ImpactActivismWorld • September 22, 2023 This 60-Year-Old Chinese Farmer Taught Himself The Law So He Could Sue A Chemical Company And Won 60-year-old farmer Wang Enlin taught himself the law for 16 years to sue a chemical company that was polluting his village.
ActivismClimateFeaturedImpactVideoWorld • September 15, 2023 In A Historic Referendum, People In Ecuador Have Voted To Protect The Amazon By Stopping Oil Drilling In a single hectare of land in the Yasuní national park, there are more insect species than in all of North America and more species of trees and plants than in any other hectare on Earth.
WorldImpactWomen • September 7, 2023 Spain Has Named This Soccer Player As The First Woman Coach Of The Country’s Women’s Team 41-year-old Montse Tomé previously played as a midfielder for Barcelona, Levante and Spain’s women’s national soccer team.
ImpactFeaturedVideoWomenWorld • September 7, 2023 Mexico Has Decriminalized Abortion, Becoming The Latest Country To Do So In Latin America 12 out of 32 states in Mexico have decriminalized abortion, but the Supreme Court decriminalized it across the whole country Wednesday Sep. 6.
LGBTQImpactVideoWorld • September 6, 2023 A Court In Hong Kong Has Ruled That The Government Must Legally Recognize Same-Sex Partnerships The move comes after Jimmy Sham, a pro-democracy activist, sued the government for not recognizing same-sex marriage.
ImpactVideoWorld • August 7, 2023 In A Historic Moment, Brazil’s Constitution Has Been Officially Translated Into An Indigenous Language The 1988 constitution was translated into Nheengatu, the general language used to communicate between different Indigenous groups in the Amazon.
ImpactFeaturedWomenWorld • July 31, 2023 This Aboriginal Lawyer Has Become Australia’s First Indigenous Woman Supreme Court Judge Louise Taylor, an Indigenous Kamilaroi woman, was appointed to the supreme court of the Australian Capital Territory.
ImpactVideoWorld • July 30, 2023 Ghana Is Abolishing The Death Penalty, Becoming The 29th African Country To Do So Ghana is now the 29th African country to abolish the death penalty.
ImpactWomenWorld • July 5, 2023 The Netherlands Has Passed A “Only Yes Means Yes” Law Clearly Defining Rape As Sex Without Consent Previously, the law required proof that there was violence, threats or coercion in order for it to count as rape.
ImpactLGBTQVideoWorld • July 3, 2023 In A Historic Moment, Same-Sex Marriage Is Now Legal In Nepal Nepal has now become the world’s first least developed country to achieve marriage equality.
WomenFeaturedImpactWorld • July 1, 2023 In A Step For Women’s Rights, Abortions Are Now Allowed In Malta When A Woman’s Life Is In Danger Abortion had been illegal in Malta under all circumstances.
WomenFeaturedImpactWorld • June 29, 2023 Japan Has Started A Trial To Allow Women To Buy The Morning-After Pill Without A Doctor’s Approval The morning-after pill will be available over the counter at pharmacies until March 2024 as part of the trial.
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