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8. October 2019

California Lawmakers Phase Out Profit-Hungry Prison Companies

Lawmakers have passed a bill to upend the private prison industry in California, as well as four major Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers, wiping out profit motive from incarceration.

Society

7. October 2019

Indonesian Parliament Protects Girls from Unwanted Husbands

Indonesian girls can marry at the age of 16 – or even younger should their parents request permission from courts or officials – but the parliament has now agreed to raise and restrict the minimum age at which women can marry to 19.

Society

6. October 2019

Bigger Paychecks for Cambodian Textile Workers

When questions were raised in the European Union regarding workers’ rights in Cambodia, the country responded by promising laborers in the garment industry a 4.4% raise to the legal minimum wage by January 2020.

Society

5. October 2019

New Online Service Puts Hidden Indigenous Lands on the Map

A global online platform mapping all the indigenous and community lands in the world will spotlight the potential pressures of illegal logging and mining, and help indigenous peoples protect their land rights.

Society

4. October 2019

More Poor Children Survive First 5 Years Than Ever Before

The mortality rate for children aged five and under has dropped from nearly 10 million deaths two decades ago to around half the amount in 2017 - even with the increase in world population by more than one billion people.

Society

3. October 2019

Native Americans Get Waiver to Remove Plants from National Park for Ancient Dish

The federal government of the U.S.A. has acknowledged the rights of Cherokee Indians to harvest traditional plant foods on their ancestral homeland, lifting the ban of foraging sochan, a unique green plant, in the Great Smokey Mountains National Park.

Society

2. October 2019

Student Architects Help Build Five Million Low-Cost Homes

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has major plans to build five million affordable homes in rural, urban and peri-urban areas across the country over the next five years, with the help of student architects.

Society

1. October 2019

More People Care About Our Lost Wallets Than We Thought

Researchers from the United States and Switzerland have discovered that, contrary to popular belief, people are surprisingly likely to try and return a lost wallet to its owner, and even more so if the wallet has money in it.

Environment

29. September 2019

Homeless Get Paid to Keep the City Clean

A six-month program in Little Rock, a city in the U.S. state of Arkansas, helps people out of homelessness while keeping litter away from the streets and from affecting the environment.

Society

29. September 2019

More Jail Time for Sex Criminals in Sierra Leone

In Sierra Leone, the 15-year maximum sentence for rape has been switched to a 15-year minimum thanks to a parliamentary vote, after the West African country’s president declared sexual violence as a national emergency.