What You Should Know About Book Bans: Frequently Asked …
Sep 25, 2023 · What You Should Know About Book Bans: Frequently Asked Questions. During the first six months of the 2022-2023 academic year, states across the country banned a total of 1,477 books. The continuous implementation of book bans nationwide leave many Americans wondering how their schools, libraries, and children will be affected. The following frequently asked questions, answers, and resources ...
A Look Into Finland’s Housing First Initiative | Pulitzer Center
Aug 23, 2024 · Image by Lilly Dietz. 2024. Attention on Finland's approach toward housing and homelessness has grown worldwide. According to Housing First Europe, within the past 16 years, Finland has shifted from traditional management of homelessness to a more progressive and holistic approach. At the root of Finland's housing initiative is the "Housing ...
No Bars, No Chains, No Locks: How Finland Is Reimagining …
Nov 16, 2021 · A former worker’s colony, Vanaja became an open prison in the 1990s. Next door is a farm and one of the prisoners is a caretaker of the sheep. The land is sprawling green and the 50 prisoners walk unattended. The men imprisoned there wear electronic monitors but no chains. There are no cages and no locks.
'Children Are Different:' Sentencing Juveniles as Adults
Aug 30, 2019 · Recent legislative reforms and judicial decisions may signal that states are beginning to scale back on “tough on crime” policies by changing how courts treat juveniles in the criminal justice system. Tough on crime policies enacted in the 1980s and 1990s increased the number of juveniles charged as adults—viewing them not as children or delinquents but as fully formed criminals. But ...
Controversial Canadian Silver Mine ‘Likely’ To Reopen in …
Guatemala, February 26 — For six and a half years, one of the largest silver mines in the world has sat dormant in southern Guatemala awaiting the outcome of a historic consultation process with Indigenous Peoples. That process — ordered to take place by Guatemala’s highest court — has become the most comprehensive consultation with Indigenous communities ever undertaken on a resource ...
McDonald’s Linked to Amazon Deforestation in New Report
Mar 30, 2022 · A cattle farm in Sao Felix do Xingu, Pará state, Brazil, Oct. 2, 2021. Image by Jonne Roriz/Bloomberg. McDonald’s Corp. has ties to deforestation and labor abuses in Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands and in the Amazon rainforest, which plays a crucial role in regulating the world’s climate, according to a report published Wednesday by Repórter Brasil, an independent research group focused on ...
A World Without Men - Pulitzer Center
A World Without Men. The Women of South Korea’s 4B Movement Aren’t Fighting the Patriarchy — They’re Leaving it Behind Entirely. Youngmi’s childhood was a difficult one. The 25-year-old nurse was born to a poor family in Daegu, South Korea, known for being one of the most conservative cities in the country.
Major Findings of Investigation Into Alleged Sex Abuse at Boys …
Nov 8, 2023 · OMAHA, Neb. — Shaelyn Nielsen remembers being required to take tests about Boys Town's rich history and its founder, Father Edward J. Flanagan, before she and other teens were allowed to work at its welcome center on Omaha's west side. The former Michigan truant, now 25, remembers being handpicked to attend Boys Town's annual Blue Water Bash fundraiser at Lake Okoboji in Iowa, where tickets ...
The Legacy of India’s Quest to Sterilize Millions of Men
Oct 1, 2018 · In some parts of the country, poor men and women were offered plots of land in exchange for getting sterilized, or for “motivating” others to do so. In 1976 alone, the Indian government sterilized 6.2 million men. Permanent methods of birth control remain very popular in India, but today women bear almost the entire sterilization burden ...
Why do so many Greenlanders kill themselves? | Pulitzer Center
Some suspect that Greenlandic teens choose suicide for the same reason young people do almost everything else—because they see their friends doing it. As Malcolm Gladwell theorized in The Tipping Point, such a "contagious idea" could be behind Micronesia's high teen-suicide rate during the 1970s and '80s.