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Human Rights

  • How Resource Centers in Higher Education Can Make A Difference

    The Hechinger Report Apr 18, 2023

    With nearly half a million undocumented students in college, dream resource centers should be on every campus.

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  • What You Should Know About Indigenous Issues in 2023

    Grist Apr 17, 2023

    The in-person summit offers leaders a rare opportunity to collaborate on stopping threats to Indigenous lands and lives.

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  • Exposure Can Help Increase Female Representation in STEM

    EdSource Apr 17, 2023

    It’s no secret that women are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and math, or STEM, fields. Nationally, in 2019, women made up 48% of the workforce, but just 27% of STEM workers.…

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  • Zoning Code Changes that Can Address Racial Inequities

    Smart Cities Dive Apr 16, 2023

    When Terry Taplin was a local college student in Berkeley, California, he and his partner were forced to move out of the city to find an affordable place to live. They packed their bags…

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  • How Protecting Indigenous Land Can Protect Your Health

    Grist Apr 16, 2023

    Protecting Indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon could prevent millions of respiratory diseases and billions in healthcare costs.

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  • Health Rights and Equity for Transgender People Vary Around the World

    The Conversation Apr 15, 2023

    While transgender people might be more culturally recognized in the U.S. than ever, visibility is not the same as justice. Transgender is an umbrella category that emerged in the U.S.…

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    Emergency Shelters Aren’t Equipped to Meet the Needs of Older Adults Experiencing Homelessness

    Ending Homelessness Apr 15, 2023

    For some time, the number of older people experiencing homelessness has been trending upwards. While there currently is not definitive national information on the number of older adults who are unhoused, staff at…

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  • The Damage of a Misguided Carbon Offset Project in Kenya

    EcoWatch Apr 14, 2023

    A carbon offset project in Kenya is putting pastoralist culture and food security at risk, and likely isn’t offsetting emissions either.

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  • Leveraging Mentorships to Help Grow the Female Workforce in India

    Brookings Apr 14, 2023

    Despite important gains in the formal education of girls in the last decade and half, women in India are conspicuously missing from the workforce. The country achieved universal girls’ enrollment in primary…

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  • Legislation Could Make Native American History Lessons Disappear From School

    The Hechinger Report Apr 14, 2023

    Dozens of states have recently adopted or introduced laws or policies that take aim at critical race theory, commonly known as CRT. Critics say the orders threaten to undo years-long attempts to enrich lessons about the history of Native American students whose culture is at risk of vanishing from…

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  • Taking Action on Data for Gender Equality

    Stanford Social Innovation Review Apr 13, 2023

    Since Hillary Clinton’s spearheading of what she called a “gender data revolution” in 2014, numerous initiatives have been launched to generate more and better data on the lives of women and girls.…

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  • Lessons Learned From A Campaign to Advance Racial Equity

    degrees Apr 13, 2023

    For the Voices of Truth campaign, FHI 360, Jefferson County Memorial Project and Kids in Birmingham 1963 worked with Blank Space Bham to create a mural about racial justice.

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