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  • Thousands of eligible Wisconsin voters face ballot barriers in jail

    October 18, 2022 |

    Wisconsin Watch |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Jails in Illinois and Texas have improved voting access for people who are incarcerated by coordinating with voting rights advocacy groups and bringing the polls on-site. In June, voter turnout at the Cook County Jail in Illinois exceeded that of the city of Chicago as a whole, and the Harris County Jail in Texas saw 96 people vote in-person in November 2021 and about 200 cast ballots in the March primary.

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  • With FoI Act, NGO is Helping to Spotlight Developmental Issues in Lagos Community

    October 17, 2022 |

    BONews |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Araromi, Lagos

    Media Rights Agenda helped a community in Lagos, Nigeria, submit Freedom of Information Act requests to draw attention to the community’s lack of basic amenities like roads and clean water. When government organizations ignored the requests, the organization took legal action and released a documentary about the issue to gain public support.

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  • An Initiative is introducing coding and programming languages into Nigeria's education curriculum

    October 12, 2022 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kwara

    KidsThatCode offers weekend programs and summer boot camps to teach Nigerian children coding and programming languages. More than 2,000 students have participated since 2017.

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  • Rwanda: free livestock vaccination aids control of rift valley fever in Nyagatare

    October 06, 2022 |

    AnFezaA |

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    Response Location: Rwanda

    To help stem the spread of Rift Valley Fever among livestock, the Rwandan government launched a free vaccination campaign that leveraged private veterinarians to administer the inoculations. More than 275,000 animals were vaccinated against the disease.

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  • How UDEME is fighting corruption in Nigeria's public sector

    October 04, 2022 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Ute, Ondo

    The UDEME Monitor program trains student journalists to track and report on transparency and accountability around publicly-funded projects. The team has produced roughly 1,000 stories exposing corruption and gaps in implementation and has worked directly with community residents to raise awareness around procurement processes.

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  • 40 Acres: Reaching reconciliation

    October 03, 2022 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: United States, Manhattan Beach, California

    Protesters in Manhattan Beach, Calif., organized a campaign to return Bruce's Beach, a 7,000-square-foot plot of land that was taken from its Black owners in the 1920s, to the descendents of the original proprietors. The success of the effort led to the formation of Where is My Land, an organization that puts pressure on municipalities and governments to return land that was stolen from Black people throughout the United States' history.

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  • A mass vaccination campaign geared towards securing Ugandans against yellow fever

    September 30, 2022 |

    Metro FM 90.8 |

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    Response Location: Uganda

    Following an outbreak of yellow fever, officials in the West Nile region of Uganda rolled out a mass vaccination campaign through community health centers and regional hospitals. Thanks to awareness efforts and diligent testing, the outbreak was addressed with no new infections, and vaccines for yellow fever are now being added to Uganda's routine vaccination schedule.

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  • How forensic science can aid the human rights movement

    September 27, 2022 |

    Aeon |

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    Response Location: Spain

    The forensics-based human rights movement uses forensic science to identify victims of genocide and political violence buried in mass graves, allowing their families to arrange proper burial and bolstering collective history around these events. The strategy has been particularly effective in countries with state-imposed silence around past atrocities, such as Spain, where more than 9,000 bodies have been exhumed since 2000.

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  • How Youth Are Stepping up Against the Mountain Valley Pipeline

    September 26, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, West Virginia

    Indigenous youth activists are using social media, online organizing, and art to mobilize intergenerational protests against the Mountain Valley Pipeline in Appalachia. After the Inflation Reduction Act undermined court successes that had stopped the project, the movement is putting pressure on legislators to stop it, with some key senators saying they won't vote for the side deal negotiated to keep the pipeline moving forward.

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  • How to Fix America's Confusing Voting System

    September 12, 2022 |

    ProPublica |

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    Response Location: United States

    The Center for Civic Design helps states simplify ballot and registration forms to make their voting processes more accessible for people with low literacy, who are more likely to struggle with the complex language of most election materials. Such reforms have led to fewer ballots being rejected, including in New York, where a redesigned absentee ballot helped the number of rejected ballots drop from 22 percent to just 4 percent.

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