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  • Meet the Thai Sex Workers Fighting for Their Right to Earn a Living

    Empower, a sex workers' rights organization with over 50,000 members, has been steadily pushing to improve the working conditions of women in the sex trade in Thailand. In addition to advocating for decriminalization of the trade as the best option, Empower focuses on equipping sex workers with the tools they need to assert their independence, including English classes and HIV prevention. The organization's approach is starkly different than other popular theories, such as brothel raids or the Nordic model of criminalizing the customers.

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  • Police 'de-escalation' training — how it could help Chicago

    As Chicago faces one of the worst policing crises in its history, it is looking at Las Vegas as a model as it prepares de-escalation training for its cops.

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  • Tree Regeneration Restoring Hope

    Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) is a technique in which farmers protect and prune tree stumps with the goal of the trees contributing to more fertile soil. In Kenya, FMNR has helped farmers survive drought conditions, increase their harvests, and improve food security. The training program of this technique has supported 160,000 farmers in East Africa.

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  • Can a College That's Notorious for Sexual Assault Reform Itself?

    At the University of Virginia, the all-male peer education group One in Four works to create new standards surrounding sexual violence against women.

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  • Uganda's Corruption Comes Home to Roost

    In Uganda, a country with high levels of corruption and political patronage, citizen-led grassroots efforts to root out graft and enforce accountability have sprung up across the country. “Village budget clubs,” trained by the Forum for Women in Democracy, learn about Uganda’s constitution, government budgeting and planning, and what is required of public officials. Club members then attend meetings, follow up with public officials, and fill out scorecards that rank lawmaker performance.

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  • A longer school day? In Massachusetts, some schools see big payoff

    The true prize in education is a recipe that vaults low-income students into the upper echelons of achievement. A blue-collar town in Massachusetts says the key is something as basic as more time.

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  • The Resurrection of St. Benedict's

    Once a white Catholic all-male private school, St. Benedict's Prep now educates predominantly low-income black and Hispanic students. At St. Benedict's, students hold leadership positions, receive trauma-informed counseling, and live by the motto "Whatever hurts my brother hurts me." Headmaster Edwin Leahy says the school "has the same structure as a gang except you can only be in one gang. You can only be in ours." St. Benedict's, which struggled to gain its footing in the 1960s following white flight, boasts a higher retention and graduation rate than many other Newark schools.

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  • How to Go Straight

    How to break a cycle of recidivism? Individual ex-prisoners share their own stories of how they have recovered from addiction and lives of crime, gotten their lives on track, and ultimately broken the cycle and stayed out of prison.

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  • How a Tapestry of Care Helps Teens Succeed

    A program in Baltimore bring youths together with volunteer second “families” to help guide them through turbulent times.

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  • Actor's Gang: How Tim Robbins has cut reoffending rates

    For many offenders, prison can be a tense, divisive, and anger-inducing environment, fueling the negative influences that landed them there in the first place and leading to high recidivism rates. Actor Tim Robbins - who once famously portrayed a prisoner himself - started a program called The Actors Gang to bring theater to inmates as an outlet for emotion and expression, breaking down barriers between former gang members and helping individuals to process their troubles.

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