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During the pandemic gender-based violence has surged, women’s jobs have become 1.8 times as vulnerable as men’s and the care burden has increased. Widespread lockdowns have resulted in an increase in domestic abuse and FGM practices across Kenya, with more abuses still to come. (Photo by Davida3) Photo used under CC BY

Most countries failing women amid coronavirus pandemic

Most countries are failing to adequately protect women and girls during the fallout from Covid-19, according to a new UN database. The UN projected the poverty rate among women would increase by 9.1%, with gender-based violence trailing close behind.

Guardian

Being a black woman in the US is ‘painful’

BBC

Mexican women demanding legalization of abortion clash with police

Reuters

Climate change threatens African heritage sites

Extreme weather events, the rise in sea levels, and other challenges associated with the changing climate are threatening to destroy invaluable African cultural landmarks, a recent study warns.

BBC

COVID-19 outbreak claims 1M lives across the globe

The world reached 1 million total confirmed coronavirus deaths, a jarring milestone in a pandemic that has claimed an average of 3,819 lives per day since the start of the year and shows few signs of relenting. Experts warn the true death toll may be even higher.

Forbes

US ranks at top of the world’s coronavirus death toll

CNN

Virus creates millions of ‘new poor’ in E. Asia

Up to 38 million people in East Asian and Pacific countries will be pushed into poverty by the coronavirus crisis, the World Bank has said. It will be the region’s first increase in poverty in 20 years.

Deutsche Welle

WHO rolls out COVID-19 tests for poor nations

The WHO announced that it and leading partners have agreed to a plan to roll out 120 million rapid-diagnostic tests for the coronavirus to help lower- and middle-income countries make up ground in the testing gap.

Associated Press

Botswana’s emergency measures to combat virus

ABC News

Palestinians seek new ways to achieve peace

Al-Aqsa Mosque is as quiet today as it was turbulent 20 years ago when it gave its name to the Palestinian uprising that began beneath its walls. Today, young Palestinians seek new ways to achieve political goals.

Reuters

Israelis protest bill to stifle protests

Reuters

HUMAN RIGHTS

Human remains found in mass graves in Mexico

Dozens of fragments of human remains were discovered in clandestine graves in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, Mexican authorities said, as violence rises in the conflict-torn state.

Reuters

Amnesty to halt work in India due to ‘witch hunt’

Amnesty International has been forced to shut down operations in India after the Indian government froze its bank accounts after the group published two reports highly critical of the government’s human rights record.

Guardian

Hundreds protest after Indian rape victim dies

A woman from the lowest rung of India’s caste system died weeks after authorities said she was raped by a group of men, triggering protests in New Delhi with hundreds gathering at the hospital where her body lay.

Reuters

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

Civilian death toll climbs in Armenia, Azerbaijan

Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other of firing directly into each other’s territory beyond the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, as the worst regional fighting since the 1990s raged for a third day and civilian deaths mounted.

Reuters

Fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan threatens to spiral into full-blown war

NPR

Trump, Biden prepare to debate amid crises

In an election year like no other, the first debate between President Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, could be a pivotal moment in a race that has remained unchanged in the face of historic tumult.

Associated Press

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Buried lakes of water discovered on Mars

Three new underground lakes have been detected near the south pole of Mars. Scientists also confirmed the existence of a fourth lake - the presence of which was hinted at in 2018.

BBC

AI ‘resurrects’ 54 Roman emperors

Ancient Roman emperors’ faces have been brought to life in digital reconstructions; the unnervingly realistic image project includes the Emperors Caligula, Nero and Hadrian, among many others.

LiveScience

Super-enzyme eats plastic six times faster

A super-enzyme that degrades plastic bottles six times faster than before has been created by scientists and could be used for recycling within a year or two.

Guardian

GLOBAL HEALTH

COVID second wave explodes across Myanmar

Myanmar has entered a critical phase in its fight against a powerful second wave of COVID-19 as de facto national leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her administration seeks to control the outbreak by intensifying lockdown measures.

Asia Times Online

COVID has now killed more than 1M people

The coronavirus has killed at least 1 million people across the globe, a nightmarish milestone in the world’s fight against the virus that emerged from Wuhan, China, late last year, according to Johns Hopkins University.

CNBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Rahila Gupta):

Treaties alone can’t protect women from violence

CNN

Column (Jeff Orlowski):

We need to rethink social media before it’s too late

Guardian

Column (Kyaw Win):

Ongoing oppression of Rohingya highlighted again

Asia Times Online

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GOOD NEWS

Florida’s fire department first all-female crew

Photo of 1st all-female crew in Florida fire department’s 57-year history goes viral. A group of five women are inspiring as the first, all-female fire crew in the 57-year history of the Palm Beach Gardens Fire Rescue.

Good Morning America

Bavarian leader follows California on gas cars

The governor of Bavaria, the state that’s home to German automakers BMW and Audi, has backed a deadline for phasing out gasoline-powered vehicles akin to the 2035 date proposed by California.

ABC News

When a farmer suffered a heart attack, 60 neighbors showed up to help out on his farm

CBS News

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Plumber’s program introduces girls to trades

Eager to share her knowledge and help raise the low percentage of women in construction trades, Judaline Cassidy created a program that puts tools in the hands of girls as young as six years old.

CNN

Adoptable pets featured in NBA playoff game

During Game 3 between the L.A. Lakers and the Denver Nuggets, the broadcast cut to 30 pets and their fosters filling virtual courtside seats, with an announcement that they were all “100% adoptable and 100% adorable”.

Today

ENVIRONMENT

France bans use of wild animals in circuses

France’s environment minister has announced a gradual ban on using wild animals in traveling circuses, on keeping dolphins and killer whales in captivity in marine parks and on raising mink on fur farms.

Associated Press

Fighting alone for climate action in China

Teen activist Howey Ou fights for environmental change in China, her home and the world’s biggest polluter.

Vice

Anti-coal campaigners protest at German mine

Hundreds of anti-coal activists staged protesters in and around a mine in western Germany, demonstrating against the continued extraction and use of fossil fuels in Europe’s biggest economy.

ABC News

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

Pandemic wrecks struggling Kashmir tourism

When Kashmir went into a coronavirus lockdown in March, tourism in the Indian-administered territory had already been hobbled by months of security restrictions. Those who rely on tourism say the pandemic has compounded the financial shock.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Tunisia’s shrinking economy, fish stocks put shark on the menu

Guardian

Jobless hospitality workers face bleak future

Hospitality workers make up nearly 10% of the workforce in Los Angeles. Before COVID-19, that added up to nearly half a million jobs. The pandemic has decimated the workforce.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Photo of the Day

Protestors in Rotterdam, the Netherlands stand together to support the Black Lives Matter movement and the fight for racial equality (Photo by Wouter Engler) Photo used under CC BY

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