Doctors are utilizing a surgical checklist from the World Health Organization, as well as other affordable technology, to help address this epidemic.

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  • Achieving Mental Health Parity: Slow Going Even In ‘Pace Car' State

    August 13, 2015 |

    KFF Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    California has taken perhaps the most proactive stance in the nation in enforcing laws to ensure people with mental illnesses have fair and timely access to care. But even in this state, it’s proving difficult to ensure mental patients truly have equal access to treatment. New laws aim to hold insurers and health care providers accountable.

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  • Climate change crusade goes local

    August 09, 2015 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Miami Beach, Florida

    Around the globe, countries have taken actions that have helped reduce carbon emissions and increase the use of renewable energy. Although the state of Florida feels the effects of climate change, its state representatives have not produced policy addressing it. Local policy makers and organizers have made the biggest difference in the state.

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