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Curing Violence Like an Infectious Disease

Amy Costello

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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When a Boy's Life Is Worth More Than His Sister's

Valerie Hudson Andrew Den Boer

July 30, 2015 |

Foreign Policy |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: South Korea

Due to patrilineality, sons are highly favored over daughters in many countries, with serious consequence. South Korea, the only country to have returned to normal sex ratios after having a highly abnormal ratio of boys:girls, has lessons for other countries.

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Why American Cities Are Fighting to Attract Immigrants

Ted Hesson

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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Outdoor Afro: Busting Stereotypes That Black People Don't Hike Or Camp

Shereen Marisol Meraji

July 12, 2015 |

NPR |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

In 2009, a woman in Oakland, California realized that there was a lack of African Americans in the outdoors. Tired of being the "only one," she created an online social space via blogging and Facebook called Outdoor Afro to connect African-Americans with other African-Americans that wanted to enhance their time in nature. Six years later, this group has grown to international status with 7,000 members and 30 trained leaders that join together to get out in nature.

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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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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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Reading, Writing, Required Silence: How Meditation is Changing Schools and Students

Jaweed Kaleem

June 12, 2015 |

The Huffington Post |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Silence can be hard to come by for students at New York City schools, contributing to increased stress. Some schools in New York are incorporating meditation to give their students time to relax and calm their inner minds after studying all day.

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Once forced to study in secret, this Indian professor inspires a generation of female students

Sonia Narang

June 08, 2015 |

Public Radio International (PRI) |

Radio |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: India, Jaisalmer, Rajasthan

Rama Arora defied tradition and secretly pursued her PhD as a young woman in India, succeeding at becoming the first female professor at a women's college. Now she is inspiring more Indian girls to further their educatione, so they can help bring about greater equality in society.

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Zanzibar's 'Solar Mamas' flip the switch on rural homes, gender roles

Sam Eaton

June 05, 2015 |

Public Radio International (PRI) |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: Tanzania, Matemwe, Zanzibar

In Zanzibar, hundreds of households too poor and remote to have access to the electrical grid are getting low cost solar power for the first time, from a group of local female engineers trained by and Indian NGO. It's the first of several "solar mamas" projects planned for parts of rural Africa, and it's turning some traditional gender roles on their head.

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Climate Change-Ready Rice Keeps Farmers' Fields Fertile

Amy Yee

June 04, 2015 |

NPR |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: Bangladesh

Soil in Bangladesh is becoming increasingly saline and infertile due to climate change. Bangladeshi farmers have begun using a saline-tolerant rice seed in order to produce an abundant crop despite salty soil.

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