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Shedding light on human rights: do businesses stand up to scrutiny?

Annabel Short

February 25, 2015 |

The Guardian |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Netherlands, The Hague, South Holland

There are increasing costs to business when they fail to respect basic human rights. Many are therefore taking steps to avoid abuses – and are taking a proactive rather than reactive approach.

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New Orleans ends veteran homelessness

Chris Peak

January 20, 2015 |

NationSwell |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans implemented an extraordinary 10-year plan that engaged unprecedented cross-sector collaboration between government, non-profit, and private entities to provide housing and housing services to the city's homeless veterans. The city's success in providing homes for every single veteran formerly on their streets motivated cities across the nation to tackle the crises using similar means, leading to a 1/3 decline veteran homelessness since 2010.

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Trailers as affordable housing: solution or bane to the poor?

Lane Anderson

January 18, 2015 |

Deseret News |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Bath, Pennsylvania

Many people who own a trailer home live in a corporate-owned community where the rent goes unregulated but it is too expensive to relocate the trailer. In New Hampshire many manufactured home communities are owned by resident co-ops.

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What can we learn from a town that beat poverty

Lane Anderson

January 05, 2015 |

Deseret News |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Canada, Dauphin, Manitoba

In a pilot program in a Canadian city, the working poor were given monthly cash supplements to their income. The recipients did not stop working and were able to access opportunities to make a better living long term.

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Hit by climate change, Assam river communities bury their pride, move into houses on stilts

Priyanka Borpujari

October 13, 2014 |

Scroll.In |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: India, Dhemaji, Assam

Building a house on stilts is an age old tradition created by the Mishings, a tribe in India. The practice allowed them to live close to the river, without flooding their homes. In Assam, a state in India, the Mishings are viewed as a lower caste. But, heavy rainfall and flooding is forcing some Assamese to build their own houses on stilts. Still, some Assamese resist because they don’t want to be associated with the Mishings.

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How Public Markets Support Small Businesses Owned by Women, Minorities and Immigrants

Gregory Scruggs

June 16, 2014 |

Next City |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

The creation, support and development of farmers' markets around the United States lends itself to the economic empowerment of women and minority growers. From Seattle to Philadelphia, these small public markets make breaking into the food business accessible to more people on the economic scale, a hard goal to accomplish for larger grocery store chains.

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Brazil's poverty solution? Give money to women

Lane Anderson

April 14, 2014 |

Deseret News |

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Response Location: Brazil, São Paulo

In Brazil a conditional cash-transfer program is alleviating poverty, empowering women, and changing gender roles by giving families, especially mothers, money for sending kids to school and to regular doctor's visits.

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Latin America's New Superstar

Gregory Scruggs

March 31, 2014 |

Next City |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Colombia, Medellín

While the city of Medellín, Colombia was once known as a gritty, crime-ridden area, inclusive urban planning and partnerships with international corporations have turned the city in to an innovative model for policy makers around the world. The public-private partnerships that fuel the city's growth give some critics pause, but the city itself has created more democratic processes and reduced crime rates since implementing this strategy.

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Helping Poor Defendants Post Bail in Backlogged Bronx

Julie Turkewitz

January 22, 2014 |

The New York Times |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

What happens when people can’t afford to pay bail? They plead guilty. That’s what happened in the Bronx Court System, which has “one of the most backlogged big-city courts in the nation.” One nonprofit, Bronx Defenders, wants to help, by paying their bail.

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Here Comes the Neighborhood (2013)

David L. Kirp

October 19, 2013 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Mount Laurel, New Jersey

An affordable housing development in Mount Laurel, N.J., holds promise for integration by placing the development in an upscale suburban area. Since 140 affordable units were built in 2000, there has been no effect on crime rates, property values, or taxes, in reference to nearby suburbs.

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