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Rohingya refugee children in Unchiprang camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. With the approach of monsoon season, the Rohingya are working to fortify their flood- and landslide-prone camps, where thousands have taken refuge from persecution. (Photo by EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Organization) Photo used under CC BY

Rohingya refugees prepare camps for monsoon season

As monsoon season begins in Bangladesh, Rohingya refugees work to fortify their flood-prone camps along the southern coast, where some 910,000 Rohingya have taken refuge.

Deutsche Welle

In world’s largest refugee camp, Rohingya children face a desperate choice

PBS NewsHour

HRW: Egyptian abuses amount to war crimes

According to Human Rights Watch, Egyptian security forces have committed widespread abuses against civilians in the restive northern Sinai Peninsula, some amounting to war crimes.

Al Jazeera

Canada declares killing of indigenous ‘genocide’

An inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada called the deaths a “Canadian genocide,” concluding that about 1,200 aboriginal women had been murdered or disappeared since 1980.

BBC

‘Our hurt, our loss, our tears’: Report an emotional milestone for indigenous women

CBC News

Poverty, corruption drive elephant poaching

Researchers have identified two variables that greatly influence local elephant poaching rates. One is poverty, as measured by infant mortality rate, and the other is corruption.

National Geographic

US scientists to investigate grey whale deaths

The Independent

Poaching threatens South America’s only bear species

National Geographic

Anti-Israel protest stokes anti-Semitism fear

Anti-Israel protesters have gathered for a controversial rally in the German capital, where they will face off with counter-demonstrators concerned about growing anti-Semitism in Germany.

Deutsche Welle

Holocaust survivor portraits attacked in Vienna

Deutsche Welle

HUMAN RIGHTS

Brazilians rally against education budget cuts

Thousands of Brazilians have taken to the streets to protest a decision by the government of President Jair Bolsonaro to slash education funds. Officials have said this could affect scholarships, utility services, maintenance.

FOX News

Shrinking Brazil economy predicts recession

Al Jazeera

In Italy, migrant tobacco pickers allege abuse

In Italy, African migrants, some of them children, pick tobacco leaves that supply Philip Morris, British American Tobacco and Imperial Brands. They say they are forced to work in inhumane conditions for very low pay.

Guardian

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

New Zealand unveils new ‘well-being’ budget

New Zealand’s liberal-led government announced a new budget worth billions of dollars to benefit mental health services and child poverty in its first “well-being” budget.

FOX News

Plunge in migration deepens New Zealand labor shortage, chokes businesses

Reuters

South Africa gets a gender-balanced cabinet

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced a new cabinet in which, for the first time in the country’s history, half of all ministers are women.

BBC

Austria appoints first woman chancellor after video scandal

BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Diamonds made from Earth’s recycled seabed?

By mimicking how the planet cooks up the sparkly gems, scientists discovered what may be a key ingredient for the formation of diamonds: ocean sediments.

National Geographic

Snow might be the next clean energy source

Two UCLA scientists have invented a device that uses silicone to capture the electrical charge from snow and create electricity. Their tool is uncomplicated, small, inexpensive, and needs no batteries.

Popular Science

GLOBAL HEALTH

Nepal moves to improve health care facilities

In Nepal, 3.5 million people still lack basic access to water, and 11.3 million don’t have use of a decent toilet. In a country where dirty water and poor sanitation jeopardizes millions, moves are afoot to improve health facilities.

Guardian

Pakistan will now tax tobacco, sugary drinks

On May 31, World No Tobacco Day, Pakistan announced a health tax on cigarettes to cut rising tobacco consumption that kills nearly 160,000 Pakistanis every year.

Gulf News

Studies link processed foods to early death

BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Marshall Auerback):

What does it mean to live in a multipolar world?

Asia Times Online

Column (Catherine Rottenberg):

Abortion and the decimation of American democracy

Al Jazeera

Column (José Graziano da Silva and Gilbert F. Houngbo):

It’s time to celebrate family farming

Thomson Reuters Foundation

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GOOD NEWS

Filipino students must plant trees to graduate

The Philippines, a tropical island nation in the Pacific, will now require by law all graduating students from elementary school to college plant 10 trees each before they can graduate.

Forbes

Woman raises cash for high schoolers in debt

ABC News

World’s smallest surviving baby goes home

Believed to be the world’s smallest surviving baby, Saybie weighed 8.6 ounces when she was born at Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women and Newborns in December. Now more than 5 pounds, she is going home.

Inside Edition

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Humanitarian groups must localize approach

As humanitarian organizations must support more populations impacted by natural and man-made crises, they must embrace localization as a way to make the sector more responsive and innovative, experts say.

Devex

Alabama may return gift over donor dispute

The University of Alabama may return Hugh Culverhouse, Jr.’s $21.5 million gift, the largest in the school’s history, and strip his name from the law school, over a dispute regarding the administration of the funds.

Philanthropy News Digest

University supercharges fundraising for girls

Martha Taylor and Lori Diprete Brown founded a program that enhances fundraising for women at University of Wisconsin-Madison. It also covers everything from ending trafficking to aiding child rearing in Malawi.

Inside Philanthropy

ENVIRONMENT

Pesticides can increase mosquito numbers

A study reveals that mosquitoes have evolved resistance to common chemicals meant to kill them and other pests. The mosquitoes’ predators, meanwhile, have failed to evolve and died off, allowing mosquitoes to thrive.

National Geographic

As climate hurts wines, pesticide use grows

Deutsche Welle

Study: Climate crisis led to mass puffin deaths

Researchers believe the 3,150 to 8,500 tufted puffins who starved to death in the Bering Sea died due to the loss of energy-rich prey species, which was triggered by increased sea and atmospheric temperatures.

Guardian

Thousands of puffins die in ‘mass mortality event’

The Independent

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Pan-African free trade deal comes into force

While US-China trade tensions continue to escalate, Africa is putting together a free trade agreement. This will create a single market for goods and services by removing existing trade barriers across Africa.

CNN

Trump threatens new tariffs on Mexican imports

CNN

Having college degree widens gender pay gap

The United States Census Bureau released a new study that shows having a college degree widens the gender earnings gap. Among the educated, women earn 74 cents for every dollar men make.

ABC News

Photo of the Day

Activists called Climate Angels demonstrate outside the Australian Government offices in Melbourne in March 2019. March 22 was Extinction Rebellion Declaration Day in Melbourne. People gathered in Treasury Gardens before marching on the Victorian State Government offices, then the Commonwealth Government offices in Treasury Place. (Photo by Takver) Photo used under CC BY

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