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Boys in Jakarta, Indonesia. Despite its middle income status, Indonesia is dealing with unexpectedly high rates of childhood stunting. (Photo by Indo_girl2010) Photo used under CC BY

Why Indonesia’s children are not growing normally

37 percent of Indonesia’s children are stunted, a rate on par with some far more impoverished nations of Sub-Saharan Africa, World Bank says. President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has now elevated the issue to a national priority.

Voice of America

‘Peaceful’ Greek refugee camp raises hope

Run by Lesbos residents, a short distance from Moria, one of the world’s worst camps, Pikpa provides for the most vulnerable — families with children, pregnant women, disabled refugees and those with medical conditions.

Al Jazeera

Syrians displaced by war brace for winter

Channel NewsAsia

Children suffer sexual abuse in Moria camp

Newsweek

Afghans brave violence, chaos to cast votes

A series of deadly attacks and administrative chaos marred Afghanistan’s long-delayed parliamentary elections on Saturday, but large numbers of voters still braved the threats and long queues to cast their ballots.

Guardian

UN panel to fund climate adaptation projects

The Global Commission on Adaptation, launched by the United Nations and backed by the most powerful and wealthiest in the biz, aims to fund climate adaptation projects and educate policymakers about adaptation options.

Gizmodo

Meteorologists push for climate change awareness

NBCNews.com

Landless Brazilian workers revitalize land

When a group of Brazilian families occupied disused farmland, they found lifeless soil and water. Fifteen years on, they have brought it back to health. Their story is part of a larger battle over Brazil’s farming future.

Deutsche Welle

Will humanity survive 21st century?

One of the world’s leading cosmologists, Martin Rees gives civilization a 50-50 chance of surviving the 21st century, an estimate he reached after surveying ways humanity could destroy itself. His biggest fear? Enhanced tech.

Vox

HUMAN RIGHTS

Estimates of slavery in UK reach 136,000

People trafficked into the UK are coerced by debt, fraud and false promises, as well as violence and physical intimidation. One story told of a family forcing the mentally ill into working for them without payment.

Guardian

Climate change chains Cambodians to slavery

abc.net.au

Indonesians subjected to virginity testing

Women looking to become police officers in Indonesia are reported to have to undergo an invasive “two-finger” virginity test and be “pretty” as a part of the recruitment process.

abc.net.au

UN agencies urge to end virginity testing

TIME

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Queensland parliament legalizes abortion

Abortion will become legal until 22 weeks gestation, thereafter with approval of doctors in Queensland, after parliament voted to support new legislation, erasing a 119-year-old “morality” section of the state’s criminal code.

Guardian

Women in U.S. can now get safe abortions by mail

The Atlantic

Bhutan chooses new party for government

Bhutan voted in a new party headed by Dr. Lotay Tshering, a urology surgeon who vowed to work for “nation building” in the Himalayan kingdom battling high foreign debt, youth employment, rural poverty and criminal gangs.

Channel NewsAsia

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Data project aims to stop human trafficking

IBM Corp’s, company Western Union Co and European police launched a project that will collect information on money moving around the world and compare it to known ways that traffickers move their illicit gains.

Reuters

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Growth of Internet access slowing down

Guardian

A blue pill is stopping HIV, study shows

An antiviral pill taken daily by thousands of men across Australia has led to a globally unprecedented reduction in new HIV cases, showing that a targeted, preventative approach may aid ending the AIDS epidemic.

The Japan Times

GLOBAL HEALTH

How scientists hope to wipe out malaria

Up to 10,000 genetically modified mosquitoes will be released in Burkina Faso, Africa. This possible alternative solution would wipe out malaria carrying mosquitoes through blocking female reproduction in the species.

Telegraph.co.uk

Researcher studies effects of dung burning

Animal dung is used globally for heating and cooking. People from poor countries cannot afford cleaner fuels and must rely on biomass fuels to live. One researcher aims to find out how biomass smoke contributes to lung disease.

NPR

Heart disease is now striking the world’s poor

HIV/AIDS or malaria is not the world’s biggest killer. Research shows that heart disease is responsible for a third of all global deaths, and most of them are in the developing world.

Vox

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GOOD NEWS

Indian state now only farms organic produce

India’s state of Sikkim has won the award for the being the 100 percent organic state that promotes agro-ecological and sustainable food systems. The hundred full transition has benefited more than 66,000 farming families.

India Times

NGO makes disease-fighting shoes for poor

Over one billion people around the world are infected with parasites that enter through their shoeless feet — 300 million are in Africa alone. Samaritan’s Feet’s plastic shoes with antimicrobial properties solves this problem.

CBS News

Young cancer survivor helps others cope

After sharing her battle with leukemia, Sadie Keller, now cancer-free, founded a non-profit giving gifts to children and fighting from Congress to the White House for more pediatric cancer research funding.

YouTube

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Aid workers being overrun by Boko Haram

Aid workers struggle to serve the millions of people in need of assistance in the Borno State of Nigeria. Humanitarian access to Boko Haram-controlled areas is limited because of raids and kidnappings.

IRIN

New nonprofit helps match poor with doctors

Physician shortages, cost and distance can make specialty care prohibitive for many low-income patients. A nonprofit aims to tackle those challenges by utilizing tele-health tech and retiring, volunteer doctors.

PBS NewsHour

One NGO seeks to farm with discarded silt

Manmade lakes created by dams around the world create a silt problem that is solved by an expensive dredging process. An NGO has taken the nutrient rich silt and found a way to grow legumes and cereal grains.

New York Magazine

ENVIRONMENT

Diwali fireworks add smog to Delhi air

With a toxic smog beginning to envelop New Delhi, residents of the Indian capital are set to make matters a lot worse by burning hundreds of thousands of firecrackers to celebrate the Hindu festival of Diwali early next month.

Reuters

Trump on climate change: ‘It’ll change back’

Donald Trump has reiterated his doubts about climate change, suggesting that the climate could “change back again”, and that climate scientists are politically motivated.

Guardian

World’s largest organism, Pando, is dying

The largest organism in the world, a grove of quaking aspens called Pando thought to be thousands of years old, is dying due to human encroachment including campgrounds, power lines, hiking trails and cabins.

Forbes

Chinese demand fuels mass deforestation

Al Jazeera

ECONOMY AND TRADE

Young Africans look to modernize farming

Many African youth are abandoning rural areas, choosing not to toil in the fields — a job made touger by climate change. But some are working to jazz up agriculture’s image.

Reuters

UN: Invest in farming to tackle youth migration

Guardian

Thai government to reform agro sector

The Thai government plans to increase livelihoods for 1.3 million rice farmers by growing alternative crops, while help is being extended to sugarcane growers too.

Asia Times Online

Marijuana legalization hurts poor nations

As Canada becomes the first of many industrial nations to fully legalize marijuana, countries like Morocco and Jamaica, where the crop has traditionally been grown, risk losing new legal markets worth billions of dollars.

CNN

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Children at play, Manado, Indonesia. (Photo by Ben Pederick, Good Morning Beautiful Films / DFAT) Photo used under CC BY

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