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Mexico supreme court decriminalizes abortion across country (www.theguardian.com)

Decision comes two years after ruling abortion was not a crime in one northern state

EU fossil generation hits record low as demand falls (ember-climate.org)

A fall in demand drives collapse in EU coal and gas in the first half of 2023, as solar pushes forward clean power growth.

All Pa. students will get free breakfast, a centerpiece of Shapiro’s budget (www.pennlive.com)

Advocates applaud this as the first step in ensure food and nutritional justice for all students.

New malaria vaccine works well in infants, offers adults layered protection (arstechnica.com)

New vaccine targets a distinct stage in the malarial parasite's life cycle.

California Supreme Court repeals decades of rulings shielding police from lawsuits (www.sfchronicle.com)

State Supreme Court broadens right to sue police, overturning long-standing rulings that...

Illinois signs law preventing book bans: 'Regimes ban books, not democracies' (www.thepinknews.com)

Governor J. B. Pritzker has signed a new law which prevents state-wide book bans, saying 'Regimes ban books, not democracies'.

13 million acres of Alaska’s polar bear and caribou habitat will be protected from new oil and gas leases. (www.fastcompany.com)

HECS changes to see $3 billion in student debt 'wiped out' (www.abc.net.au)

Millions of Australians with student loans will have hundreds of dollars wiped from their HECS debts as the federal government rolls out its plans for cost-of-living relief in the upcoming budget.

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia pledges US$ 500 million to protect children from polio and end the disease for good (www.gavi.org)

New commitment will help vaccinate 370 million children against polio every year over five years, preventing paralysis and even death, and strengthen health systems to achieve and sustain a polio-free world.

Dutch city pilots radical debt cancellation scheme for poor families (www.theguardian.com)

Councillor in Arnhem says existing system to resolve issues caused by debt costs billions and isn’t working

A crisis call line run by Native youth, for Native youth - The Hechinger Report (hechingerreport.org)

Combining Childhood Education and Nutrition to Cultivate Bright Futures in Senegal (www.worldbank.org)

Through its Investing in Early Years for Human Development Project, the World Bank supported a range of early childhood interventions in Senegal, particularly through the provision of essential nutrition services, benefiting 14 million mothers and children. It helped the government of Senegal to address critical health and...

How Egypt Won its Battle Against Hepatitis C (www.worldbank.org)

After a public health campaign of just one year, Egypt has effectively eliminated Hepatitis C, the third leading cause of death in the country.

In Historic Victory for Human Rights in Colombia, Inter-American Court Finds State Agencies Violated Human Rights of Lawyers Defending Activists (www.eff.org)

In a landmark ruling for fundamental freedoms in Colombia, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights found that for over two decades the state government harassed, surveilled, and persecuted members of a lawyer’s group that defends human rights defenders, activists, and indigenous people putting the attorneys’ lives at risk.

A Transformative Journey of Mass Birth Registration and Health Insurance in The Gambia (www.worldbank.org)

The World Bank-financed Gambia Essential Health Services Strengthening Project implemented an innovative approach by conducting a simultaneous mass registration of both birth certificates and national health insurance memberships. Between August 1, 2022, and February 28, 2023, more than half of the population was registered and...

Ghana’s free high school policy is getting more girls to complete secondary education – study (theconversation.com)

Free secondary educational policy in Ghana is worthwhile but struggles to keep up with quality.

US to close 'gun show loophole' and require more background checks (www.reuters.com)

WASHINGTON, April 11 (Reuters) - A rule requiring gun dealers to obtain federal licenses and conduct background checks regardless of where they sell guns has been finalized and will soon go into effect, the U.S. Justice Department announced on Thursday.

A “big victory” for intersex people and their rights (www.ohchr.org)

Obioma Chukwuike went to an all-girls boarding school in Nigeria, but was not sure if she was a girl or a boy. “Everybody seemed so worried about my body all the time. People kept asking me if I was a girl or a boy and I would answer: ‘I don’t know. I am just me’.”

Restoring Indigenous stewardship: Yurok Tribe to co-manage National Park lands (www.optimistdaily.com)

A momentous deal marks a turning point in the effort to reclaim Native American ancestral lands.

Rivers Reborn: Alewives Continue to Make a Recovery in the Penobscot Watershed in Maine (www.nature.org)

Alewife fish populations are continuing to journey back home to Maine's Penobscot River thanks to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act which is helping to reconnect and restore fish passages.

Ambitious Danish rewilding initiative joins the European Rewilding Network | Rewilding Europe (rewildingeurope.com)

The Saksfjed Wilderness is one of the largest and most aspirational rewilding initiatives in Denmark. Membership of the European Rewilding Network will enhance rewilding efforts.

Victory in Kenya: Court of Appeal Affirms Right to Respectful Maternal Health Care | Center for Reproductive Rights (reproductiverights.org)

Court issues sweeping decision in Center’s case of pregnant woman physically and verbally abused by hospital staff and left to deliver on a concrete floor. Sweeping decision in Center’s case of pregnant woman who was physically and verbally abused by hospital staff and left to deliver on a concrete floor.

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