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  • Environmental Degradation : How Women Coalition is Championing Restoration of Peace in Niger Delta

    October 27, 2022 |

    Page TV Nigeria |

    Video |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Nigeria, River State

    The Coalition of Ogoni Women is working to foster peace in their communities and reduce youth participation in crime through open communication with youth and government officials while also advocating for women to have more authority in the communities.

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  • Mradi wa Skills Mtaani waboresha elimu kwa Vijana Mombasa

    October 21, 2022 |

    RadioRahma |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Kenya

    Ili kuwaepusha vijana kujiunga na uhalifu na kuzama kwenye mihadarati kutokana na kukosa nafasi za kuendelea na masomo, mradi wa ujuzi wa mtaani katika eneo bunge la Mvita kaunti ya Mombasa umesaidia zaidi ya vijana 11,000 kujiunga na shule za ufundi stadi na kuwapa ujuzi wa kujikimu kimaisha. Mradi huo unawalenga vijana waliomaliza darasa la nane na kidato cha nne ambao hawawezi kuendelea na masomo kwa sababu ya umaskini.

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  • Group led by a university teacher saves Nigerian vulnerable, endangered pangolins from extinction

    October 12, 2022 |

    Prime Progress |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria

    The Pangolin Conservation Guild Nigeria is a nonprofit educating the public on the importance of the declining pangolin population, the laws against hunting them, and how to keep them from going extinct. The organization also contains a task force to rescue captured pangolins and return them to the wild.

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  • Police reforms often thwarted by unions

    October 03, 2022 |

    News21 |

    Multi-Media |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

    The Ethical Society of Police is an association primarily made up of officers of color. The association aims to encourage and educate on ethics among law enforcement and works to foster better relationships within the communities they serve.

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  • 音楽スタジオ、薄型テレビ、コンドーム…世界一人道的な刑務所、ノルウェーの方針転換

    September 04, 2022 |

    朝日新聞GLOBE+ (The Asahi Shimbun GLOBE+) |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Norway

    ノルウェーの「世界一人道的」と呼ばれる二つの刑務所を取材した記事。自然に囲まれた比較的自由な環境、そして更生に向けた取り組みで、再犯率が劇的に下がった背景を伝えています。

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  • Kids saving kids: How statewide reporting tools can help prevent, stop school shootings

    September 01, 2022 |

    CBS News |

    Broadcast TV News |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    Safe2Tell is a unified statewide system where students can anonymously report concerns or threats, since research shows other students often know about a threat before it is carried out. Teams trained in risk assessment intervene before an attack can happen by contacting parents, making a welfare check, and/or talking with students. The success of the system led to the adoption of similar programs in Oregon, Nevada, and Wyoming.

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  • Gun Buybacks Are Popular. But Are They Effective?

    August 30, 2022 |

    Stateline |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Richmond, Virginia

    Gun buyback programs through organizations like the Robby Poblete Foundation help get unwanted firearms out of households and off the streets. Recently, the Foundation’s first gun buyback program received 474 firearms from residents, as more gun buyback programs have been popping up across the country.

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  • What a Sandy Hook mental health center can teach Texas about helping kids after a tragedy

    August 04, 2022 |

    Dallas Morning News |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Uvalde, Texas

    The Uvalde Together Resilience Center run by The Ecumenical Center provides mental health services to students, parents, and teachers impacted by school shootings and living with trauma. The center provides mental health resources, and professional help, as well as a sense of community for those affected to heal.

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  • New Malcolm X Plaza hopes to provide a solution to gun violence in South Dallas

    July 29, 2022 |

    Dallas Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

    The Child Poverty Action Lab in Dallas turned a vacant lot into a community plaza that hosts events like movie nights and community meals in an effort to bring the community together and reduce violence in the area.

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  • Two Cities Took Different Approaches to Pandemic Court Closures. They Got Different Results.

    July 19, 2022 |

    ProPublica |

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    Response Location: United States, Wichita, Kansas

    To curtail the societal ripple effects of prolonged court closures, Kansas' Sedgwick County courtrooms reopened with precautions just four months after initially shuttering due to COVID-19, and later brought in retired judges to help work through the court's backlog of cases. The Wichita court was able to perform more criminal jury trials at the height of the pandemic than other cities and actually saw homicides decline in 2021 as the nationwide murder rate climbed.

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