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Uganda police are accused of abusing street children

A new report by the NGO AfriChild captures the state of violence against street children in Uganda. The street children accuse police of various levels of harassment, including rape, assault and theft.

The Observer

Boko Haram hamper polio eradication

The complicated fight against polio is yet another way the Nigeria-based extremist group Boko Haram has disrupted life in the northeast, leaving children vulnerable to an entirely preventable disease.

ABC News

Former Boko Haram captive tells her story

BBC

Sexual abuse rampant at ISIS refugee camps

Women and children in Iraq connected to Islamic State militants are being placed in refugee camps, where they are subjected to sexual abuse and denied basic needs like food and water, according to an Amnesty International report.

USA TODAY

German raids target trafficking, prostitution

More than 100 people have been detained across Germany in raids against an organised crime gang involved in people trafficking and forced prostitution.

BBC

The cost of war against Taliban for Pakistan

Rights groups allege war against the armed group has included a shadowy campaign of enforced disappearances in Pakistan.

Al Jazeera

Child soldiers freed in South Sudan

Thousands of children have been forced to join the military and other armed groups in South Sudan since the oil-rich country became engulfed in civil war in 2013. UNICEF has helped release 500 so far this year.

CNN

Human experience will always speak louder than any campaign

Guardian

HUMAN RIGHTS

Tanzania: Freedom of expression deteriorating

Tanzania’s new law regulating online content is continuing to generate protest. Critics say President Magufuli is deliberately targeting freedom of expression.

Deutsche Welle

Denmark brokers human rights reform package

Following a high-level conference in Copenhagen, the Council of Europe has formally adopted a declaration on human rights reform.

The Copenhagen Post

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

The end of the Castro era

Members of Cuba’s National Assembly are holding a two-day session in Havana which will mark the end of the Castro era.

BBC

Erdogan declares early elections on June 24

Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan has called a snap presidential and parliamentary election on June 24, more than a year earlier than planned, saying the country urgently needed to make the switch to an executive presidency.

Reuters

Turkey‘s anti-war protesters detained: ’Everything is a crime’

BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

NASA’s spacecraft on quest to find new planets

NASA’s Tess spacecraft has embarked on a quest to find new worlds around neighboring stars that could support life. Tess rode a SpaceX Falcon rocket through the evening sky, aiming for an orbit stretching all the way to the moon.

Phys.org

The global race for 5G technology is on

Around the world, the race is on to deploy new, powerful 5G technology. Despite the United States’ technological dominance in the past, there are troubling signs that we may be falling behind in a global contest that several other countries are intent on winning.

Forbes

China is beating the United States in the race for 5G

CNN

GLOBAL HEALTH

Malaria experts fear disease’s resurgence

For the first time in 10 years, global malaria cases are no longer falling, sparking concerns about a resurgence of the too often deadly disease. Experts, and philanthropist Bill Gates, are urging country leaders gathering at the Commonwealth summit in London to pledge more money to fight the illness.

BBC

Africa: Blood transfusion can spread malaria

allAfrica.com

A flesh-eating disease is spreading in Australia

Experts warned that cases of Buruli ulcer, an infectious disease that causes “severe destructive lesions of skin and soft tissue” and can leave permanent damage or result in death, are “rapidly increasing,” particularly in the Australian state of Victoria.

Teen Vogue

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GOOD NEWS

Customer leaves $2,000 tip at restaurant

“Mike” from Seattle tipped $300 on his $769 meal (or 39 percent) before going into the kitchen and giving each of the 17 kitchen staff members a $100 bill, praising them for the service and food.

MSN

Dog provides support for marathon runners

A cute dog provided some encouragement for runners during an exceptionally soggy Boston Marathon while he sat on the sidelines.

MSN

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

$3.8B pledged to halve malaria cases

Governments, businesses, and philanthropies have pledged a total of £2.7 billion ($3.8 billion) in support of efforts to halve the number of malaria cases in Commonwealth countries over the next five years.

Philanthropy News Digest

#MeToo hits the nonprofit world

One in four women fundraisers have been sexually harassed on the job, according to an exclusive Chronicle and Association of Fundraising Professionals survey.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

ENVIRONMENT

Sea levels rising rapidly, new research shows

Melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are speeding up the already fast pace of sea level rise, new satellite research shows. At the current rate, the world’s oceans on average will be at least 2 feet higher by the end of the century compared to today.

Deccan Chronicle

Study: Global warming is weakening key ocean circulation

U.S. News & World Report

China’s pollution war may be at a “stalemate”

Air pollution rose by more than a quarter in parts of northern China in March, and the region has been hit by another bout of smog in the second half of April, which the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) has blamed on weak air circulation.

Reuters

ECONOMY

US cities with the fastest-growing wealth gaps

Migration from crowded and expensive Pacific Coast cities has propelled Boise -- the capital of Idaho -- onto the list of top 10 gainers in the Bloomberg rich versus poor gap ranking of metropolitan areas from close to the bottom.

Bloomberg

Inspection opened into Tesla for workplace safety

CNNMoney

Rising debts pose risk to Nigeria - IMF

The International Monetary Fund has expressed concerns about Nigeria’s debt servicing capacity, as the size of the total debt keeps rising against its revenue.

allAfrica.com

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Farmers’ market in Armenia (Photo by Danny Hunter - Bioversity International) Photo used under CC BY

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