THE YEAR OF THE WOMENDeb Haaland, a single mother who worked her way through college and rose to chair New
Mexico’s Democrat Party, hopes to make history as the first Native American woman elected to US Congress. She is
among an unprecedented number of women running in November’s midterm elections, thought to be partly in response
to the #MeToo movement12 £5.2m 10 bnSweden is about to reach
its 2030 renewable energy
target – 12 years early.
By December, it’ll have
3,681 wind turbines – more
than enough to meet a
target of adding 18 terawatt-
hours of new renewable
energy output.Scotland will offer free
sanitary products to all
studentsinaschemetotry
to banish ‘period poverty’.
The £5.2m world-first
projectwillgive395,000
girlsandwomenatschools,
colleges and universities
access to free protection.Pakistan’s government
willplant10billiontrees
overfiveyearstohelp
combat climate change.
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Cultural redress
Sir David Attenborough is
urging companies to donate
to conservation projects
when their advertisements
feature animals. He is
backing a new initiative,
The Lion’s Share, which
will see partners contribute
0.5% of their spend for each
ad that features an animal.
“Animals are in 20% of all
advertisements. Yet, they
do not always receive the
support they deserve. Until
now,” he said.India’s supreme court has
scrapped a colonial-era ban
on gay sex. The act became
a criminal offence again in
India when a law named
Section 337 was reinstated
in 2013. But the nation’s
supreme court has now
ruled that gay sex “among
consenting adults in
private” is not a crime. “We
have to vanquish prejudice
and ensure equal rights,”
said Dipak Misra, India’s
chief of justice.Animal payback
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SMALL CHANGECanada has tabled a bill
to help indigenous
communities reclaim objects
of cultural heritage. Many
items that were plundered
during the colonial era sit in
museums and galleries
around the world. Though
the bill has broad support,
critics argue that it could
deter museums and galleries
from buying indigenous
cultural items for fear of
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