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Uighur Muslims in China. The Pentagon has said it estimates that up to 3 million Uighurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities were being held in “concentration camps,” one of the first times a U.S. official has used the term usually associated with the Holocaust. (Photo by Marc Curtis) Photo used under CC BY

Xinjiang’s human rights crisis getting worse

Recent attempts by the U.S. to push for change in what the U.S. military has now deemed “concentration camps” in China, have made little difference as a shocking human rights crisis continues to worsen.

Newsweek

US might blacklist China’s Hikvision over Uighur crackdown

Reuters

Stateless in Lebanon

Al Jazeera

CA elderly care homes exploiting workers

An investigation found rampant wage theft has pushed a vast majority of caregivers working in elder care facilities in California, into poverty. Human trafficking in which workers, particularly Filipinos, are coerced, manipulated and exploited is not uncommon.

PRI

Freed political prisoners struggle in Myanmar

Thousands of former political prisoners, after years behind bars, are facing the challenge of reintegrating into society with no form of restitution, recognition or support from Myanmar’s civilian-elected government.

Al Jazeera

Kenya court to rule if gay relations are criminal

The court ruling in Nairobi is expected to be a watershed moment for LGBTQ equality. Kenya’s courts, which many assume to be conservative on issues of sexuality, have recently ruled in favor of LGBTQ rights.

PBS

Russian support for LGBTQ rights hits 14-year high, poll says

The Moscow Times

Lack of child care keeps Brazilian women poor

Only 32 percent of all children under 3 in Brazil have access to day care. Mothers between 24 and 44 years of age with children under 1 have an employment rate of 41 percent, a survey found, while 92 percent of fathers in the same age bracket are employed.

Huffington Post

Indians with degrees finding harder to get jobs

Poor education standards and burdensome corporate regulation are just two of the reasons why jobs remain hard to come by for India’s graduates despite enviable economic growth rates.

Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

Global pedophile ring busted, 50 kids rescued

Fifty children have been rescued and nine people arrested after an Interpol investigation into an international pedophile ring. The arrests were made in Thailand, Australia and the U.S. and more are expected, Interpol said.

BBC

Children in social services system most at risk of being sex trafficked

The Epoch Times

Poll reveals Denmark is least feminist nation

A poll of more than 25,000 people in 23 major countries found one in six Danes consider themselves a feminist, a third said whistling at women in the street was acceptable, two in five had an unfavorable view of #MeToo.

Guardian

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Modi declares crushing victory in Indian polls

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has secured another five-year term after his Bharatiya Janata Party won a crushing victory winning over 300 of the 543 seats in parliament.

BBC

What Modi’s re-election in India means for the country

YouTube

India’s minorities fear return of Modi

CNN

Trump’s policy returning migrants to Mexico

More than 5,000 Central American asylum seekers have been returned to Mexico under the Trump administration’s controversial “Remain in Mexico” policy, aimed at stemming the unprecedented flow of migrants north.

CBS News

Mexicans hand over fake phones in muggings

The Independent

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Discovery may improve corn quality, yields

Researchers may be able to improve corn yields and nutritional value after discovering genetic regulators that synthesize starch and protein in corn. This could benefit millions across the world who rely on corn for nutrition.

Phys.org

Release more CO2 to limit climate change?

An unconventional new idea could actually slow the progress of global warming by putting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere —while removing a more potent planet-warming gas in the process.

Scientific American

GLOBAL HEALTH

WHO: Algeria, Argentina is now malaria-free

Algeria and Argentina have become the latest countries to be recognized as malaria-free by the World Health Organization, after recording no new cases for more than three years.

Telegraph.co.uk

Special section:

How the malaria vaccine could change world health

BBC

Pakistani kids worst affected in HIV outbreak

An outbreak that initially blamed a rogue pediatrician is now being linked to major failures in the health care system, including reuse of syringes and lack of standards for blood transfusions.

NPR

Health care tops list of Americans’ top issues

Health care is the top issue for Americans, according to a new poll from RealClear Opinion Research. The importance of the issue crossed gender, age and party lines, results show.

The Hill

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GOOD NEWS

Honduras school lifting kids out of poverty

A small group of Honduran teachers and their American backers are betting that an education at Honduran Independence Bilingual School can lift kids in a rural Honduran town from poverty.

MSN

Women bring light to remote Zanzibar villages

Grandmothers and single mothers are among those being trained as community solar engineers, a program which they say could transform lives in their communities.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

48-year-old mother of 3 qualifies for Olympic trials

Sunny Skyz

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

NY nonprofit training refugees for restaurants

Brooklyn restaurant Emma’s Torch doubles as a culinary training program for refugees, asylees, and survivors of human trafficking. It trains and helps place them in restaurant jobs across New York City.

Eater.com

Wellcome gives $101M for snakebite research

The London-based Wellcome Trust has announced a $101.8 million commitment in support of snakebite research and the distribution of antivenin.

Philanthropy News Digest

Businessman donates $100M to help Puerto Rico

CNN

ENVIRONMENT

Botswana lifts ban on elephant hunting

Botswana has scrapped its ban on hunting, citing an increase in conflicts between elephants and humans during the five years the rule was in place.

CNN

Raw ivory sales: Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia call for end to ban

Guardian

China using ozone-depleting chemicals

Scientists have solved an international environmental mystery by pinpointing the source of a troubling uptick in a dangerous, ozone-destroying chemical: Factories in northeastern China.

Axios

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Colorado signs new equal pay for work law

Colorado governor Jared Polis has signed equal pay for equal work into law. Labor statistics indicate women get paid 80 cents for every dollar a man makes in Colorado, with statistics for minority women, even worse.

FOX News

Ethiopians being paid world’s lowest wages?

ABC.net.au

San Francisco has highest billionaire density

Sitting on top of Silicon Valley, San Francisco has the highest density of billionaires in the world, according to a new “Billionaire Census” report from Wealth-X.

Gizmodo

Photo of the Day

Women wait by their sick babies while they receive treatment, in the municipal hospital of M‘banza Congo, Zaíre province. Pregnant women and children under age 5 in Angola are among the groups most vulnerable to the scourge of malaria. (Photo by Alison Bird/USAID) Photo used under CC BY

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