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SocietySouth African Men Blow Big Loud Trumpets for Women’s Safety
A patrol group led by men in Soweto, South Africa’s largest township, is fighting gender-based violence using their colorful vuvuzela trumpets to protect women from crime and harassment while safely escorting them to public transport.
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SocietyTeenage Prisoners Get a Weekly Taste of Freedom with Fencing Lessons
The second largest prison in Senegal offers young inmates a weekly fencing class, where boys and girls can spend two hours training together outside the prison walls, restoring self-confidence and learning respect and discipline along the way.
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SocietyMother of Three Becomes Role Model as First Female Railway Porter in Rajasthan
34-year-old Manju Devi broke through the glass ceiling as the first woman porter in conservative Rajasthan, India, working at the busy Jaipur railway station with 177 other porters - all of whom are men - and is praised by the authorities.
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SocietyStateless Children in Kenya Now Get a Better Start With Birth Certificates
600 young children from Kenya’s stateless Shona group have been issued birth certificates by the government for the very first time, in a drive to end statelessness and provide the Shona a better future with improved rights and opportunities.
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