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Children work at a brick kiln in Siem Reap, Cambodia, in 2013. (Photo by ILO Asia-Pacific) Photo used under CC BY

Cambodian brick kilns still exploiting child labor

Thousands of Cambodian families are estimated to be victims of bonded labour in the brick sector, where kiln owners offer loans to struggling workers and leverage the debts to trap them.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Syrian kids labor to support war-torn families

Nine years into the Syrian war, child labor has seriously increased in al-Shaddadi, Syria, where children work long hours amid miserable and exploitative conditions.

Al-Monitor

Fighting closes in on displaced families in northwest Syria

CNN

US, Taliban agreement may pave road to peace

The U.S. says it has reached a deal with the Taliban in Afghanistan that lays out what could be the first steps toward ending America’s longest-running war. Administration officials say there will be a seven-day “reduction in violence” as a confidence-building measure.

NPR

Mexican activists protest femicide at palace

Dozens of activists gathered outside Mexico’s presidential palace to protest violence against women, chanting “Not one murder more” and splashing a large, ornate door with blood-red paint and the words “femicide state.”

Guardian

Iraqi women challenge call for segregation

Al Jazeera

Indonesia abandons ex-ISIS members in Syria

The Indonesian government has finally taken the decision not to repatriate hundreds of Indonesian ISIS fighters and supporters stranded in Kurdish-controlled prisons and detention camps, calling them a “virus.”

Asia Times Online

The inconvenient truth about ISIS

The Atlantic

HUMAN RIGHTS

Putin rules out Russia legalizing gay marriage

Putin has sought to distance Russia from liberal Western values, including attitudes towards homosexuality and gender fluidity.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Syrian women, girls sold into sexual slavery

Syria’s refugee crisis has shone a light on sex trafficking in Lebanon, where victims are often treated as criminals.

Al Jazeera

Syrians scramble for refuge in last opposition frontier

Associated Press

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Syrian army strengthens Aleppo grip

Syrian government forces have made significant advances in their military push against the last major rebel bastion in the country’s northwest - forcing hundreds of thousands of people from their homes.

Al Jazeera

Deadline for unified S. Sudan government looms

Rival leaders in war-torn South Sudan face a deadline to form a long-delayed government of national unity. Rebel chief Riek Machar and President Salva Kiir have disagreed over the creation of new states.

Al Jazeera

Duterte delivers deathblow to US-Philippine ties

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has effectively ended his country’s century-old alliance with the U.S., a move that will have ramifications for the region’s strategic balance of power including in the South China Sea.

Asia Times Online

Thai shooting shows lack of military discipline

After shooting dead a rogue soldier gunman in a Thai shopping mall where he killed at least 30 people, Thailand’s military faces hard new scrutiny of its ability to secure weapons and control troops at its bases and barracks.

Asia Times Online

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

‘Ghost’ human ancestor discovered in W. Africa

A mysterious “ghost population” of now-extinct ancient human-like creatures may have interbred with early humans living in West Africa, scientists say.

BBC

Astronomers sweep sky for extraterrestrial life

Astronomers will sweep the entire sky for signs of extraterrestrial life for the first time, using 28 giant radio telescopes in an unprecedented hunt for alien civilizations.

Guardian

Inside China’s mission to create digital yuan

First discussed more than five years ago, China’s DCEP (short for Digital Currency/Electronic Payments) looks to be nearing completion. It will be the world’s first sovereign digital currency.

Asia Times Online

App helps reunite families with lost children

Indian police have reunited thousands of missing and trafficked children with their families using a new facial recognition app that campaigners said was a “game changer” in tackling the problem.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Scientists ♥ their emojis, but It’s complicated

The scientific community has lots of feelings about emoji representation. Geologists are excited about the new rock emoji, for example, but reviews are mixed when it comes to the fly.

NPR

GLOBAL HEALTH

Safe sex on Valentine’s Day in Mexico City

Residents in Mexico’s sprawling capital were encouraged to play it safe on Valentine’s Day, as 100,000 condoms were distributed across the city’s metro stations in the run up to the annual love fest.

Reuters

Progress made in fight against Ebola

As China and the world try to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus, the fight against another deadly disease, Ebola, has reached an encouraging “milestone,” the World Health Organization said.

CNN

Reports on oil pollution show birth defects

The oil industry in South Sudan has left a landscape pocked with hundreds of open waste pits - water and soil contaminated with toxic chemicals and heavy metals. The reports also contain accounts of “alarming” birth defects.

Associated Press

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GOOD NEWS

1st transgender woman to play pro soccer

Mara Gómez spent years playing in local women’s leagues in Buenos Aires province before being signed recently by Villa San Carlos in the first division. She is waiting for confirmation from the AFA if she can play.

Associated Press

Wheelchair-using toddler identifies with ad

One-year-old Oliver Garza-Pena of Peoria, Arizona, who uses a wheelchair, was left stunned during a trip to Target after seeing a poster that featured a boy just like him.

People

Parents get impromptu baby shower on flight

CBS News

NONPROFIT & PHILANTHROPY

LeBron James’ students receive free tuition

The LeBron James Family Foundation announced that it will provide four years of free tuition for eligible students in the school’s first graduating class in partnership with Kent State University.

Good Morning America

This New York deli offers customers free food if they can solve simple math problems

CNN

ENVIRONMENT

Compost funerals ‘better for environment’

A US firm has given scientific details of its “human composting” process for environmentally friendly funerals. The process takes 30 days and relatives can then scatter the remains on plants or under a tree.

BBC

Inside Australia’s climate emergency: the taps run dry

Guardian

Drought, bushfires and rainstorms turn Australian rivers black

Guardian

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

Child labor in Cambodia despite crackdown

Poverty fueled partly by climate change has pushed countless Cambodian families - often rural farmers - into the country’s booming brick industry.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Ethiopian female migrants risk all for Saudi

They are among the most vulnerable of the tens of thousands of migrants making the long and perilous trek from Ethiopia to Saudi Arabia in search of jobs: Women and girls as young as 13.

Associated Press

From drugs to flowers: Colombia‘s Valentine’s Day rose boom

Al Jazeera

Photo of the Day

Singaporeans celebrate Chinese New Year on Jan. 25, 2020. (Photo by cattan2011) Photo used under CC BY

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