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Leveraging technology to keep Indian women safe

Priyanka Mogul

December 26, 2018 |

News Decoder |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: India, Mumbai

Indian women have turned to smartphone apps like Safecity to help protect them from sexual violence. These apps use a combination of geo tracking and crowd-sourced stories to illuminate patterns of abuse in certain locations. Now, authorities, organizations, and individuals are using these apps to track and reduce instances of sexual violence around the world.

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Ending violence in Pakistan starts in the playground

Edward Siddons

December 24, 2018 |

Apolitical |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Pakistan, Hyderabad

Using play-based learning and positive communication lessons, an organization called Right to Play helps school children in Pakistan act less violently toward their peers. The program, which is now replicated in 18 countries around the world, aims to reduce gender-based violence and stereotyping in the classroom.

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Asian Ride-Sharing Apps Speed Up to Cut Men Out of Equation

Maroosha Muzaffar

December 13, 2018 |

OZY |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: India, New Delhi

Across Asia, ride-sharing startups are being created to provide women with safe transportation options. From India to Pakistan to Saudi Arabia, these companies starting all-women teams of drivers or offering women the option to hire female drivers. These companies are part of a larger, global trend as a – albeit short-term – response to the #MeToo culture.

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App that works as panic button helped save Grand Junction teen from alleged kidnapping

Monte Whaley

December 08, 2018 |

The Denver Post |

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Response Location: United States, Grand Junction, Colorado

In Colorado an alleged kidnapping was thwarted thanks to an app that acted as a panic button on a teen's cell phone, alerting police to his exact location. It's one of several apps taking hold across the country, including in schools where they are a tool to alert responders to mass shootings, and provide key information for police, such as the layout of a school. Panic button apps have been installed on phones in some school districts in New York, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia and California.

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Colorado anti-bullying program, fueled by pot tax dollars, considered one of the best in the country

Monte Whaley

November 17, 2018 |

The Denver Post |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Colorado

In Colorado voters approved spending money from marijuana tax sales on education. As much as $2 million is distributed to Colorado schools to spend on evidence-based anti-bullying programs. “Usually it means getting students, teachers and parents and the community involved.” The effort is working, “the percentage of students that reported being bullied dropped from 59 percent to 25 percent last school year, and the state was ranked third in the country for best bullying practices.

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Coaches shift ‘locker room talk' to promote healthy relationships, respect among student athletes

Allison Dikanovic

November 14, 2018 |

Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service |

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Response Location: United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Coaches have unique relationships with their players and Milwaukee is using that to help young men create healthy, respectful relationships as part of a pilot project using the curriculum Coaching Boys Into Men. The training uses ideas of teamwork and sports to apply those principles to actual situations and relationships. An evaluation of the curriculum in Sacramento found participants were less likely to commit abuse and more likely to intervene when they witness problematic behavior by peers.

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How Schools Can Reduce Sexual Violence

Anya Kamenetz

November 13, 2018 |

NPR |

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Under 3 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Providence, Rhode Island

Researchers are using an approach that has reduced unsafe drinking on college campuses and applying it to preventing sexual assault and harassment by giving students actual facts about what their peers are doing and thinking. In this positive social norms approach, organizers use surveys of attitudes to correct misperceptions that teens peers don’t care about harassment or assault. Anecdotally it seems to be making a difference in behavior, although a full analysis is still in process.

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Disappeared

Molly Priddy

October 31, 2018 |

Flathead Beacon |

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Response Location: Crow Indian Reservation, United States, Helena, Montana

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 Justice the power to assist with missing persons cases. Also included is expanded access, both to national crime databases and to social services, provided by the Office of Indian Services to more than 50 tribal communities.

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Solutions: Federal Policy

Tristan Scott

October 31, 2018 |

Flathead Beacon |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

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 the Special Domestic Violence Criminal Jurisdiction, which gives Indigenous communities the authority to provide criminal jurisdiction to non-Native Americans who inflict abuse and violence on Native Americans. Added in 2013, advocates and legislators seek to reauthorize the statute.

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After speaking out against Harvey Weinstein, two actresses join forces to protect others in Hollywood

Amy Kaufman

October 29, 2018 |

Los Angeles Times |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

Created by three actors who are sexual assault survivors, Voices In Action is a secure and private system to report abuse. Those that report abuse can be connected to legal representation through the site as well as receive notification if a report is made against their abuser.

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