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Society Belgium

9. June 2022

Historic Move: Sex Work No Longer a Crime in This Country

Belgium becomes the first European country to decriminalize sex work, thus granting rights to sex workers, reducing exploitation and violence, and boosting their access to medical services.

Society Morocco

7. June 2022

New Dads Get to Stay Home Longer Here

Morocco’s labor law has been rectified to increase the paid paternity leave as part of a social pact aimed at improving the working class conditions, a decision most welcomed by national labor unions.

Society India

6. June 2022

Sex Workers Get More Rights

Sex workers in India are gaining major rights to practice their profession as the Supreme Court issued directions to ensure that every worker gets the dignity they are entitled to have.

Environment China

3. June 2022

Growing Rice in Seawater Works!

China has found a way to boost its production of rice to ensure food security by planting its precious cereal that can grow in an unlikely liquid body: seawater!

Society India

2. June 2022

Equality, Please: Women Pave the Way in Electric Vehicle Jobs

A major win for workplace and gender equality: four-fifths of the workforce in an electric vehicle factory in India are women, in a country where only about 20% of women are in the labor force.

Society USA

31. May 2022

More Safety Measures, Fewer Car Accidents

The number of injuries and death associated with the motor industry decreased over the last six decades across the United States, thus proving the success of safety measures and policies implemented over time.

Society Kenya

28. May 2022

Extreme Poverty Drops – and It’s Not Stopping There!

The African country of Kenya saw about half a million of its citizens be lifted out of extreme poverty in 2021 thanks to strong economic progress, which will translate into an even further decline in the poverty rate in the country.

Society Vietnam

24. May 2022

Poverty Rate Drops – and It Could Stay That Way!

The poverty rate in Vietnam has significantly reduced between 2010 and 2020, and measures are now expected to be taken to ensure the population continues to prosper and stay well above the poverty line.

Society USA

22. May 2022

Millions Of Citizens Can Go to College… for Free!

Statewide free college programs are booming across the United States, like in New Mexico where the country’s most extensive tuition-free scholarship program has been recently signed, opening the door for affordable education for millions of citizens.

Society USA

16. May 2022

Indigenous Tribe Can Now Collect (and Protect) Plants in National Park

The Cherokee Nation has been granted permission to gather ancestral plants along the Buffalo National River in Arkansas, the United States, and intends to dedicate a part of their reservation to the protection of culturally and medicinally significant plants.