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  • Public Shaming and Even Prison for Plastic Bag Use in Rwanda

    October 28, 2017 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Rwanda, Gisenyi

    Plastic bag litter is a serious problem across Africa and around the world, choking waterways, killing livestock and wildlife when ingested, and causing environmental damage. Rwanda is one of the few nations in the world to completely ban single-use plastic bags, but they take enforcement of the ban to a sometimes controversial extreme, with punishments that can even include jail time. The measures do appear to be working, however, where the clean streets and countrysides of Rwanda stand in stark contrast to the heavily-littered land of neighboring countries.

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  • When federal health care falls short, tribes improvise

    October 27, 2017 |

    KUNM |

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    Response Location: United States, New Mexico

    Indian Health Service, the Native American Health federal agency, has not always been an ideal health program due to lack of funding and lack of flexibility to each tribe. More tribes are opening their own clinics in order to tailor health care to their needs and create more jobs, or taking over the behavioural health programs only.

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  • Training Center Gives Former Child Soldiers a New Start

    October 27, 2017 |

    Al-Fanar Media |

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    Response Location: Central African Republic, Bangui

    Since 2000 an estimated 550 children have been trained by the Union of Technicians for Unemployed Young People, a group that is trying to reintegrate child soldiers back into society. It’s not uncommon for child soldiers to join or be forced into armed groups who form part of the Central Republic's civil war. However, the union provides room and board to former child soldiers and teaches them courses in things like “ sewing, hairdressing, leather goods, carpentry and soap making. They can also improve their literacy and learn cooking and entrepreneurship skills.”

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  • First Nations Fight to Protect the Rare Spirit Bear from Hunters

    October 26, 2017 |

    National Geographic |

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    Response Location: Canada, British Columbia

    In British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest, the Kitasoo/Xai’Xais First Nations have been striving for decades to save the spirit bear, also known as Kemode bears, from trophy hunters. Since 1999, the indigenous community has started an ecotourism industry that benefits the tribe and wildlife, have worked with Canadian government to preserve 85% of the rainforest, and have most recently been advocating to ban trophy hunting across the rainforest.

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  • What Happened After California Revolutionized Sex Ed

    October 25, 2017 |

    Broadly |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    California does well when it comes to healthy teen sex behaviours, but the Healthy Youth Act has pushed this even further. This act provides a more comprehensive education including LGBTQ relationships, medical accuracy etc.

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  • The Fight to Fix America's Broken Bail System

    October 25, 2017 |

    Governing |

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    Response Location: United States

    Jails are overcrowded with inmates awaiting their trial and who didn't have the money to make bail. Across the country states are trying to implement new policies to deny high-risk felons bail, while conducting risk assessments to see if inmates would be a safety concern if they were released until their trial. Many plans have been developed but the big bail business remains a barrier.

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  • In New Mexico, demographic shifts have helped job growth

    October 24, 2017 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Luna County, New Mexico

    Historically there has been stigma and pushback to bilingual and immigrant programs, but some counties are starting to embrace diversity as key to economic development. Greater diversity spurs innovation, entrepreneurship, and population growth in rural areas, recognition of these benefits has eased the stigma and encouraged more immigrant programs.

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  • An Abandoned Roman Salami Factory Becomes an Illegal, Inhabited Museum

    October 24, 2017 |

    Atlas Obscura |

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    Response Location: Italy, Rome

    About 200 people from around the world, most of whom were homeless, occupied a former meat factory where they cleaned the space and set up homes. An Italian artist worked with residents to create a unique venue that exhibits murals, paintings, and installations of over 300 artists from around the world. The museum does not have a budget, the artists donate their works, and it operates on a democratic concept where artists from different backgrounds and styles work together. Despite not occupying the space legally, residents believe that the value the art offers to society prevented them from being evicted.

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  • How a Temple professor and a prison inmate started an international movement

    October 23, 2017 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    In the Inside-Out Exchange program half of the students are college students, and the other half are prison inmates. The program has “expanded to about 150 correctional institutions across the globe” but the biggest takeaway is the effect it has on people. Students were “ engaged in a way they never had been in the classroom. For the inmates, suddenly their opinions mattered.”

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  • Rumours about Germany: telling refugees about the danger of ignorance

    October 23, 2017 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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    Response Location: Germany

    Germany has identified a problem with refugees hearing lies about migrating to Germany, often from traffickers who just want to make money. 'Rumours about Germany' is a website for migrants to get the truth about Germany.

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