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  • Tanzania Reality Show Tackles Gender Inequality, Awards Women Farmers Cash And Farm Tools

    July 30, 2015 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Tanzania, Shinyanga

    Many unskilled workers in Tanzania are women and, due to gender inequality, they are often disregarded and live with economic hardship. Oxfam Tanzania has a reality show that raises awareness of women farmers. The winners of the show go use their notoriety to promote women’s rights and improve the lives of other women farmers.

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  • Curing Violence Like an Infectious Disease

    July 30, 2015 |

    Tiny Spark |

    Podcast |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Neighborhoods in Chicago suffer from gang violence and gun-related deaths. A church leader and a physician trained in infectious diseases created Cure Violence, a program that sends teams of local residents to meet with gang leaders as a means of producing positive behavioral change by re-setting social norms. Their approach has reduced violence between 40% and 70%.

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  • Reform in Costa Rica signals new strategy against lethal epidemic

    July 29, 2015 |

    Center for Public Integrity |

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    Response Location: Costa Rica

    Costa Rica has instituted regulations to protect farm laborers from an increasing risk of kidney disease by mandating that employers in tropical conditions provide water, rest and shade, with higher levels of relief correlated to increasing temperatures. There has been surge in chronic kidney disease among agricultural workers along the Pacific Coast in Central America and in India and Sri Lanka and a recent study fund it's highest among workers laboring between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

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  • Under the Knife

    July 27, 2015 |

    Foreign Affairs |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Iraq

    After pressure from activists, a slew of countries have passed laws that ban female genital mutilation, the practice of cutting of a girl’s external genitalia. However, in some places like the Iraqi Kurdistan region, the law was not enforced and was met with stiff opposition from religious leaders. “When it comes to FGM and child marriage, you’re changing perceptions so it takes a while, and these practices have been going on for generation after generation so it takes time to end them.”

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  • Why American Cities Are Fighting to Attract Immigrants

    July 21, 2015 |

    The Atlantic |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Nashville, Tennessee

    Despite their stigma, foreign-born populations are helping the economy of U.S. cities. Welcoming America is a national network of organizations that preach the economic upside of immigration and in this way attract immigrants to certain cities and improve their experience.

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  • Can Training Programs Help Improve Police-Community Relations?

    July 20, 2015 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Crown Heights, New York

    Lawyers and activists are educating residents in cities across the country on encounters with law enforcement. Know Your Rights training programs have been held by lawyers and community activists in neighborhoods in urban cities nationwide, designed to help residents understand the limits of police authority.

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  • The Myth of the Ethical Shopper

    July 17, 2015 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Bangladesh

    Eliminating sweatshops and child labor depends on regulation, not consumers' preferences, as supply chains have become so complex and obscure as to prevent simple labels from being valuable.

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  • Elsa's Story

    July 17, 2015 |

    The Denver Post |

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    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Boulder, Colorado

    Children across the U.S. experience gender confusion, causing emotional stress in themselves and their family. Gender identity counselors and gender youth clinics are being created in multiple states to help families find peace in their situation.

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  • Prison Born

    July 01, 2015 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Bedford Hills, New York

    More women are being incarcerated around the United States and that has spurred more institutions to create prison nurseries, which allow women to be with their newborns. It's not a new idea, but it's finding support among prison advocates as well as budget hawks because research shows nurseries can lower recidivism rates among mothers. The idea of children in prison remains controversial however.

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  • 7 solutions that could help stop rape on the night shift

    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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