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7 solutions that could help stop rape on the night shift

Bernice Yeung

June 30, 2015 |

Reveal |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

The night shift janitor is an easy target. Working in isolation, cleaners across the country say they have been harassed, assaulted and raped by supervisors and co-workers while tidying office buildings, shopping malls and universities, as our investigation exposed.

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How football moved the goalposts for girls in rural India

Alia Dharssi

June 29, 2015 |

The Guardian |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: India, Jharkhand

Girls in India are sometimes forced into the prospects of child marriage, prostitution, or slave labor; alternatively, families often teach girls to be wives and mothers. To empower girls to make their own choices, Yuwa, an NGO based in India, introduces girls to sports for social development. Yuwa also promotes educational workshops for girls, where girls can discuss women’s rights and their thoughts about their own bodies.

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Why police don't pull guns in many countries

Sara Miller Llana

June 28, 2015 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Germany, Selm, North Rhine-Westphalia

More-rigorous police training, changing the way officers interact with residents, and requiring more education for cops has helped limit police shootings in Germany, Britain, Canada, and other nations. Their approaches may serve as a model the United States, which grapples with a number of police shootings that vastly and exponentially outnumber that of other industrialized countries.

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Amazon tribe creates 500-page traditional medicine encyclopedia

Jeremy Hance

June 24, 2015 |

Mongabay |

Multi-Media |

Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Brazil

The Matsés, an indigenous population in Brazil in Peru, teamed up with Acaté, a conservation group, to create a medicinal knowledge encyclopedia. The encyclopedia was compiled by five shamans, took two years, is 500 pages long, and “details every plant used by Matsés to cure a massive variety of ailments.” It not only preserves ancestral knowledge, but is seen as a way to improve the health of Matsés and future generations. “Until their encyclopedia, the Matsés entire traditional health system was on the unchecked verge of disappearance.”

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The simple idea that could transform US criminal justice

Tina Rosenberg

June 23, 2015 |

The Guardian |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Newark, New Jersey

In the courtroom known as Part Two, at the Newark Municipal Courthouse, Judge Victoria Pratt is pioneering the procedural justice approach, and is getting results. The idea, now central to conversations around reform of the US criminal justice system, is simple: "people are far more likely to obey the law if the justice system does not humiliate them, but treats them fairly and with respect."

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A Recipe For Success With Two Student Groups That Often Struggle

Jennifer Guerra

June 23, 2015 |

NPR |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Brimley, Michigan

Students in a small town in Michigan are outperforming their peers statewide. Over half of the students are American Indian and many come from low-income families. Because the town's reservation can't be taxed, the school receives additional federal funding. And teachers have put it to good use - by hiring more staff, decreasing class sizes, and frequently evaluating students' progress. One fourth grader offered her own theory: "Well, everyone's accepted here for who they are, no matter if they're Irish, Native, African American or just French."

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Detroit Team Shrinks Breastfeeding Disparities

Molly Ginty

June 22, 2015 |

Women's eNews |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

At St. John Hospital in Detroit, the principles of cultural sensitivity and collaboration—as well as lots of fundraising—have boosted previously low breastfeeding rates by black mothers.

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Texas study may aid juvenile justice reforms

Sylvan Lane

June 22, 2015 |

Dallas Morning News |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

An in-depth study of Texas youth crime records helped them find a path forward on juvenile criminal justice reform, but they still struggle with limited resources and a culture stuck on incarceration.

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Pozor, uprchlíci

Tomáš Lindner

June 21, 2015 |

Respekt |

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Response Location: Germany, Geisenhausen, Bavaria

Česko odmítá uprchlické kvóty. Místní politici říkají, že společnost není na příchod a integraci utečenců připravená. Budují v lidech strach z toho, že migrace rozvátí zemi. Zcela odlišný obraz uprchlické krize nabízí sousední Bavorsko. Tato spolková země integrovala tisíce uprchlíků, kterým pomohla naučit se německy, najít si bydlení i najít a udržet si zaměstnání. Využívají k tomu dobrovolníky, kteří téměř po celém Bavorsku organizují vzdělávací a volnočasové aktivity.

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Watch Out for Refugees

Tomáš Lindner

June 21, 2015 |

Respekt |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Germany, Geisenhausen, Bavaria

Bavaria has integrated thousands of refugees into the public sphere by helping them learn German, find housing, and maintain employment through apprenticeship programs and other volunteer-run organizations in the community. Now, with Bavaria as an unlikely example, the Czech Republic looks to these program models in the wake of its own refugee crisis.

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