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October 1, 2023


The Global Health Crisis We Ignore

A common everyday occurrence


Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 2023 Report

Healthcare innovations to save women's lives


States News

North Carolina's radical Medicaid reinvention

Public pensions' critical role in reducing wealth inequality

How states measure up to child rights

Global Health Crisis


The Ford Foundation Report


Author Anna Lukas Miller reports why the world will not eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls by the year 2030. The reasons are complex but the solutions are known and within reach.

The global public health crisis we're ignoring - Free Future - Preventing Gender Violence Around the World

It's gender-based violence-a slow, consistent, menacing reality in the lives of women, girls and gender-nonconforming people worldwide that's been quietly getting worse, not better.

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Gender-Based Violence Is Ubiquitous


Pulitzer-Winning Artist Mona Chalabi helps us understand

How common is gender-based violence? Pulitzer-winning artist Mona Chalabi helps us understand. - Free Future - Preventing Gender Violence Around the World

The violence that women, girls and gender-nonconforming people experience is so ubiquitous that it can take on this feeling of inevitability or mundane everydayness.

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First U S Plan To End Gender-Based Violence



The National Plan to End Gender-Based Violence: Strategies for Action

The White House released the first-ever U.S. National Plan to End Gender-Based Violence. It identifies seven strategic pillars providing an important framework that is designed to be accessible and useful to public and private stakeholders.

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Global News


Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 2023 Report


Healthcare innovations to help women survive pregnancy and childbirth

Imagine a World

Where innovations could save the lives of 2 million more mothers and babies

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State News


North Carolina's radical Medicaid reinvention HarvardPubHealth


Texas schools and families struggle as hundreds of thousands of kids lose Medicaid coverage PBS


In Chicago, violence prevention programs aim to reach young people. They have to earn their trust TheTrace


Public pensions play a critical role reducing wealth inequality by race and gender. How do public pensions help close the gap in your state? nironline.org



How do U S states measure up on child rights hrw


Improving access to school-based behavioral health services through Medicaid commonwealth


How Washington state is treating housing as health care stateline


Silicon Valley VCs invest almost exclusively in companies founded by men. Could a new California law change that FullerProject


Interactive Map: U S abortion policies and access after ROE Guttmacher

For Your Information

Concerned about your OB-GYN visit? A guide to what should happen - and what shouldn't Propublica


What America can learn from Canada's new '$10 a Day' child care system Hechinger


A Nobel prize-winning immigrant's view on American inequality NPR

What's Happening In Our Corner


These organizations listed on our website are offering workshops, virtual classrooms, new programs, updates on their initiatives, valuable resources, and news you can use.


Collateral damage: Scheduling challenges for workers in low-wage jobs and their consequences. An updated resource from the National Women's Law Center NWLC



The October Book Browse booklist is here.

TWSTE BOOK BROWSE

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