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2022 started with women’s needs.
Girls’ schools in Afghanistan are closed.
But a women’s radio station helped women learn.
In Scotland, the government said sorry.
In the past, people killed hundreds of women.
They said the women were witches.
It’s a problem in some countries today.
The environment was a focus too.
In Kenya, people took care of the land.
They planted mangrove trees near rivers.
And in Liberia, people saved chimpanzees.
Scientists did tests on the animals.
Now, they’re back in the trees.
Sealife came back to Phi Phi bay in Thailand.
New rules stopped visitors to the bay.
This saved the area’s fish.
In February, Russia started a war in Ukraine.
7.8 million Ukrainians became refugees in Europe.
The war in Ukraine is making food expensive in Africa too.
Africa buys lots of food from Ukraine.
And oil and gas are expensive too.
The high prices are bad news for people everywhere in Africa.
People helped the environment in new ways.
Some people made their own clothes.
Cheap clothes break quickly.
People learnt to make good quality clothes.
They don’t need the shops.
One London company’s recycling old coffee.
UpCircle takes used coffee from cafes.
It makes beauty products with the coffee.
UpCircle wants to reuse waste.
In June, news from the USA was about waste too.
Rob Greenfield walked around cities in a suit full of rubbish.
Greenfield wants people to think about their waste.
And Americans were angry about women’s freedoms too.
The US Supreme Court changed the rules on abortion.
This took rights away from women.
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