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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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It’s Time to Soften Schools, Not Harden Them

ED Surge

A natural human reaction is to defend, to protect and to guard—which translates into “hardening” schools. Secret Service in 2019. An example of the benefits is the case of Think Equal , a global education initiative endorsed by the United Nations Human Rights Office, teaching social emotional learning to 3-5 year olds.

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STUDENT VOICE: Teachers are often a lifeline for LGBTQ+ youth. Remote learning risks that connection

The Hechinger Report

In 2012, the Human Rights Campaign reported that 47 percent of LGBT youth say they do not “fit in” in their communities. Tempus is still one of my supporters, though she left the school district in 2019. Such sincere gestures showed me that even though I’m being beaten down from inside and out, I am still valued and loved.

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More students question college, putting counselors in a fresh quandary

The Hechinger Report

A Georgetown report published in October showed that from 1980 to 2019, average college costs rose 169 percent, while earnings for those aged 22 to 27 rose only 19 percent. Yusanat Tway, a sociology major at the University of Minnesota, wants to go to law school, then do human rights advocacy. “It That is an ongoing fear.”.

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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. However, if there is an issue in which schools need guidance, it’s around black hair.

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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.