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How Water Insecurity Impacts Women’s Health

Sapiens

Working in Indonesia and Peru, we also use this research, and our close partnerships with local communities and organizations, to spur action that supports gender equality and the basic human right to water. The Jakarta Post reported that Sumba went 249 days without rain in 2019. An estimated “1.8

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“Stay out of my hair!”

The Hechinger Report

During a John Muir High School walkout protesting the school’s ban on durags on Wednesday, February 20, 2019, Dylan Wilson, 15, shows his 360 wave hairstyle, created after months of wearing a durag. Durags are used to create the wave hairstyle. Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images.

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A school created a homeless shelter in the gym and it paid off in the classroom

The Hechinger Report

SAN FRANCISCO — On a Friday evening in the fall of 2019, Maria Flores stood waiting with her “crazy heavy” duffel bag and her teenage son outside the office of a man whose home she cleans. In 2019, the two were evicted from the apartment Mateo had lived in since birth. But the idea persisted and turned into a plan and then a place.

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The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

Anthropology News

First, Sinovuyo described Launch’s distinct approach to life orientation (LO), a compulsory subject added to the national curriculum during the transition from apartheid that focuses on the study of self and society through lessons on personal and social development, civics and human rights, health, and career readiness.

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Teach About Toxins and Organizing for Environmental Justice

Zinn Education Project

Learn More Fight for Life in Cancer Alley New Human Rights Watch Report Human Rights Watch released a devastating new report called, “We’re Dying Here”: The Fight for Life in a Louisiana Fossil Fuel Sacrifice Zone. Download the lesson for free.

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Educators: We Must Be Champions for Our Trans Students

ED Surge

By displaying the posters and photos of the teachers holding them up along the main hallway, my hope was that our trans students knew that despite what was happening in the state government, our staff and school would affirm and celebrate them.

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Seeking asylum in a time of Covid

The Hechinger Report

in January 2019. Asylum seekers forced to wait in Mexico have suffered at least 1,544 incidents of rape, murder, torture or other violent attacks — including 341 kidnappings or attempted kidnappings of children, according to Human Rights First. Sandra Vásquez, Concepción Ventura and their family pose for a family portrait.