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  • Baby Saver boxes: Lifelines to moms or criminal tools?

    April 30, 2025 |

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    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: South Africa, Johannesburg

    Baby Savers allow mothers to place their babies for adoption anonymously. The box is monitored, and once a baby is received, social workers are notified to help organize housing and care. Many mothers and advocates see this as life-saving care, though many others are critical of the boxes, and they don’t have support from local government agencies. Despite that, some Savers have been open for over 20 years, taking in thousands of babies over the years.

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  • Safe, not seedy: How sex work changed after two decades of decrim in New Zealand

    March 07, 2023 |

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    Multi-Media |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: New Zealand

    Making sex work a legal, recognized profession allows sex workers to conduct business in a much safer way. The decriminalization of sex work has also helped to strengthen relationships between sex workers and law enforcement, ensuring they have someone to call upon in emergencies. There are also now clinics, like the New Zealand Sex Workers’ Collective, which provides specialized care to sex workers.

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  • Health Beat #4 | Can the NHI fix SA's rural doctor dilemma?

    January 11, 2023 |

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    Video |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: South Africa

    The Umthombo Youth Development Foundation helps to produce rural healthcare workers by helping students from rural schools enter the health field, getting work in hospitals from the areas where they grew up. The Foundation has produced 528 healthcare professionals, working across 16 different disciplines.

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  • Elsa and Nosipho: they both sell sex for a living, but in opposite worlds

    December 06, 2018 |

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    Text |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Netherlands, Amsterdam

    In many countries, sex work is illegal which means that those working in the industry have very few rights when it comes to sexual abuse. Amsterdam is one of the few places where this line of work is legal, however, and because of this, workers not only have rights, but are able to also advocate for better practices.

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