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A young child plays in dirt in Vietnam. On current estimates, 6 percent of the global population — close to half a billion people — would still be living in extreme poverty by 2030, according to Helen Clark, a former New Zealand prime minister who headed the United Nations Development Program from 2009-2017. (Photo by Shawn Harquail) Photo used under CC BY

Lack of leadership leaving development goals unmet

The world has made far too little progress on the global goals governments adopted in 2015 to end poverty and hunger and tackle climate change, with a rising tide of nationalism acting as a wrecking ball, architects of the goals said.

Reuters

How US climate policies undercut global goals

Forbes

NGOs find Britain’s cuts breach human rights

British tax and social security cuts since 2010 have not met the mentioned requirements of non-retrogression. Therefore these cuts breach the rights to social security and to an adequate standard of living.

Open Democracy

WHO looks into charges of racism, corruption

The head of WHO has ordered an internal investigation into allegations that the U.N. health agency is rife with racism, sexism and corruption after the explosive charges were presented to top managers last year.

NBCNews.com

S. African poor fear eviction from shacks

In South Africa, millions have been forced to build makeshift shack homes to live in. A rights group says hundreds are being thrown out of their shacks, adding that such actions are illegal in the absence of a court order.

Al Jazeera

Climate change imperils future of coffee

Sixty percent of coffee species found in the wild could soon go extinct. Climate change, deforestation, droughts and plant diseases are putting the future of coffee at risk.

CNN

French, Irish citizens demand action on climate

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Bolsonaro turning ‘forest into savannah’

Heedless of the climate, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro wants to open up protected indigenous territories in the Amazon rain forest to mining, cattle ranching and farming.

Spiegel International

HUMAN RIGHTS

Isle of Man is first Brit isle to legalize abortion

The Isle of Man, a self-governing territory that is under British sovereignty, has become the first of the British Isles to decriminalize abortion in a dramatic reform. It previously only allowed abortion in limited circumstances.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

‘Outdated’ UK abortion laws hampering care for women, doctors say

The Independent

Venezuela to get Cuban doctors who left Brazil

Venezuela will receive 2,000 Cuban doctors who left Brazil following a dispute between the Communist-run island and the government of far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who ordered an end to their stay.

Reuters

How doctors became Cuba’s biggest export

TIME

Winter storms batter Syrian refugee camps

Harsh winter weather is creating havoc across Lebanon’s Syrian refugee camps as more rain and snowfall is expected.

Al Jazeera

Colombia dismantles first tent camp for Venezuelan migrants

Al Jazeera

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Sweden ends deadlock, gets new government

Sweden’s parliament voted to give Social Democrat leader, Stefan Löfven, a second term in office at the head of a new centre-left minority government, ending more than four months of deadlock after ambiguous elections.

Guardian

Sweden got a government but faces struggle with nationalists

Bloomberg

Thailand vows to change its refugee policy

Thailand’s immigration chief has pledged a reversal of the country’s notoriously harsh treatment of refugees following the global furore around a young Saudi woman’s attempt to seek asylum.

South China Morning Post

Morocco foils 89,000 illegal migration attempts in 2018- interior ministry

Thomson Reuters Foundation

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Cancer cells converted to fat to halt spread

A method for fooling breast cancer cells into fat cells has been discovered by researchers. The team were able to transform EMT-derived breast cancer cells into fat cells in a mouse model of the disease, preventing spread.

Technology Networks

Researchers racing against extinction to uncover tree’s cancer-fighting properties

phys.org

Gene study sheds light on African salmonella

Scientists have completed one of the largest bacterial comparative gene expression studies to date and taken another step forward in understanding the African salmonella strain that is currently killing around 400,000 people each year in sub-Saharan Africa.

ScienceDaily

Potent mosquito repellent made from bacteria

A recent study has found that a compound derived from bacteria is three times more potent than DEET in repelling mosquitoes. This bacterial chemical could play an important role in the fight against mosquito-borne illness.

NPR

Space billboards could ruin night sky by 2021

StartRocket, a Russian startup is planning to launch glowing billboards into the night sky, to help advertise big-name companies and brands that already dominate our lives on Earth.

Techradar

GLOBAL HEALTH

EU may need rules to stop doctors emigrating

The European Union should consider regulating to stop member states from poaching each other’s doctors and other professionals, German Health Minister Jens Spahn has said.

Channel NewsAsia

Burnout making doctors want to kill themselves

New York Post

Not vaccinating is now a global health threat

People who don’t vaccinate has emerged into a global health threat in 2019, said the WHO. Vaccines prevent 2-3 million deaths a year, and improved global coverage could stop an added 1.5 million deaths annually.

USA TODAY

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Ethan Lou):

Another thing you may not know about Bitcoin: it’s killing the planet

Guardian

Column (Nicole Smith Dahmen):

Of the trillion photos taken in 2018, which were the most memorable?

The Conversation

Column (Scott Duke Kominers):

Busting the refugee-crime connection

Bloomberg

Column (Richard N. Haass):

Agonizing over Afghanistan

Asia Times Online

Column (Patrick Litanga):

What next for the DR Congo after the disputed election?

Al Jazeera

Column (Tamara Wood):

Are women escaping family violence overseas considered refugees?

The Conversation

Column (Jennifer Lucey):

To save the rainforest, we need to work with the palm oil industry

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

Buddhist poker player donates big winnings

A Buddhist poker player from Halifax just won $671,240 by finishing third in a tournament in the Bahamas, and he’s planning to give his profits to charity.

CTV

London supermarket bans plastic packaging

Customers visiting Thornton’s Budgens shop in London’s Belsize Park can pick up everything from fresh fruit and vegetables, bread and cheese, to wild game meat, including squirrel and wild boar, all free from plastic packaging.

Positive News

Guardian newspaper switches to potato starch wrapping

BBC

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Gates highlights rising maternal deaths in US

Bill and Melinda Gates are getting ready to unveil their annual letter for 2019. One of the topics highlighted would be the disturbing trend of rising maternal deaths in the US, the worst of any developed country.

Business Insider

Kaiser kicks off housing investments

Kaiser Permanente realized that investment in housing is an investment in health, and so it’s offering funds to help keep apartment buildings affordable and finding housing for homeless residents.

Fast Company

Racism, sexism and bullying reported at Oxfam

BBC

ENVIRONMENT

NGO cleaning filthy NY harbor with 1B oysters

The New York Harbor for years has been polluted and depleted of marine life. But The Billion Oyster Project, a nonprofit is working to clean the murky water and revive its long-lost ecosystem — one oyster at a time.

CNN

How the world has changed in a decade

People are using the viral #10YearChallenge, where one posts a 2009 photo of yourself next to a recent one, on social media to reflect on bigger changes like climate change.

BBC

BUSINESS AND TRADE

Striking teachers hopeful as leaders rally

Union leaders urged striking Los Angeles teachers to turn out en masse for a rally marking the fifth day of their walkout, seeking to boost their bargaining position in marathon labor talks.

Al Jazeera

The rich take advantage of passport schemes

Passports that bestow special privileges — immunity from prosecution and diplomatic pouches — are increasingly being bought by dubious business people. African, Asian and small island nations have been caught.

Deutsche Welle

Photo of the Day

In health posts, a child’s weight, height and mid-upper arm circumference are taken and interpreted, which are used to make a diagnosis and properly advise mothers. (Photo by Sylvain Cherkaoui/DFID/ECHO/ACF) Photo used under CC BY

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