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Digital violence, such as blackmail, stalking, and the non-consensual sharing of intimate images, is rising—and becoming normalized in some low- and middle-income countries, per a new report focused on Kenya, Ghana, Colombia, and Vietnam. 

As gold prices top $3,000 per ounce and the U.S. withdraws funds to stem illegal mining, a public health crisis emerges in the Peruvian Amazon.

Most families in Surangudi village, India, have lost a limb or loved one in explosions and fires in the area’s fireworks factories, which produce 90% of the fireworks in India. 

One city in India produces 90% of the country’s fireworks, generating jobs and profits. But fireworks factory workers face risks of explosions and fires in their daily work—and some 50–100 die every year.

Investing in adolescent girls yields transformative results—but country leaders, donors, and organizations working with and for girls must bridge growing funding gaps and support evidence-based programming.