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According to the last census, exactly 649,481 rural communities, hamlets, and burghs sprinkle India. They are home to two-thirds of the nation’s 1.3 billion people. A lawsuit by environmentalists in India could lead to millions of Adivasi being displaced from their ancestral lands. (Photo by Collin Key) Photo used under CC BY

Millions of indigenous face eviction in India

A supreme court lawsuit brought by a coalition of conservation groups threatens to evict as many as 7 million Adivasi from their forest homes. Conservationists argue hundreds of thousands of indigenous rights claims were bogus and promoted land invasions.

National Geographic

UN calls on Qatar to reform workers’ rights

United Nations member states have called upon Qatar to reform its domestic workers’ rights policy and ban capital punishment. Qatar is one of the 14 states currently undergoing a Human Rights Council assessment.

Al Jazeera

Egypt calls on Qatar to end enforced disappearances

Middle East Monitor

Governments must prepare for cataclysmic weather

With disasters uprooting 24 million people a year, pressure grows on governments to reduce the risk, and do more to protect the displaced. Extreme weather accounted for more than 87 percent of all disasters.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Ethiopia is global leader for internally displaced persons

Africanews.com

Poland rejects abortion ban after protests

Poland’s parliament rejected an abortion ban after women staged massive nationwide protests in the devoutly Catholic nation, where the law is already among the most restrictive in Europe.

Yahoo! News

Taiwan legalizes gay marriage, makes history

Lawmakers in Taiwan have approved a bill legalizing same-sex marriage, a landmark decision that makes the self-ruled island first in Asia to pass gay marriage legislation.

CNN

LGBT school lessons protests spread nationwide in UK

BBC

School staff beating children in Lebanon

Lebanon’s ban on school staff hitting, verbally abusing, or otherwise inflicting pain on school children in the name of discipline is often disregarded, according to a new report.

Lebanon News

HUMAN RIGHTS

Cambodia urged not to criminalize surrogates

Cambodia’s new laws on commercial surrogacy must not criminalize surrogate mothers, women’s rights campaigners said, after 11 women jailed for agreeing to carry a client’s baby were released from prison.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Surrogacy: Why the world needs rules for ‘selling’ babies

BBC

Sudan army rulers suspend talks with civilians

Sudan’s pro-democracy protesters said the ruling military council’s suspension of talks was a “regrettable” setback to efforts to forge a new democratic era following the overthrow of long-time leader Omar al-Bashir.

Al Jazeera

How Sudan targeted the women driving protests

CNN

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Poland plans double jail terms for pedophiles

Poland has announced plans to double jail terms for pedophiles after a documentary on priest sex abuse sparked outrage in the country. Convicted pedophiles could now face a maximum sentence of 30 years or life terms.

BBC

Panama sees surge in risky migrant crossings

Panamanian authorities are struggling to contend with a spike in migrants passing through what is known as the Darien Gap, a roadless, lawless region of tropical isthmus between South and North America.

NBCNews.com

Photos capture near-drowning of migrants on US-Mexico border

ABC News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Scientists develop tech to capture tumor cells

Researchers have developed a new microfluidic device that separates elusive circulating tumor cells from a sample of whole blood. The device may allow physicians to gauge a patient’s response to treatments earlier than is possible.

Phys.org

San Francisco bans facial recognition tech

Legislators in San Francisco have voted to ban the use of facial recognition, the first U.S. city to do so. The technology will not be allowed to be used by local agencies, such as the city’s transport authority, or law enforcement.

BBC

GLOBAL HEALTH

Camel milk froths hopes in drought-hit Kenya

Camels are highly adapted to climate change, while their milk has been dubbed “white gold” by food experts who say it could help conquer malnutrition in drought-hit Kenya.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Suicide rates in girls are rising, study finds

Suicide rates for young girls are rising at a pace faster than that of boys, changing the established patterns that boys are more likely to die by suicide and that girls are more likely to consider it and attempt it.

CNN

Youth suicide crisis: How can families, government and the medical community help?

Iohud

Undercover docs fight Ebola in violent Congo

Some doctors fighting the second-deadliest Ebola outbreak in history are afraid to wear scrubs. They mask their identities to avoid harassment and violence in Congo, where the epidemic is spreading at the fastest rate.

LMTOnline

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GOOD NEWS

GPS jewelry helps needy refugee moms, kids

Two teens, Kunjal Bharatkumar and Supraja Sayee Srinivasan have designed a website and locator system to help mothers track when kids need vaccinations and lets health workers locate people in need.

Science News

Homeless teen track star wins scholarship

A high school athlete from Arkansas is proving that strength comes in more than one form. Not only has Anya Sifuentes pushed herself as a track star, she also pushed herself to overcome a major life obstacle: homelessness.

MSN

Congrats and cash offers coming in for former homeless high school student accepted to 12 colleges

MSN

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

S. Korea to give $8M humanitarian aid to North

The South Korean government has decided to send $8 million in humanitarian aid to North Korea, days after Pyongyang claimed the country is experiencing extreme drought.

UPI

N. Korea suffering worst drought in decades

ABC News

$300M to fix inequality in Connecticut schools?

Connecticut grapples with disparity in public education. Now, hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio has pledged $100 million to help close the gap. That is, as long as the state and others match the funds.

WSHU

ENVIRONMENT

Climate-conscious entrust ballots to grandkids

As 373 million citizens of 28 E.U. countries prepare to head to the ballot box next week, a campaign encouraging people to give their grandchildren a say in the polls, as they’ll live with the consequences, is picking up pace.

NBCNews.com

UN: Use carbon tax to fight climate change

The Independent

Beach cleanups miss most plastic, study says

New research on a remote Australian island chain suggests that beach cleanups can inadvertently mask the full scale of plastic pollution, much of which lies below the sand.

National Geographic

Tide of flip-flops engulfs Australian islands

BBC

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Unemployment in France falls to 10-year low

France’s unemployment rate fell slightly in the first quarter to hit its lowest level in a decade, official data showed. French President Emmanuel Macron, a pro-business centrist, has made cutting unemployment his main domestic priority.

Reuters

Heiress slams corporate payouts for CEOs

Philanthropist and filmmaker Abigail Disney, granddaughter of Walt Disney Company co-founder, blasted corporate executives for their “addiction” to money, “extreme unfairness” of paying their workers less than a living wage.

Vox

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Children from the Maasai tribe crowd around their elders as they distribute sweets in this photograph from November 2010 in Kenya. (Photo by Davida3) Photo used under CC BY

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