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The EU is giving away 15,000 free Interrail passes to citizens of EU countries who are 18 this summer. Applications opened this week

US YouTube star Chrissy Chambers made history last year, when she won a landmark revenge porn civil case. She explains where she found the courage to fight back

Steven Pinker says 'we’re apt to mistake the harms around us for signs of how low the world has sunk rather than how high our standards have risen.' What does the data say?

Steven Pinker says 'we’re apt to mistake the harms around us for signs of how low the world has sunk rather than how high our standards have risen.' What does the data say?

As the media’s spotlight falls on junk food marketing, sugar and childhood obesity, Johanna Ralston – CEO of the World Obesity Federation – urges decision-makers to act now

Who best to talk to young people about teenage pregnancy? Teenage parents themselves, according to one charity

From a storyline on a radio soap to a youth-focused campaign featuring animated emojis, three inspiring sexual health campaigns

From a carpool social network to incentivised car-free travel, our pick of five transport projects that tackle air pollution

Five bee-lovers tell us why they are so passionate about these fascinating insects

As a successful advertising executive, Dan Parker helped companies like Coca-Cola and McDonald's shift fizzy drinks and fast food. But when diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, he quit ad land. [...]

Ismene Cole is a Bristol-based counsellor, a life coach and a Positive News co-owner. The news has a huge impact on us, she says, and it's important that we choose what we feed our minds

We meet the artist who has launched a website allowing members of the public around the world to name and shame local authorities and urban planners who commission pieces of 'hostile design'

Indigenous people in Canada have historically been neglected and oppressed. This man was so shocked at reading hate-filled comments online that he offered to share his land with a First Nations family

She’s having a baby with a man she’s not married to, and he’s going to stay at home while she runs the country. Prime minister Jacinda Ardern tells Positive News how she hopes to make New Zealand [...]

Politicians in the country have voted to reduce the maximum weekly work hours

Victims of terror attacks by Isis, the far right, the IRA and other groups have formed a network that aims to defeat terrorism and support those affected by atrocities

Meet the scientists finding out how we can defeat our inner trolls and build more cooperative digital societies

The new issue of Positive News magazine, out today, features a cover story about the people who are turning around society’s addiction to plastic. Editor Lucy Purdy introduces the issue and asks: [...]

Amid a stabbing ‘epidemic’ in London, a Home Office campaign aims to challenge perceptions that having knives is normal, and that carrying weapons makes young people safer

Canada’s senate has passed a bill making the country's national anthem gender-neutral. Germany is pondering a similar move