Save the Children has urged the Filipino government to take immediate action to free the estimated 1,500 children allegedly held by Socorro Bayanihan Services within a heavily guarded enclave on one of the archipelago’s southern islands, close to an internationally renowned surfing spot. (Newey, The Telegraph)
Read MoreThree girls, one year. This is what it’s like to be 13 today, in a world that can’t stop talking about the dire state of your future. (Bennett, The New York Times)
Read More“I wanted to write a nonbinary character that was aspirational and incredibly cool, someone for the pups (and kids at home) to look up to,” shared Lindz Amer, a writer for the show who self-identifies as the “queer Mister Rogers.” (Firestone, Church Leaders)
Read MoreSchool districts that seek to ban textbooks that portray LGBTQ+ people and other historically marginalized groups could face hefty fines under a new California law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday. (Mays, Los Angeles Times)
Read MoreNearly half of Americans (47%) describe themselves as religious, another 33% say they are spiritual but not religious, and 2% volunteer they are “both.” Although the vast majority of U.S. adults have one of these orientations toward the nonphysical world, the 18% who say they are neither religious nor spiritual is twice the proportion Gallup measured when it first asked this question in 1999. (Jones, Gallup)
Read MoreSchools will no longer automatically be breaking the law if they refuse to refer to children by their chosen name or gender, Britain’s equalities watchdog has ruled. The Equality and Human Rights Commission previously said that failing to refer to a female pupil by their “adopted male name” and call them a boy would be “direct” discrimination. (Wright & Swinford, The Times UK)
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