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Save the Children: MADAGASCAR - Hunger Warning as Crisis Deepens and Half a Million Children Under 5 Projected to Face Acute Malnutrition
WESTPORT, Connecticut, July 18 -- Save the Children, an organization that says it is giving children a healthy start in life, opportunity to learn and protection from harm, posted the following news release:
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MADAGASCAR: Hunger Warning as Crisis Deepens and Half a Million Children under 5 Projected to Face Acute Malnutrition
ANTANANARIVO - Hunger in Madagascar is set to escalate dramatically later this year, with the number of people facing crisis levels projected to jump by 75% and an estimated one in 10 children under five suffering or expected to suffer from acute malnutrition, Save
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WESTPORT, Connecticut, July 18 -- Save the Children, an organization that says it is giving children a healthy start in life, opportunity to learn and protection from harm, posted the following news release:
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MADAGASCAR: Hunger Warning as Crisis Deepens and Half a Million Children under 5 Projected to Face Acute Malnutrition
ANTANANARIVO - Hunger in Madagascar is set to escalate dramatically later this year, with the number of people facing crisis levels projected to jump by 75% and an estimated one in 10 children under five suffering or expected to suffer from acute malnutrition, Savethe Children said [1].
The global hunger monitor, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), has warned that the number of people projected to face crisis levels of hunger between October this year and next February could surge to 3.72 million people - about 10% of the population [2].
An estimated 500,000 children aged under 5, or one in 10, are expected to suffer or already be suffering acute malnutrition between May 2026 and April 2027. This includes approximately 78,000 children expected to have severe acute malnutrition, the most deadly form of malnutrition requiring urgent medical treatment [3].
Nearly 426,000 people are expected to face emergency conditions, more than double the current number, with urgent action needed to save lives and livelihoods.
The spiraling food crisis is driven by the lean or pre-harvest season, high food prices and climate-related shocks, Save the Children said.
While the number of children expected to suffer acute malnutrition in Madagascar is slightly lower compared to the previous analysis in September last year [4], the crisis remains severe with so many children impacted, said Save the Children.
Save the Children's Country Representative for Madagascar, Tatiana Dasy, said:
"Children are always the first and hardest hit when food runs short. Behind these alarming numbers are families already struggling to put food on the table, children going to bed hungry, and mothers forced to make impossible choices to keep their children alive.
"Without urgent support, hundreds of thousands more children could face malnutrition, illness and long-term harm to their development. We cannot wait until families are pushed to the brink before acting."
Save the Children is calling on the international community to urgently increase humanitarian funding for food assistance, nutrition services, health care and climate-resilient support for vulnerable families before conditions worsen during the lean season.
Save the Children has been working in Madagascar since 2016, specializing in education, nutrition and child protection interventions. Over the years, we have responded to several humanitarian crises, ranging from droughts to the devastating impact of tropical cyclones.
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Footnotes
[1] Madagascar is home to about 4.8 million children under the age of five according to data from UNICEF - [data.unicef.org], [population...ramids.org]. Therefore, over 500,000 children suffering from acute malnutrition translates to about one in 10.
[2] Madagascar: Acute Food Insecurity Situation for March - May 2026 and Projections for June - September 2026 and October 2026 - February 2027 | IPC - Integrated Food Security Phase Classification - About 2.12 million people in Madagascar are currently classified in IPC Phase 3 (Crisis) or above between June and September 2026. This includes more than 183,000 people facing IPC Phase 4 (Emergency) conditions. According to the same report, between October 2026 and February 2027, around 3.72 million people are projected to face IPC Phase 3 or above, a 75% increase from the number of people currently facing crisis levels of food insecurity. This includes nearly 426,000 people facing IPC Phase 4 (Emergency).
[3] According to data from IPC - Integrated Food Security Phase Classification
[4] IPC FIGURES ROM 2025: Madagascar: Acute Malnutrition Situation for May - September 2025 and Projections for October 2025 - January 2026 and February - April 2026 | IPC - Integrated Food Security Phase Classification
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Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. Since our founding more than 100 years ago, we've been advocating for the rights of children worldwide. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children - every day and in times of crisis - transforming the future we share. Our results, financial statements and charity ratings reaffirm that Save the Children is a charity you can trust. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X and YouTube.
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Original text here: https://www.savethechildren.org/us/about-us/media-and-news/2026-press-releases/madagascar-hunger-warning-crisis-deepens-and-half
[Category: Sociological]
International Center for Law & Economics: EU's Android AI Mandate Could Leave Europeans With Less Choice
PORTLAND, Oregon, July 18 [Category: Economics] -- The International Center for Law and Economics issued the following news:
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EU's Android AI Mandate Could Leave Europeans With Less Choice
BRUSSELS-The European Commission's decision to require Google to give rival AI assistants the same deep access to Android as its Gemini service could leave Europeans with fewer assistants, not more, according to Dirk Auer, director of competition policy at the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE).
The problem, Auer argues, is not the Digital Markets Act (DMA) itself, but the Commission's
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PORTLAND, Oregon, July 18 [Category: Economics] -- The International Center for Law and Economics issued the following news:
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EU's Android AI Mandate Could Leave Europeans With Less Choice
BRUSSELS-The European Commission's decision to require Google to give rival AI assistants the same deep access to Android as its Gemini service could leave Europeans with fewer assistants, not more, according to Dirk Auer, director of competition policy at the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE).
The problem, Auer argues, is not the Digital Markets Act (DMA) itself, but the Commission'suncompromising interpretation of it.
Under legally binding decisions issued today, Google must, from July 2027, give third-party assistants access to Android devices on terms 'equally effective' to those available to Gemini. A companion decision requires Google to share anonymised search data with rivals, including AI chatbots, from January 2027.
'There is a difference between letting users choose another default assistant and forcing Google to give every rival the deep system access it developed for Gemini', Auer said. 'Apple faced a similar demand and kept Siri AI off European iPhones entirely. If Brussels makes deep AI integration untenable, Google may delay or diminish Gemini in Europe. Users would get less, not more'.
The Commission has also misread the competitive landscape, Auer said. Google remains a challenger in AI assistants: ChatGPT accounts for roughly 70 per cent of EU chatbot use, while Anthropic has grown faster than any rival over the past year. Gemini's chief advantage is its integration across Google's services.
'The decision strips the trailing player of its main differentiator and favours firms that never needed one', Auer said. 'That is a strange way to promote competition'.
The Commission says its measures include robust safeguards. But giving AI agents broad access to screens, taps, and transactions creates inherent risks, including surveillance, credential theft, and unauthorised purchases. Those dangers cannot be solved simply by ordering Google to add safeguards after the fact.
Auer continued:
'The problem is not the DMA-it is the Commission's reading of it. Article 6(7) expressly permits "strictly necessary and proportionate" security measures. The Commission's demand for "objective and verifiable evidence" of harm before Google may impose restrictions appears nowhere in the statute. Brussels has taken a two-sided legal text and enforced only one side'.
The consequences are no longer hypothetical. Gemini, AI Overviews, Threads, and Siri AI have all been delayed or withheld in Europe amid uncertainty over DMA obligations. This pattern of defensive levelling down risks leaving European users with less capable products.
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To arrange an interview with Auer, contact Jim Fellinger at jfellinger@laweconcenter.org.
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About ICLE
The International Center for Law & Economics is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center working with a roster of more than one-hundred academic affiliates and research centers from around the globe. ICLE scholars promote the use of law and economics methodologies to inform public policy debates.
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Original text here: https://laweconcenter.org/eus-android-ai-mandate-could-leave-europeans-with-less-choice/
Human Rights Watch Issues Commentary to OMEP Australia: Let's Make Free Pre-Primary Education Every Child's Right
NEW YORK, July 18 [Category: International] -- Human Rights Watch issued the following commentary by Bede Sheppard, deputy director in the Children's Rights Division, to OMEP Australia:
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Let's Make Free Pre-Primary Education Every Child's Right
Forward chapter to "Pre-Primary Education Around the World"
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In 1948, with much of the world in ruins in the aftermath of the Second World War, countries came together to draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to envision a better future for humanity. Among its various promises were two audaciously ambitious claims: "Everyone has the
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NEW YORK, July 18 [Category: International] -- Human Rights Watch issued the following commentary by Bede Sheppard, deputy director in the Children's Rights Division, to OMEP Australia:
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Let's Make Free Pre-Primary Education Every Child's Right
Forward chapter to "Pre-Primary Education Around the World"
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In 1948, with much of the world in ruins in the aftermath of the Second World War, countries came together to draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to envision a better future for humanity. Among its various promises were two audaciously ambitious claims: "Everyone has theright to education" and "Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages."
Ambitious, because at the time, only half of the world's children were even going to primary school. Yet, over the decades, communities built classrooms and trained teachers. Today, about 90 percent of the world's children complete primary school. Quietly, steadily-admittedly, sometimes too slowly-humanity pulled off one of its greatest achievements: enriching the lives of many millions with all the knowledge, skills, and empowerment that primary education provides.
But when that 1948 promise was turned into binding international conventions in the 1970s and 1980s, only free primary education was guaranteed to all. Early childhood education-including pre-primary education such as preschool and kindergarten-was entirely left on the sidelines. A few visionaries argued for it, but without success.
We now know what an opportunity was missed. Brains blaze in the early years. Children who benefit from pre-primary education start school ready to thrive-they repeat fewer grades, stay in school longer, learn more, and later they earn more, with the biggest lift for children from low-income families.
We hear from the children themselves how important the opportunity is. They tell us of the joy of learning about the world, exploring new skills, building confidence, and making friends. These first sparks can ignite life-long learning.
Opportunity is expanding. As the chapters in this book explore, countries on every continent are opening the gates to pre-primary education. But we are still far from universal access. Only about half of children of pre-primary age are enrolled; more than 175 million are not.
One of the most common and widespread barriers is brutally simple: cost. Registration fees, tuition, materials and supply costs, and "voluntary" payments that really aren't. Fees that stack up into big walls for some families. In some places, a year of preschool can rival university tuition.
Remove the fees, and the picture flips: enrollment rises, children with disabilities can access the support they need, children arrive at primary school on-track, parents (especially mothers) can return to public life and paid employment, and families stop gambling with the future to survive the present.
The evidence is clear. The economics are compelling. The human stakes are undeniable.
Yet the silence on early childhood education in our core human rights treaties means the international human rights framework has not kept up with what children need to succeed.
It is time for a change.
In 2019, OMEP and the Latin American Campaign for the Right to Education met with the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child to share their research concluding that the legally binding human rights framework fails to adequately specify that the right to education should begin in early childhood.
Fast-forward to 2024, and a trio of countries from different regions and income levels-Sierra Leone, the Dominican Republic, and Luxembourg-took a bold idea to the UN Human Rights Council, the pre-eminent global human rights body in Geneva. They proposed updating international law to recognise every child's human right to early childhood education, and to guarantee every child free public pre-primary education, beginning with at least one year. (They also proposed closing a second gap: guaranteeing every child free public secondary education.)
The idea has taken off. Over the coming years, governments will be meeting to consider and draft a new treaty-known as an "optional protocol"-that could update the world's main children's rights treaty, the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Equally historic: children are participating in the process. More than 8,000 children-some as young as 3-from 40 countries have shared their views to inform the negotiations.
This is ambitious, and it might seem like a distant goal for some countries. But it would not be the first time that the international community set an ambitious goal on education. Ambition paid off in the past, and we believe it will pay off again.
Although law itself does not teach a child to count or to hold a pencil, it can move governments' budgets, policies, and priorities. It gives advocates a tool, families a promise to point to, and politicians around the world a standard to meet.
The chapters ahead prove that free, high-quality, inclusive pre-primary is achievable in high-income and low-income countries, in cities and in rural communities. They show how removing fees, training early-childhood educators, providing outreach to families, and designing for inclusion, can transform lives.
If these pages leave you convinced-as they will-then add your voice. Urge your government, your local representative, your union, or your favoured political party, to back the proposed optional protocol to strengthen the right to education. Ask them to make accessible and free pre-primary a right for all.
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Original text here: https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/07/17/lets-make-free-pre-primary-education-every-childs-right
FFRF Action Fund: 'Theocrat' Tony Perkins Wants 'God's Word' to Sway Government Policy
MADISON, Wisconsin, July 18 -- FFRF Action Fund, an organization that says it develops and advocates for legislation, regulations and government programs to preserve the constitutional principle of separation between state and church, posted the following news on July 17, 2026:
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'Theocrat' Tony Perkins wants "God's word" to sway government policy
The FFRF Action Fund declares Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council (FRC) its "Theocrat of the Week" for insisting "God's word" must influence government policy.
In a recent episode of Washington Watch, the daily program hosted by FRC President
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MADISON, Wisconsin, July 18 -- FFRF Action Fund, an organization that says it develops and advocates for legislation, regulations and government programs to preserve the constitutional principle of separation between state and church, posted the following news on July 17, 2026:
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'Theocrat' Tony Perkins wants "God's word" to sway government policy
The FFRF Action Fund declares Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council (FRC) its "Theocrat of the Week" for insisting "God's word" must influence government policy.
In a recent episode of Washington Watch, the daily program hosted by FRC PresidentTony Perkins, he shows a clip from the council's "God & Government" six-part civics course, in which he argues that "We have a responsibility to ensure that God's word is known and that it influences ... policy."
"Is government to be a concern of yours?" Perkins opens the clip, speaking to a room full of people. "I think so, in fact, this is why Paul, writing to Timothy in his first letter, says that we're to make intercessions in prayers and supplications for our leaders."
He continues, "And that doesn't mean the leaders we agree with. In fact, we should be praying more for the leaders we don't trust and don't agree with. So that we might live peaceably, peaceable and quiet lives, as Paul wrote to Timothy.
"So we need to be concerned about what's happening in our government, we need to be concerned about what ... the children in our communities are being taught and what they are learning because what they do is going to affect all of us." Perkins underscores: "And so we have a responsibility to ensure that God's word is known and that it influences ... policy."
"God & Government" is described as "a video-driven, Bible-based training course that explores the connection between biblical principles and American Government," equipping "participants with a practical understanding of civil government from a biblical worldview." It promises to answer questions such as "What does God have to do with the [U.S.] government?" and "What role should Christians have regarding government?"
"Start today and learn how to bring God's truth into every area of political engagement," the course's landing page says.
Alongside the course's six videos, all filled with Perkins' sermonizing, workbooks are available for the course's "students." Keys for the workbook questions include answers like, "If the Bible and biblical truth was sufficient for the Founders to build the nation upon, it should be sufficient to guide the nation by today," and, "A nation's laws reflect its God." One of the course's first questions supplies a "D. None of the Above" answer that purposefully misrepresents the constitutional principle of state/church separation, asking whether "The term separation of Church and State is found in: A. The Declaration of Independence, B. The Constitution of the United States, C. The Bible, or D. None of the Above."
The course's fourth video and accompanying workbook delve into the supposed "Christian History" of the United States, passing off Christian nationalist American pseudo-history as fact.
FRC is a Southern Poverty Law Center-designed hate group that targets the civil rights of the LGBTQ+ community. The council continually dehumanizes LGBTQ+ people and peddles derogatory anti-LGBTQ+, anti-abortion and "freedom of conscience" public policy.
Perkins has served as FRC's president since 2003. He earned his first "Theocrat" label in July 2025 for claiming that, "This is what separation of church and state looks like!" in response to a federal court blocking a Washington state law that would have mandated that ministers must report child abuse, including when learned of during confession. Perkins continually denies the existence of state/church separation (unless it provides a way to protect and privilege Christian churches).
Perkins, alongside the FRC, is FFRF Action Fund's "Theocrat of the Week" for grossly misrepresenting state/church separation, for urging Christians to distort secular governance through a biblical lens and for promoting American pseudo-history to further its political objectives. Our government is rooted in a godless Constitution that separates state and church, not "God's word."
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FFRF Action Fund is a 501(c)(4) organization that develops and advocates for legislation, regulations and government programs to preserve the constitutional principle of separation between state and church. It also advocates for the rights and views of nonbelievers, endorses candidates for political office, and publicizes the views of elected officials concerning religious liberty issues.
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Original text here: https://ffrfaction.org/theocrat-tony-perkins-wants-gods-word-to-sway-government-policy/
[Category: Sociological]
CAIR, Utah Muslim Civic League Welcome Utah Prosecutor's Filing of Formal Felony Charges, Confirmation of Anti-Muslim Hate Motive in Stabbing Attack
WASHINGTON, July 18 -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations posted the following news release on July 17, 2026:
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CAIR, Utah Muslim Civic League Welcome Utah Prosecutor's Filing of Formal Felony Charges, Confirmation of Anti-Muslim Hate Motive in Stabbing Attack
The Utah Muslim Civic League and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomed the Salt Lake County District Attorney's filing of formal felony attempted murder charges against Peter Michael Larsen, the domestic terrorist accused of stabbing
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WASHINGTON, July 18 -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations posted the following news release on July 17, 2026:
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CAIR, Utah Muslim Civic League Welcome Utah Prosecutor's Filing of Formal Felony Charges, Confirmation of Anti-Muslim Hate Motive in Stabbing Attack
The Utah Muslim Civic League and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomed the Salt Lake County District Attorney's filing of formal felony attempted murder charges against Peter Michael Larsen, the domestic terrorist accused of stabbinga Muslim man at a mall in Utah fifteen times, and the confirmation that the attack was motivated by anti-Muslim hate.
In a press conference today, the Salt Lake County District Sam Gill detailed Larsen's attack on a Muslim manning a kiosk at a mall earlier this week. According to Gill, Larsen approached the victim, asked where he was from, and then asked if he was a Muslim. When the man said that he was a Muslim, Larsen began stabbing him repeatedly. Bystanders, including a friend of the victim, attempted to stop him but were unable to immediately do so.
According to Gill, Larsen later admitted to law enforcement that he had committed the crime, that he knew the victim was a Muslim from a prior interaction, and that he deliberately set out planning to kill Muslims at the mall to inspire others to violently expel American Muslims from their own country.
CAIR today announced that it has identified several social media posts on a page using the same name as Larsen that expressed extreme hostility towards Muslims and various other far-right views.
SEE: Suspect intended to kill Valley Fair Mall employee because he was Muslim, documents show (https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/west-valley/valley-fair-mall-employee-hospitalized-after-being-stabbed-by-suspect)
In a statement, CAIR and the Utah Muslim Civic League said:
"We welcome the Salt Lake County District Attorney's filing of formal felony charges against Peter Michael Larsen and the announcement of plans to pursue hate crime enhancements. These important steps signal that the state is taking this crime seriously and that violent hate against American Muslims has no place in Utah.
"According to District Attorney Gill, the suspect openly admitted to law enforcement that he attacked the victim because of his Muslim identity and wanted to spark more violence against American Muslims, who he viewed as an 'infestation' of people planning to take over the country. This hateful, deranged rhetoric is no different than the language we have heard from many elected officials, including members of the anti-Muslim hate caucus. Hate speech can very easily lead to hate crimes.
"It is long past time for our political leaders to recognize that anti-Muslim bigotry is just as dangerous and unacceptable as other forms of hate. We stand in solidarity with the victim of this hate crime, his family and the broader Utah Muslim community."
CAIR has repeatedly condemned anti-Muslim rhetoric by public officials and has tied that spike in hate to growing acts of violence targeting American Muslims, like the recent deadly terror attack on a San Diego mosque.
SEE: CAIR-Chicago, CAIR National Condemn Indiana Lt. Gov's Anti-Muslim Rhetoric, Christian Supremacist Claims, False Claims About Constitution (https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-chicago-cair-national-condemn-indiana-lt-govs-anti-muslim-rhetoric-christian-supremacist-claims-false-claims-about-constitution/)
In recent weeks, CAIR chapters nationwide have responded to a disturbing series of anti-Muslim hate incidents.
CAIR's New York chapter (CAIR-NY) recently welcomed the arrest and federal charges against a suspect accused of carrying out a series of allegedly hate-motivated firebombing attacks.
CAIR-NY also joined a call for members of the public to provide any information that may assist law enforcement in identifying the individual responsible for a series of anti-Islamic graffiti incidents in Brooklyn and called for a hate crime investigation into a violent threat targeting the Sunnyside Muslim Center.
Earlier this month, CAIR's Pittsburgh chapter welcomed the federal indictment of a Pennsylvania man who allegedly identified himself as a Nazi and made threats to carry out a mass shooting targeting Muslims, Democrats, Jewish people, African Americans, and other minority groups.
CAIR's Philadelphia chapter also offered a reward for information on an arson attack on a mosque.
Washington, D.C. based CAIR's latest civil rights report documented 8,683 anti-Muslim bias complaints in 2025 - the highest number ever recorded by the organization since it began publishing civil rights reports in 1996.
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Original text here: https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-utah-muslim-civic-league-welcome-utah-prosecutors-filing-of-formal-felony-charges-confirmation-of-anti-muslim-hate-motive-in-stabbing-attack/
[Category: Sociological]
ASHS Announces the 2026 Professional Achievement Awards
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, July 18 -- The American Society for Horticultural Science issued the following news release:
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ASHS Announces the 2026 Professional Achievement Awards
The American Society for Horticultural Science is delighted to announce the following winners of the Professional Achievement Awards. These distinguished awardees will be honored at the Society's 2026 Conference in Dallas, Texas.
The ASHS Esmaeil and Bahar Fallahi Award for Integrity and Professionalism
This award recognizes professional horticulturists of any discipline and form of employment (academic, research, teaching,
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ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, July 18 -- The American Society for Horticultural Science issued the following news release:
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ASHS Announces the 2026 Professional Achievement Awards
The American Society for Horticultural Science is delighted to announce the following winners of the Professional Achievement Awards. These distinguished awardees will be honored at the Society's 2026 Conference in Dallas, Texas.
The ASHS Esmaeil and Bahar Fallahi Award for Integrity and Professionalism
This award recognizes professional horticulturists of any discipline and form of employment (academic, research, teaching,consulting, outreach, and extension, administrative, and commercial/industrial) who have demonstrated the highest level of a horticulturist in service to others.
* Shawn Mehlenbacher - Oregon State
ASHS Outstanding Undergraduate Mentor
The ASHS Outstanding Undergraduate Mentor Award recognizes and rewards excellence, innovation, and effectiveness in formal faculty mentoring/advising of undergraduate students. This award is meant to recognize work with a broader population of students and less self-selected than students enrolled in the nominee's classes. Examples include but are not limited to service as undergraduate or experiential learning coordinator in a department; service as a club or student organization advisor; mentor for undergraduate research; or mentoring/coaching of an undergraduate team competing at the state, regional, or national level.
* Chad Miller - Colorado State
Outstanding Peer Reviewer Award
This award is given for exhibiting thorough, timely, and rigorous peer review for manuscripts published in the Journal of ASHS, HortScience, and HortTechnology during the prior year the award is presented. Established in 2020.
For Journal of ASHS
* Ryan Warner - (Michigan State University)
For HortScience
* James Altland - (USDA/ARS MWA ATRU Wooster, Ohio)
For HortTechnology
* Israel Joukhadar -(New Mexico State University)
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Original text here: https://ashs.org/news/731411/ASHS-Announces-the-2026-Professional-Achievement-Awards.htm
[Category: Agriculture]
#PWNVotes: They Work for Us! Understanding the Difference Between a 501c3/c4
OAKLAND, California, July 18 -- Positive Women's Network-USA issued the following news on July 16, 2026:
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#PWNVotes: They Work for Us! Understanding the Difference between a 501c3/c4
Democracy may be on life support but the people united will never be defeated.
They Work for Us training focuses on civic engagement and advocacy, by building our members' confidence to engage with elected officials, candidates, and political parties while clearly explaining which activities are appropriate under a 501(c)(3), a 501(c)(4), or as a private citizen. Since PWN-USA is both a nonprofit and an advocacy
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OAKLAND, California, July 18 -- Positive Women's Network-USA issued the following news on July 16, 2026:
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#PWNVotes: They Work for Us! Understanding the Difference between a 501c3/c4
Democracy may be on life support but the people united will never be defeated.
They Work for Us training focuses on civic engagement and advocacy, by building our members' confidence to engage with elected officials, candidates, and political parties while clearly explaining which activities are appropriate under a 501(c)(3), a 501(c)(4), or as a private citizen. Since PWN-USA is both a nonprofit and an advocacyorganization, this training will emphasize different ways to organize, build power, and have discussions with elected officials.
Training Purpose: To introduce participants to "why the HIV vote matters," how to engage in political conversations, and what topics are allowable when representing the organization versus what conversations must be held as a citizen.
When: Wed, July 29th at 6PM ET/5PM CT/4PM MT/3PM PT
Where: Zoom
Meet Our Presenters!
Isis Torrente, (she/her/ella), PWN-TX, GHA Co-Chair & Houston IVE Campaign Co-Lead
Samm Pheiffer, (she/her), Engagement & Mobilization Director with ACLU of Pennsylvania (Former National Integrated Voter Engagement Director at PWN-USA)
Richon Rogers, (she/her), Houston IVE Campaign, Co-Lead
About #PWNVotes Training Series!
The series is designed to equip members and allies with the tools to organize, mobilize, and build political power in their states and nationally. Join us for the upcoming webinars:
* August 12 - If We Don't Tell the Story About How Women Living with HIV are Saving Democracy, Who Will?! Engaging with Media to Tell Our Stories
* September 15 - National Voter Registration Day! What You Need Know about the Midterm Election and How to Make a Voting Plan
* October 21 - Get out the HIV Vote! Community Safety on Election Day
We are reclaiming our stories and power to reach one another in our new 2026 #PWNVotes Training Series, and you're invited!
Register Now! (https://www.mobilize.us/pwn-usa/event/952201/?emci=96d4bd54-3681-f111-b337-000d3a1558ce&emdi=c91c06c4-4581-f111-b337-000d3a1558ce&ceid=18463733)
Watch Our Past Trainings HERE! (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPFUlOV4EfhY)
Check Out Our New #PWNVotes Toolkit! (https://www.pwn-usa.org/pwnvotes-toolkit/?emci=96d4bd54-3681-f111-b337-000d3a1558ce&emdi=c91c06c4-4581-f111-b337-000d3a1558ce&ceid=18463733)
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Original text here: https://www.pwn-usa.org/pwnvotes-they-work-for-us-understanding-the-difference-between-a-501c3-c4/
[Category: Sociological]
