Global progress on health, safety, and sustainability
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A new fund, Her Horizon Fund, launched with a goal to end female genital mutilation by pooling $100 million from donors to support programs over a generation.
Advocates note that while many countries now recognize FGM as a human rights violation and have criminalized it, lasting progress remains challenging. In New York City, officials reported a historic decline in violent crime during the summer months of June to August.
Police recorded 195 shooting incidents, 249 shooting victims, and 66 murders, the lowest numbers in recorded history for each of those categories, along with a 6.6% drop in major crime citywide. Bhutan, a country in South-East Asia, became the first in its region to eliminate dog-transmitted rabies as a public health threat.
The World Health Organization validated Bhutan’s success, which relied on vaccinating dogs to prevent the spread of the nearly always fatal viral disease, and providing post-exposure treatment to people bitten by infected animals. Additionally, a man in the US received a kidney transplant from a pig in January 2025, avoiding months of dialysis.
