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South African teenager Bohlale Mphahlele developed an innovative personal safety device designed to look like a simple piece of jewelry. Known as the Alerting Earpiece, the device is built to resemble a regular earring while discreetly containing a small camera and emergency alert system. When activated, the earpiece can capture images and send a distress signal to selected contacts. The alert can also include the wearer’s live GPS location, helping trusted individuals or emergency responders locate the person quickly. The idea behind the design is to provide a discreet safety tool that can be used in situations where reaching for a phone or drawing attention may not be possible. Mphahlele presented the concept at the Eskom Expo for Young Scientists, where the project received recognition from judges and education officials. Her invention highlights how young innovators are using technology to address real-world challenges, particularly around personal safety and rapid emergency communication.

EXCLUSIVE: New Sport England guidance ignores risks of mixed-sex changing rooms @Sport_England revealed its new swimming pool design guidance to delegates at the One Swim England Summit in Birmingham today. The current guidance dates back to 2013 and is widely used by Councils and architects to justify building mixed-sex changing rooms for swimmers. Ideally, the new guidance would scrap the edict that mixed-sex is the preferred option for new pools (note to Sport England: preferred by predators not women). In reality (and we know this because we’ve had advance sight of the draft guidelines) Sport England is doubling down on its advice to build mixed-sex changing villages as the default. Only they’re not called mixed-sex changing rooms anymore, they’re rebranded ‘all-genders’ changing rooms … Let’s look at the draft guidance in a bit more detail... 1/6

Great to hear WRN's Jane Sullivan in conversation with @JuliaHB1 on @TalkTV earlier, giving the cancellation of a boxing course for women in Bristol a good airing. It is scandalous that a course intended to benefit young women aged 16-25 was cancelled, rather than offend those who 'identify' as women by prohibiting their own attendance. Men should not be punching women - even if it is for 'sport'. We hope that King Charles is now aware of this and is taking urgent steps to reinstate the course - for women only. Perhaps Queen Camilla might have a word?

9-year-old lad walking home from football sees something not right. Three blokes trying to drag a girl into a van. Most people would freeze… he didn’t. Started shouting, ran straight at them, caused a scene. They panicked and ran off. She got away. Nine years old. Fair play to the kid that’s proper courage.

All we want is for the doors of schools and universities to reopen for Afghan girls.💔

Obviously, we weren’t clear last time: Britain rejects Digital ID. Scrap the plans. - Click here: cgo.ac/scVDTKzdp

Excellent news. That is how it should be.

Please support WDI Afghanistan online education program. Afghan girls are secretly studying despite fear and restrictions, because education is their only hope. Its some times, we have not received enough donations needed for internet access or to keep Afghan women’s voices alive. Without your help, we cannot continue. Please don’t let their voices be silenced. Please help and share:- t.co/f81pIfmdQd t.co/chOM6vqVLI Please let us know If you have question

It has been 1,639 days, and the doors of schools are still closed to girls in Afghanistan. As the Taliban have declared, girls are not only denied the right to education, they are not even allowed to ask when schools will reopen. The Taliban fear educated women. Meanwhile, the United Nations remains largely silent, offering statements and slogans while Afghan girls continue to lose their future. Afghan girls do not need more slogans. They need action.

To those asking, “How can we help Afghan women?” — the answer is simple, but powerful: First, share their voices. In a time when even speaking puts women at risk, being heard means staying alive and hope. Second, support WDI online education program. Despite fear and restrictions, Afghan girls are secretly continuing their studies. Your help can help them to join classes and learn more. t.co/f81pIfmdQd t.co/ZfsjhrBJS5 Third, provide food aid to widows and women living alone , who have no man in the house and are too afraid to go outside. These small acts can save lives. Be part of the change. Please let us know if you have any question

@hannahsbee Finally!

And I broke news that the gov tabled legislation to enable the ‘data linkage study’ of 9,000 children treated at Tavistock GIDS to go ahead. It allows gender clinics to lawfully share data that would otherwise be protected by the GRA (updating 2022 law) x.com/hannahsbee/sta…

(🧵) The Week That Was: I don’t usually do this, but it has been such a busy week with major developments on the two topics I devote much of my professional time to: - the state of maternity care - children’s gender care. Here’s a roundup. Article links are in relevant posts.

@hannahsbee @NewStatesman Women, babies and family should be ALL important and the main priority of the NHS . From 'Cradle to grave'. Value our children and mothers NHS please. !!!

England’s maternity system “not working” for anyone. Baroness Amos’ interim report reveals an overstretched and demoralised NHS workforce, racism, a crumbling maternity estate and women and families being failed too often. Me in ⁦@NewStatesman⁩ newstatesman.com/politics/healt…

@JournalismSEEN @thetimes @ShaunLintern Glad it's paused. Hope they ban it altogether.

Latest: This piece in @thetimes claims that Professor George personally 'forced the pause' in the puberty blocker trial'. Assume they've got strong evidence for this because the MHRA and the Department of Health is not under the control of one man. By @ShaunLintern (who is the chair of the executive committee of the @mjauk) and @Ben_Spencer Share token thetimes.com/article/15a0e1…

This is an incredible news.

The tree 🌳 of life in Aburi, Ghana 🇬🇭

The West and Colonizers never left Africa, let that sink in. They are still here exploiting us.

@FoEHull Well done on a cold and rainy day!

We’ve kicked off our sh*tbeach campaign with a litter pick at Bridlington South Bay. We love Brid and don’t think it’s sh*t but like all our rivers and seas there’s sewage and plastic pollution. It was a bit wet and cold but we all enjoyed ourselves.

@CharlieCat2017 so sorry for your loss.

I know this won’t show up on many people’s timelines as I don’t often interact with people, but I just need to post that Charlie died this morning. My heart is broken and I already miss her so much 💔🌈

10 million dead!

In African schools, Africans are not being taught about the Berlin conference and the effect of Colonialism in Africa. Leopold II once said “I do not want to miss a chance of getting a slice of this magnificent African cake” After Leopold acquired Congo as a private property in 1885, he looted the country of its minerals and left over ten million Africans dead.