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A Syrian refugee child. Global freedom has suffered an overall decline for the 13th straight year, according to an annual ranking of 209 nations and territories. Syria received the lowest score — an imperfect zero — followed by South Sudan, Eritrea and Turkmenistan at two, North Korea at three, and Saudi Arabia with seven. (Photo by Bengin Ahmad) Photo used under CC BY

Civil, political rights eroding globally, report warns

Civil and political rights are being eroded all over the world, warns a new report by a democracy watchdog in an annual ranking of 209 nations and territories, as populist forces undermine liberal democracies in a consistent and ominous pattern.

CBC

US global gag rule policy ‘killing women’

The Trump administration’s reinstatement and expansion of the global gag rule has “deprived women of essential healthcare” and is “ultimately killing” women worldwide, the International Women’s Health Coalition said in a report.

Al Jazeera

After decades in the shadows, Russia’s feminists grab their spotlight

PRI

Early abortion bans: which states have passed them?

NPR

US cuts programs for detained migrant kids

Shelters housing migrant youths in the U.S. will begin scaling back or discontinuing awards for unaccompanied minor activities that are not directly necessary for the protection of life and safety, including education services, legal services, and recreation.

New York Magazine

LGBTQ migrants 97 times more likely to be sexually assaulted in ICE detention

NBCNews.com

Migrant apprehensions hit 13-year high

Newsweek

IDP returnees facing water shortage in Burma

After eight years of living in camps for those displaced by war, formerly displaced people who returned to their home village of Nam San Yang are now experiencing a new hardship — a lack of drinking water.

Burma News International

Hong Kong court issues major LGBTQ ruling

Hong Kong’s Court of Appeal says government cannot deny spousal employment benefits to same-sex couples, in a ruling hailed as a major step forward for same-sex equality in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.

TIME

EU limits visas for migration non-cooperation

Citizens from third countries that do not take back rejected asylum seekers may find it more difficult to obtain visas for the EU. Conversely, full cooperation could reap extra rewards.

Deutsche Welle

HUMAN RIGHTS

Half of Africa’s child deaths stem from hunger

One in three African children are stunted and hunger accounts for almost half of all child deaths across the continent, an Addis Ababa-based thinktank has warned.

Guardian

Can sweet potatoes be a solution to Africa’s food problem?

CNBC

Press freedom in ‘downward spiral’ worldwide

Press freedom is declining around the world, with democratic governments joining authoritarian regimes in seeking to suppress independent journalism, Freedom House, a human rights watchdog has said.

Channel NewsAsia

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Japan minister: High heels at work ‘necessary’

Japan’s health, labor and welfare minister Takumi Nemoto has sparked controversy by saying that it is “socially accepted” that women be forced to wear high heels in the workplace.

CNN

Fury as Russian company tells women workers to stop wearing the trousers

Reuters

African Union suspends Sudan over crackdown

The African Union has suspended Sudan’s membership “until the effective establishment of a civilian-led transitional authority,” days after the military launched a brutal crackdown on protesters that killed dozens of people.

Al Jazeera

France to ban destroying unsold clothes, tech

After banning supermarkets from destroying unsold food and obliging them to donate it, France is now to pass a legislation banning producers from destroying unsold non-food items in a “world first.”

Telegraph.co.uk

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Cotton waste fuel aids Kenya’s drought-hit crop

Kenyan farmers are irrigating their drought-hit crops more cheaply, cleanly and efficiently using a pump fueled by cotton waste. Unlike other biofuels, this is more sustainable because no extra land is needed to produce it.

Reuters

NASA is launching a GPS system for space

NASA is about to send its “Deep Space Atomic Clock” into the emptiness of space — where it’ll help spacecraft figure out where they are, like a cosmic GPS system.

Futurism

GLOBAL HEALTH

One million new STIs every day, says WHO

One million new sexually transmitted infections occur every single day due to a lack of progress in stopping their spread, the World Health Organization has said.

BBC

ISIS claims deadly attack in DRC Ebola zone

ISIS claimed responsibility for a deadly overnight attack in an area of eastern Congo hit by an Ebola epidemic, although its account of the violence differed from local reports.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

WHO: Congo Ebola outbreak tops 2K cases

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GOOD NEWS

Girl Scouts open smartphone clinic for seniors

Girl Scout Troop 60013, the Arlington, Virginia-based scouts hosted “TechBridge,” their first walk-in clinic to help local senior citizens learn how to use their cellphones.

MSN

Mom donates breastmilk after miscarriage

Amy Anderson from Maine had a miscarriage. The grieving mother donated 92 gallons over the next eight months, helping save the lives of other children despite her own loss.

The Epoch Times

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Open Society gives $5M for good governance

The Open Society Foundations has announced a $5 million challenge grant to the Open Government Partnership in support of accountable, responsive and inclusive governance initiatives.

Philanthropy News Digest

Amnesty will make almost 100 staff redundant

Amnesty International is to cut almost 100 jobs as part of urgent restructuring to tackle a “serious budget deficit,” the human rights organization has confirmed.

Third Sector

ENVIRONMENT

Washington tribe feeds starving, wild whales

Having shared a coast and culture with Orca whales, Lummi Nation, a tribe is now pushing an unorthodox policy. They are feeding salmon to the starving, wild whales in Washington state’s San Juan Island.

Guardian

People eat at least 50K plastic particles yearly

The average person eats at least 50,000 particles of microplastic a year and breathes in a similar quantity, according to the first study to estimate human ingestion of plastic pollution. Health effects are still unknown.

Guardian

Zero-waste: The women in Asia who gave up plastic

BBC

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Poor audited more frequently than millionaires

Poor taxpayers are far more likely to be audited by the IRS than high-income taxpayers – and the trend has only increased in the last decade, according to data released by the agency last week.

FOX News

Teachers’ pay can’t cover median rent in USA

New teachers can’t afford the median rent almost anywhere in the U.S., an analysis shows — a point often made during recent teacher strikes across the country. But that’s not the full story.

USA TODAY

Photo of the Day

Two children from the Tidi village, Malawi, Africa in January 2013. One in four people suffer from hunger in Sub Saharan Africa according to SOS Children’s Villages – which means that the share of the world’s hungry is highest in these regions. (Photo by US Mission to the United Nations Agencies in Rome) Photo used under CC BY

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