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🏆 Youth activists in Montanna sued the state over its climate-damaging use of fossil fuels. With immediate effect, Montana officials must now consider climate change, greenhouse gasses, and environmental effects when choosing whether or not to license fossil fuel projects.
Women, girls, and gender-expansive people face the greatest climate risks yet are marginalized in decision-making. Empowering these voices can safeguard our planet.
🏆 For the first time ever, two women are at the forefront of Mexico's presidential primaries. Running for the left and the right respectively, Claudia Sheinbaum and Xóchitl Gálvez head to the primaries in September that will determine the candidates for Mexico’s June 2024 election.
In a country where gender based violence is upheld by a machismo culture, with an average of 10 femicides a day, female representation in an election to hold the highest position of power would be unprecedented and revolutionary. While this is a symbolic moment for the country, we must also acknowledge that the political history of each candidate does not fully reflect feminist values.
🏆 New FDA blood donation guidelines are now more inclusive, eliminating questions based on sexual orientation: “Years of data have demonstrated that this new eligibility screening process ensures a safe blood supply patients can feel confident in.”
What was once a knee-jerk reaction to the AIDS crisis has continued to be part of the marginalization and demeaning of the queer community, most notably men who sleep with men; it's about time that we got rid of this homophobic assumption that gay and bisexual men are a threat to society in any way.
🏆 Ohio voters reject Issue 1, which would have raised the minimum vote percentage to pass a constitutional amendment from 51% to 60%. Many residents breathed a sigh of relief as the Issue was widely understood to negatively target constitutional abortion right measures on the upcoming November ballot.
Although abortion is still legal in Ohio, the state has experienced waves of severe restrictions in recent years putting adults and children able to get pregnant at acute risk. Defending the simple majority will help protect children and adults able to become pregnant as the state nears its November general elections when fundamental abortion rights are on the ballot.
🏆 The United Nations General Assembly has declared October 29th International Day of Care and Support. The day is meant to honor and recognize “the disproportionate burden of unpaid care and domestic work on women and girls and highlights the need to address these structural barriers, which hinder women’s empowerment.”
Women in the U.S. continue to take on the vast majority of “invisible labor” in the home even though the amount of “breadwinning” women has tripled since the 1970s. Taking a day to acknowledge the overlooked care and effort women exert everyday continues the fight to an emotionally and economically equitable society regardless of sex.
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