Botswana women to become landowners, diversity update for NZ schools, free period products in France

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In today’s edition of Squirrel News, we’re talking about a revolutionary new law in Botswana allowing women to become equal landowners alongside their husbands, an update in New Zealand’s inclusion and gender diversity guidelines, and a French initiative to offer free period products in high schools.

Women in Botswana are to be made equal landowners under new law

The amendment to a land act will allow women to be independent in marriages, and is being celebrated as long overdue by rights groups.

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation News

Schools in New Zealand have been advised to use students’ preferred names, genders, and pronouns

For the first time in nearly a decade, inclusion and gender diversity guidelines were updated in order to be in line with modern values.

Source: Posibl

Free period products will be available in French high schools by the end of October

The initiative aims to reduce levels of period poverty, with 6-12% of young women regularly skipping classes due to a lack of access to basic products.

Source: Posibl

More Afghan interpreters will be able to resettle in the UK following the expansion of a relocation scheme

Until now, many of those who worked as translators and interpreters for British forces were not protected against backlash from the Taliban.

Source: BBC News

Pope Francis has told a group of parents that God and the church loves and accepts their LGBTQ+ children

By announcing that “the church loves your children as they are because they are children of God”, there is hope for more acceptance of LGBTQ+ communities.

Source: Advocate

Black employees in Berlin’s tech sector have founded a group to promote diversity

Black in Tech Berlin aims to share ideas on how to bring about change in the industry, in addition to offering networking support.

Source: Africa News

A company in New York is producing a hand sanitiser made from captured CO2

Vodka producer Air Co. uses solar power to separate oxygen and hydrogen molecules, before combining the latter with CO2 sourced from beverage factories.

Source: Tea After Twelve

Khao Yai National Park is posting rubbish back to littering tourists

Visitors to the Thai park have to register their addresses, making it easy for rangers to track them down if they leave rubbish behind.

Source: BBC News

A Germany-based African organisation is supporting trafficking survivors upon their return to Ghana

Maisha offers hope for those trying to rebuild their lives by providing help with networking, knowledge sharing and capacity building.

Source: The African Courier

The Plated Project is using art to feed hungry children in India

All profits from the creative social enterprise go to supporting access to food, with over 175,000 meals sponsored this year.

Source: The Inkline

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