Fast Company
– Jul 11, 2017, 6:00 AM
In February, college sophomore Trevor Hill stood up during a televised town hall meeting in New York and posed a simple question to Nancy Pelosi, the leader of the Democrats in the House of Representatives. He cited a study by Harvard University…
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The Guardian
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Rebecca Ratcliffe
– Feb 23, 5:33 AM
Luiz Loures, a UN assistant secretary general and the subject of a recent sexual assault allegation, is standing down from his position. UNAids said Loures' will not seek renewal of his contract which is due to expire at the end of March, adding…
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The Guardian
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Rebecca Ratcliffe
– Feb 24, 1:01 PM
The head of a leading women's rights movement has called for an independent investigation into what she calls pervasive bullying and sexism within a UN agency, alleging that she was harassed and sexually assaulted while working for the…
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codebluecampaign.com
– Feb 23
February 23, 2018 – Today Luiz Loures, a UN Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director at UNAIDS, “ communicated his wish not to seek renewal of his position.” Loures was accused of sexually assaulting a female…
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The Guardian
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Megan Nobert
– Feb 17, 1:00 AM
The #MeToo movement has been sparking change across the world. Now the humanitarian community has become the latest sector forced to recognise it has a serious problem that has been neglected for too long. The scandal has highlighted sexual abuse…
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NPR
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Laurel Wamsley
– Feb 20, 12:46 PM
The number of new HIV cases reported in the Philippines has surged over the last few years, according the country's health agency. In 2007, fewer than 400 new cases were reported; in 2017, more than 11,000 new cases were identified. The country had…
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Vox
– Feb 16, 10:50 AM
'Are you kids good at running and screaming?' a police officer asks a class of elementary school kids in Akron, Ohio. His friendly tone then turns serious. “What I don't want you to do is hide in the corner if a bad guy comes in the…
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Mother Jones
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Stephanie Mencimer
– Feb 22, 7:53 AM
During Wednesday night's CNN town hall on school shootings, Lori Alhadeff, the parent of a 14-year-old victim of the Parkland, Florida, high school shooting confronted the NRA's national spokeswoman Dana Loesch on why her organization hadn't done…
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Wonkette
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Evan Hurst
– Feb 21, 6:32 AM
Smart American kids who don't really feel like being shot at today are planning national school walk-outs and huge anti-gun rallies all over the country in the coming months, to push the adults in charge to finallyfuckingfinally do something about…
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The Guardian
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Moya Sarner
– Feb 20, 10:00 PM
In a bedroom in North Yorkshire at 2am, Sara Cox lay next to her sleeping husband in the dark, her eyes open and her jaw clenched shut, anxious thoughts whirling. For the previous two years, the stress of her job at an independent local pharmacy…
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