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Society IndiaThis Cricket Team Helps to Break a Taboo for Indian Women – With Their Jerseys
For the first time, cricketers of the Rajasthan Royals, an Indian League team, will sport the logo of a sanitary pad brand on their jersey. Through this gesture, they hope to fight the stigma around periods.
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Society USAFamous New York Museum Now Has a Manager for Native American Art. And She is Native American.
Patricia Marroquin Norby, of Purépecha heritage, becomes the inaugural associate curator of Native American art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, a first in the 150-year history of the institution.
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Society GermanyLess Crime and Happy School Children Five Years After Germany’s Huge Wave of Immigrants
In 2015, the German chancellor Angela Merkel stood firm on her decision to open the doors to massive migration. Today, more than 80% of the refugee children and teenagers have a strong attachment to their German schools.
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Society USAAmericans are Against Immigrants? Wrong, Survey Finds: Most of Them are Fine with It
Gallup, the American analytics and advisory company, has been conducting an immigration poll since 1965, the longest running-poll ever, and the latest results are in: for the first time in history, more Americans want to increase immigration rather than decreasing it.
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Society ZimbabweYou Can Stay in School and Learn, Zimbabwe Tells Pregnant Girls (Before They Were Expelled!)
In Zimbabwe, it is now illegal to expel pupils for being pregnant. By making the previous guidelines into a law, the government helps tackle gender inequalities and prevent girls from dropping out of school.
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Society United Kingdom124 Less Homeless People on the Streets of Oxford
Oxford City Council has secured 124 rooms of interim housing for the next year, meaning that homeless people won’t have to return to the street. The COVID-19 rough sleeping taskforce had provided accommodation in the wake of the pandemic.