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Society ColombiaIt Used to Be a Macho-City – Now It’s Run by a Female Mayor. And She’s Openly Gay
Claudia Lopez has been elected as an openly gay woman mayor – a historic first not only in Colombia, but in any capital in the Americas – showing a big improvement in the attitude towards human rights across the continent, which for centuries was considered the…
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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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SocietyIndonesian 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.
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SocietyNative 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.
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