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India’s water crisis hits rural women hardest

Women in villages who must walk miles each day to fetch water are bearing the brunt of India’s worst water crisis in history. Activists are warning of serious impacts to their health and well-being.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

The global water crisis: Why are India’s taps running dry?

TIME

In Somalia, 98% of women face forced FGM

Female genital mutilation in Somalia is the highest in the world and constitutionally illegal, but pressure from conservative and religious groups prevents lawmakers from passing legislation to punish offenders.

Guardian

Syrian offensive leaves 55K children without aid

An estimated 55,000 Syrian children are cut off from aid and risk starvation after an offensive by President Bashar al-Assad triggered the single biggest displacement of the bloody seven-year war.

Reuters

Thousands leave besieged Syrian towns

BBC

UK police and security using children as spies

Children are being used to spy on terrorists, drug dealers and grooming gangs by police and security services in Britain. Concerns have been raise about juveniles’ safety and mental welfare as use of underage informants.

The Independent

Anglophone Cameroonians slain, abused

Government security forces and armed separatists have committed grave abuses against residents of Cameroon’s Anglophone region, said rights group Human Rights Watch.

allAfrica.com

Rohingya report more violence, persecution

Muslim Rohingya refugees reaching Bangladesh say violence, including torture, persists against them in Myanmar and the overall environment remains menacing.

Dhaka Tribune

HUMAN RIGHTS

Canadian report chronicles forced adoptions

Thousands of unwed Canadian mothers were forced to give up their babies for adoption in the decades after the Second World War, victimized by a national drive to promote the traditional nuclear family.

Global News

Anti-terror law threatens human rights in Iraq

Kurdistan parliament’s renewal of the Anti-Terror Law has shown the plight of some 1,200 people, mostly Arabs, who are in jails. The process is plagued with “rampant due process violations,” Human Rights Watch said.

Al-Monitor

Wiki foundation wants African contributors

Wikipedia contributors are few in Africa. The custodians of the free online encyclopedia and other Wiki resources are gathered in South Africa to talk about “decolonizing the internet.”

allAfrica.com

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

US turns blind eye to Uganda democratic crisis

In exchange for Uganda’s military favors, Washington has turned a blind eye to grave human-rights abuses committed by its leader Museveni—who has held power for 32 years through brute force.

The Nation

Pakistan democracy on verge before elections

Although the elections are being supervised by a neutral interim civilian government, the real power appears to rest with Pakistan’s military and the judiciary, which see undiluted democracy as a threat.

Foreign Affairs

S. Sudan president ready to accept peace deal

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir said he is ready to accept a peace deal to end a civil war and set up an inclusive new government with five vice presidents.

Reuters

South Sudanese refugees in Sudan are in dire need of international aid: IFRC

Sudan Tribune

US offers aid to Hamas in exchange for peace

The U.S. called on Hamas to stop terror, return Israeli prisoners to their families and, in exchange, receive aid to improve the situation in the Gaza Strip in a column published by the Washington Post.

The Jerusalem Post

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Africans resist genetically modified seeds

Seeds modified in a lab are often touted as a means to boost agriculture and food security in Africa. There is some resistance on the continent and debate on preserving its traditional seed base instead.

Deutsche Welle

Consumers voice concerns about GMO foods

Ag Week

See what scientists thought about lunar living

A look at Meltzer’s 1969 illustration of a moon colony reveals a cafeteria, a hydroponic farm, and a ping-pong game. According to the caption, “a small observatory studies the heavens, undimmed by Earth’s atmosphere.”

National Geographic

GLOBAL HEALTH

HRW urges Brazil to regulate pesticides more

Human Rights Watch urged the Brazilian government to establish buffer zones nationwide when pesticides are sprayed and reduce the use of highly toxic products.

Tampa Bay Times

‘Complacency’ to HIV epidemic risks revival

While HIV rates were falling overall, they remained persistent in marginalized groups, younger people, particularly women, and in developing countries, all of whom were less likely to access treatment.

BBC

Michel Sidibé rebukes controversy in his office

YouTube

Sudan calls on agencies to open aid corridors

As the conflict in South Sudan enters its fifth year, the humanitarian crisis has continued to intensify and expand, on a costly trajectory for the country’s people and their outlook.

Xinhua

Leprosy spreads through Brazilian armadillos

Hunting and eating armadillos can mean a greater risk of getting sick with leprosy. These activities are prohibited in Brazil, but remain common where these animals abound and other sources of protein are scarce.

SciDev

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GOOD NEWS

UNICEF announced $6M Primark partnership

Primark will donate $6 million to UNICEF’s education and emergency response work over three years, $4.5 million will go to fund an education program in Cambodia and $1.5 million to emergency response operations.

Civil Society Media

Plane passengers donate money to teacher

A teacher on a plane talked about her low-income students and passengers gave her more than $500 in cash. She teaches at a charter school where most kids come hungry.

MSN

London uses signals to encourage pedestrians

Walkers in busy parts of London will get right of way over traffic in an attempt to encourage people to make more journeys on foot.

Positive News

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Nonprofits lack sexual, gender diversity

About four out of five nonprofit CEOS say that racial diversity is relevant to their organizations. Other forms of diversity, such as gender identity and sexual orientation, are viewed as less relevant.

NonProfit Times

Hearst Foundations give $2.8M to nonprofits

The Hearst Foundations awarded $2.8 million in grants to California nonprofits that work in health, education, culture and social services, according to a recent statement.

San Francisco Chronicle

ENVIRONMENT

Planes impact the environment, solutions

The aviation industry is a crucial cog in the global economy and our thirst for air travel has an environmental impact.

CNBC

Climate change is disrupting the seasons

Four decades of temperature observations show what many suspected: Human activity is disrupting the behavior of plants, animals, and the march of the seasons.

Bloomberg

Rising sea levels will affect the internet soon

Hundreds of thousands of miles of cables and their connections, under roads and across oceans, make up the backbone of the internet. Despite its magnitude, this network is increasingly vulnerable to rising sea levels.

Each spring, geese migrate over 1,800 miles from the Netherlands and Germany to breeding grounds above the Arctic Circle. That pattern is changing, as rising temperatures lead to earlier springs in the Arctic.

NPR

ECONOMY

S. Africa urged to make bold economic steps

South Africa’s political leaders have balked at the “radical” steps needed to cut excessive state costs and stabilize the nation’s finances, according to Sipho Pityana, head of one of the nation’s biggest business groups.

Bloomberg

Venezuela using petro to skirt sanctions

Because of the financial crisis and current U.S. sanctions, Venezuela is leveraging oil by looking to the East to make up for lost profits. However, these moves may not be enough to get Venezuela out of economic hardship.

Mehr News Agency

Former Nigerian Minister hired to Twitter board

A former Nigerian minister of finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been appointed into the board of social media giant Twitter Inc. Okonjo-Iweala is expected to be a strong asset for the company as it strives toward transparency in its global operations.

Premium Times

Ethiopian migrant brings Italy alive with goats

Agitu Idea Gudeta has built up a thriving business in her adopted Italy making goat’s cheese and beauty products in just a few years since fleeing her native Ethiopia in 2010 over a land dispute.

Reuters

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A little boy plays with drums before prayers begin at Zangtopelri Temple, Kanglung, Bhutan. (Photo by kartografia) Photo used under CC BY

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