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Lab technicians undergo malaria microscopy training at the Nigerian Air Force hospital near Lagos. The UN announced a framework for malaria prevention calling for greater coordination among development sectors. (Photo by Rick Scavetta/ US Army)

Sex trafficking a serious problem in US

Commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of minors are serious problems in the U.S. with long-term adverse consequences for society as a whole, says a new report.

ScienceDaily

The sex industry’s shadow victims: boys

The Daily Beast

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Report: Sexually-exploited minors too often treated as criminals, not victims

(NBCNews.com)

U.S. News

Qatar’s World Cup ‘slaves’

Dozens of Nepalese migrant laborers have died in Qatar in recent weeks and more are enduring labor abuses, a Guardian investigation has found, raising questions about Qatar’s preparations for the 2022 World Cup.

Guardian

Qatar’s future World Cup is already a total disaster

The Atlantic Wire

Iran’s president: Europe, US sound ‘different’

Western leaders have said Iran seems to sound different under the leadership of newly elected President Hassan Rouhani.

CNN

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard unveils attack drone

Yahoo! News

Venezuela cuts red tape on imports of essential goods

Vice-President Jorge Arreaza said the government was cutting red tape for companies willing to facilitate the import of goods such as food, toiletries and mechanical parts, which have been in short supply.

BBC

Venezuelan president skips UN, saying enemies had plot to kill him

McClatchy Newspapers

Police tear gas 13,000 teachers in Nigeria

Men of the Rivers State Police Command tear-gassed about 13,000 newly recruited teachers, accusing them of planning to hold a demonstration against President Goodluck Jonathan.

allAfrica.com

Syria given November deadline to destroy all chemical weapons facilities

Syria will have to destroy all its chemical weapons production facilities by the beginning of November and completely dismantle its entire arsenal of poison gases and nerve agents by the middle of next year.

Guardian

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Pakistanis in quake disaster zone struggle for food, shelter, medical supplies

Survivors built makeshift shelters with sticks and bedsheets, a day after their mud houses were flattened in an earthquake that killed 285 people in southwestern Pakistan and pushed a new island up out of the Arabian Sea.

Japan Times

Island appears after Pakistan earthquake

Vancouver Sun

Multisectoral action framework for malaria launched

World leaders gathered alongside the 68th U.N. General Assembly to launch an inclusive approach to fighting malaria, a disease which — despite tremendous advances — still kills an estimated 660,000 each year.

allAfrica.com

HUMAN RIGHTS

Baka pygmies drink up their voting rights

Trade amongst the Baka — historically called pygmies — is basically by barter rather than financial exchange. People can exchange a voter ID card for two “sachets” of the liquor, worth CFA 200 — less than half a dollar.

IPS

Transgender in the Schoolyard: across America, uneven access to rights

As some states chalk up major wins for the LGBT community, others are doing their best to undermine the rights of a most vulnerable population: transgender students.

AlterNet

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Collective rights ‘offer hope for global fisheries’

Collective community-based rights could put the world’s fisheries on a sustainable footing after decades of over-exploitation, an expert suggests.

BBC

Law change sought to keep fish farmers out of jail

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Asia to be the new hub for millionaires

The number of millionaires in the Asia-Pacific grew twice as fast as the rest of the world from 2007 to 2012, an annual Asia-Pacific Wealth Report by the Royal Bank of Canada and consultancy firm Capgemini shows.

Sydney Morning Herald

World’s wealth set to shift to Asia from US and Europe

BBC

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Documents show US spied on Martin Luther King

The U.S. NSA eavesdropped on civil rights icon Martin Luther King and boxer Muhammad Ali as well as other leading critics of the Vietnam War in a secret program later deemed “disreputable,” declassified documents have revealed.

Al Jazeera

China free trade zone ‘to allow banned websites’

In a rare exception to strict Internet controls, a Hong Kong newspaper reported that China’s first free trade zone will allow access to Facebook, Twitter and other websites that are currently banned nationwide.

Japan Times

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Mobile phones have been a gift for development, says Jeffrey Sachs

Access to, and the use of, technology should not be a standalone goal in any future development agenda because it will be the tool by which the targets will be achieved, according to Jeffrey Sachs.

(Guardian)

Poverty Matters

With Facebook’s internet.org, the battle for the third world is on

Gigaom

$50,000 strawberry-picking robot to go on sale in Japan

The machine moves on rails in a greenhouse. It has a 3D stereo camera system to image the berries and judge which ones are ripe according to color.

CNET News

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Eugenie C. Scott and Minda Berbeco):

A move is afoot to keep climate science out of classrooms

Scientific American

Column (Thomas McGath):

Get out while you can: why young Americans should emigrate

AlterNet

Blog (Jo Becker):

Fewer child workers is still way too many

(Human Rights Watch)

Dispatches

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GOOD NEWS

Ginger Passarelli is a good Samaritan with a soup ladle

Whenever there‘s an emergency, you can bet that Passarelli is there with a soup ladle, feeding the firefighters, policemen or search-and-rescue crews.

Christian Science Monitor

Sponsor a university student in Spain

Adopt a tree. Adopt a polar bear. Sponsor a child in a poor country. The concept has caught on in Spain’s troubled academic system and now people and companies can sponsor a student at the University of Málaga.

IPS

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

Nonprofits wait as government shutdown looms

Organizations that depend on federal grants could see their revenue dry up, and those that provide social services, such as food and shelter, would likely see an increase in need from clients deprived of federal programs.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Forty kids and counting

The story of one young woman’s journey from New Jersey to Nepal — and how, along the way, she adopted 40 children, opened up a school, and helped women empower their community.

Women In The World

ENVIRONMENT

Global warming ‘extremely likely’ man-made, climate panel says

Scientists can now say with extreme confidence that human activity is the dominant cause of the global warming observed since the 1950s, a new report by an international scientific group.

Denver Post

UN climate report blames humans

CNN

How do earthquake early warning systems work?

Earthquakes seem to come out of nowhere and can cause widespread devastation. Building codes and safety videos provide only so much protection.

National Geographic

Photo of the Day

Japanese and American scientists are setting up a reef observation machine off the coast of Japan. Water quality improvements can bolster reef resilience to bleaching and reduce water acidification. (Photo by Jerry Reid/ USFWS)

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