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  • The birth of a movement: how activists are winning the battle to make abortion a right

    February 07, 2020 |

    The Correspondent |

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    Response Location: Argentina

    In a country with a history of strong religious opposition to abortion, Argentinian pro-choice activists have begun to shift the political landscape around reproductive rights by leveraging young organizers, diversifying their movement, using technology to share information and support, and building visible solidarity through "green" symbolism. To bring Catholics into the effort, organizers emphasize the public health risks of keeping abortion illegal, a rhetoric that has led to government changes such as the creation of a ministry of women, gender and diversity that includes pro-choice activists.

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  • W.H.O. Fights a Pandemic Besides Coronavirus: an ‘Infodemic'

    February 06, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    As word of the coronavirus outbreak spread, so did misinformation, so the World Health Organization began working with big tech companies to put a stop to it. Collaborating with the likes of Pinterest, Google, Twitter, and Facebook, W.H.O. has posted content that disputes the incorrect information across platforms and sites in order to make "falsehoods harder to find in searches or on news streams."

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  • Giving the Gift of Mobility in a City Locked Down by Coronavirus

    February 04, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: China, Wuhan

    Thousands of people in Wuhan, China are volunteering to buy groceries, get medicine, and take community members to the hospital as a means to help those that need it during the coronavirus outbreak. Although the volunteers do not knowingly transport anyone diagnosed with coronavirus, the drivers wear protective clothing during their drives, which are organized by local neighborhood committees.

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  • How one Toronto church is beating the odds

    February 03, 2020 |

    TVO |

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    Response Location: Canada, Toronto, Ontario

    Facing closure and financial ruin, the Toronto Roncesvalles United Church found a new source of income: their own physical space. The church began renting or donating rooms for flea markets, yoga classes, shiatsu, children's theater, and more. The church says that they are "redefining how [they] do God," and that their mission is about serving the people in the community rather than remaining exclusively secular. As a result, the church topped $200,000 for the first time in its history in 2019.

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  • How Finland starts its fight against fake news in primary schools

    January 29, 2020 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Finland, Helinski

    Building successful resistance to fake information begins with primary education. Finland’s national school curriculum encourages information and media literacy along with critical thinking. The pilot program consists of training teachers, journalists, civil servants, and others in information literacy. The curriculum emphasizes three categories of fake news: misinformation (mistakes), disinformation (lies), and malformation (conspiracies).

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  • An Atlanta Church and a Theater Nonprofit Find Sanctuary Together

    January 29, 2020 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, College Park, Georgia

    Collaborations can breathe new life into community churches. In College Park, Georgia, the College Park First United Methodist Church entered into a partnership with PushPush, a theater nonprofit formerly located in the metro Atlanta area. The partnership came about with the help of Good Spaces, a socially-minded real estate development organization.

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  • Sustaining the tempo; How Kano is succeeding in its fight against Polio

    January 27, 2020 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kano, Kano

    Kano State in Nigeria has implemented a strategy to increase the likelihood of children receiving necessary vaccinations to reduce cases of polio. The strategy, which included enhanced training on administering the vaccinations, taking the vaccines directly to homes and "collaboration between policy makers and traditional leaders," has resulted in no cases of polio for the last five years.

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  • The Philippines Is Making Roads and Cement With Plastic Garbage

    January 23, 2020 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: Philippines

    Discarded plastic can serve as construction material for major infrastructure and public works projects. In the Philippines, private companies like San Miguel are stepping in to participate in the government’s infrastructure projects. Companies are increasingly looking at closed-loop systems as a way to address plastic waste and drive construction projects. Nestlé and Unilver are among the other companies working to recover discarded plastics. Some of the programs offer incentives like cash for returned plastic waste.

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  • The answer to America's health care cost problem might be in Maryland

    January 22, 2020 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: United States, Maryland

    Maryland's health care system is based on three pillars – all-payer rate setting, a global budget, and total cost of care – that, together, have shown positive results both for the patients and for the state's hospitals. Although evidence of success with regard to health care costs is limited, the model of incentiving investment in community health and preventive care has shown success in reducing readmission rates for hospitals across the state.

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  • This strategy helped stop murders, prosecutors say. But Kansas City police killed it

    January 19, 2020 |

    The Kansas City Star |

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    Response Location: United States, Kansas City, Missouri

    Within a year of its creation, a state-federal collaboration to reduce gun violence in Kansas City seemed to result in a deep decline in killings. But the program, called Kansas City No Violence Alliance, collapsed by 2019 after police pulled their support. The program's approach, called focused deterrence, has been proven effective in multiple studies in other cities. But an analysis of the program in Kansas City found multiple failures in consistently getting targeted people to attend call-ins, where they are threatened with arrest if they commit violence but offered social services to choose another path.

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