• Colombia’s multidimensional poverty rate has dropped from 29.7% in 2010 to 9.9% last year. Colombia Reports.
• Violent crime rates continue to plunge in America’s big cities. Axios.
• Australia, the first ever country to roll out a national HPV vaccination program, is now seeing zero cervical cancer in women under 25. BBC.
• Mariska Hargitay’s Joyful Heart Foundation has successfully achieved rape kit reform in all 50 states, Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico. People.
• Wind and solar have saved UK from gas imports worth £1.7bn since Iran war began. CarbonBrief.

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