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  • Want to end sexual violence? Feminist self-defence is the only proven solution

    August 10, 2018 |

    Apolitical |

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    Response Location: United States

    A strategy of self-defense advanced by feminists in the 1960s and 1970s shows much more efficacy in preventing sexual assaults than more recent programs aimed at perpetrators. Empowerment Self-Defence teaches an array of skills that include assertiveness and de-escalation, in addition to physical resistance and fighting. Three evaluations in the U.S., Canada and Kenya show it can decrease sexual assault, but it remains highly controversial.

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  • An innovative approach to criminal justice reform: Put black women in charge

    August 03, 2018 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, South Fulton, Georgia

    South Fulton is the only city in the U.S. to put black women in charge of its criminal justice system—from the judge, to the prosecutor, to the public defender. “The result: A focus on community policing, pretrial diversion programs and assigning public defenders to all cases.” Ultimately, the aim is to divert black people from entering the prison pipeline, and establishing a model that can be replicated in other cities.

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  • How This DC Birth Center Is Building the ‘Answer for Black Women'

    July 31, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    Community of Hope, a health clinic, is offering a prenatal program called “Centering Pregnancy.” Participants meet bi weekly and cover topics related to pregnancy until the end of their term. The goal is to improve the lives of vulnerable populations, in particular black women who face disproportionately higher rates of maternal mortality rates. "137 women came through the Centering program, representing 78 percent of the delivery clients seen by the nurse midwives at FHBC," and "only 5.8 percent gave birth preterm, and 4.6 percent had infants born underweight."

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  • Women of Color Face Significant Barriers When Running for Office. But They're Finding Support

    July 13, 2018 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States

    This election cycle, organizations are recognizing that women of color running for office need guidance and resources that take into account the challenges women of color face. “We needed to create a space that is unique for Black women to talk about the challenges and opportunities that exist that are unique for Black women so we can move Black women up the political pipeline.”

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  • Sex, taboos and #MeToo - in the country with no word for 'vagina'

    July 12, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Myanmar, Yangon

    The Myanmar-based organization, Strong Flowers, is providing men and women with sex and gender education. Teaching such classes in a notoriously conservative culture can be challenging, but founder Dr. Thet Su Htwe and her curriculum on gender roles, menstruation, gender-based violence, and reproduction have been welcomed.

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  • This Indigenous tribe in Colombia is run solely by women

    July 10, 2018 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: Colombia

    Thirteen years ago the Wayuu tribe, located in Colombia, removed it’s male chiefdom and instead asked women to be their leaders. According to the Wayuu tribe they are the only indigenous tribe in Colombia that exclusively has women leaders. ”We wanted women to use their way of dialogue to resolve our conflicts, and we wanted to transform our culture.”

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  • In northern Uganda, these women move past insurgency by baking cakes

    June 15, 2018 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: Uganda

    Sylvia Acan, co-founded Golden Women vision, an organization that teaches Ugandan women to bake cakes with the aim of helping them improve their social economic status. Many of the women, like Acan, became victims of sexual assault or gender based violence during the Ugandan war insurgency. Now, Golden Women Vision has “61 members: widows, single mothers (some whose children were abducted and never returned), domestic abuse survivors and former abductees.”

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  • Mexican women drivers' collective aims to eliminate risks to drivers, passengers

    June 08, 2018 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Tuxtla Guitierrez, Chiapas

    Safe Drivers, or Choferas Seguras, is a collective of women drivers that offer secure rides to “family members and friends who need to get to school, work, doctor’s appointments and other places.” The collective helps both the drivers and the women get around in a state where driving around can sometimes be dangerous.

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  • High-achieving girls are terrified of failure. One school is teaching them how to bounce back

    June 05, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Shaker Heights, Ohio

    A school in Ohio runs a program called Adventure Girls in order to teach adolescent girls resilience and creative problem-solving skills. The curriculum is borne out of research designed to build resilience, and it creates stressful situations and equips girls with the tools needed to get through them. Participants testify to how much the program has changed them, and the built-in role model system that employs high school girls to guide sessions also teaches valuable leadership skills.

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  • Raising babies behind bars

    May 11, 2018 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Decatur, Illinois

    Nursery programs inside prisons are not common. The Decatur Correctional Center is one of the few in the country. Eleven years since its inception, “more than 90 women have gone through the Moms and Babies program.”

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