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Child marriage in India. (Photo by Naga rick) Photo used under CC BY

Report of child marriage decline may be misleading

UNICEF released a report earlier in March highlighting the decline of child marriages in India. Attention has been drawn recently on the flaws of the reports and how numbers may have been underreported.

NPR

The “ugly” reality of child marriage in the US

CBS News

Risk of poverty in the EU on the rise

Almost 10 percent of employed EU citizens over the age of 18 are at risk of poverty, according to data published by Eurostat, the European Commission’s statistics agency.

Delano

Employed persons at risk of poverty low in Malta when compared to other EU countries

Malta Independent

Life without toilets: tackling a global taboo

Andrea Bruce’s prize-winning images from India, Haiti and Vietnam document the deeply sensitive issue of open defecation, which affects 1.1 billion of the world’s poorest people.

Guardian

School risks closure due to lack of toilets for pupils

Standard Digital

Kenyan parents selling children to sex tourists

Sex work is seen as an acceptable means of earning a living in coastal Kenya. To parents and relatives, a child with a white tourist as a “girlfriend” or “boyfriend” is the fastest way to get the family out of poverty.

allAfrica.com

World Water Council warns of water crises

World Water Council’s Benedito Braga says governments should increase resilience to cope with droughts and flooding due to climate change or else face water crises in the future.

Deutsche Welle

Diphtheria outbreak in war-torn Yemen

The World Health Organization says a diphtheria outbreak in war-torn Yemen has spread rapidly nationwide and infected more than 1,300 people.

The Independent

HUMAN RIGHTS

NZ gay rights activists demand compensation

Gay rights advocates are gearing up to fight the New Zealand government for compensation for men convicted of homosexual crimes. Last year justice minister Amy Adams apologized to hundreds of gay men who were convicted of a crime for engaging in consensual sex prior to the homosexual law reform of 1986.

Guardian

Brazilians protest after murder of rights activist

Three days of mourning have begun in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, after the murder of a black human rights campaigner who spoke out against the lethal methods routinely used by security forces within the city’s poorest neighborhoods.

NPR

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

US accuses Russia of cyberattacks on grid

The U.S. government has accused Russia of remotely targeting the US power grid, as part of its newly unveiled sanctions on the country. Details reveal a multi-stage effort by Russia to target specific government entities and critical infrastructure.

CNN

Trump’s military parade could feed every homeless vet

Newsweek

Turkey’s Afrin offensive has displaced 150,000

More than 150,000 people have been displaced from Syria’s Afrin town, a senior Kurdish official and a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a U.K.-based war monitor, said Turkish warplanes and artillery struck the town overnight

CBC News

European powers propose new Iran sanctions

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Hawking envisioned universe fading away

Stephen Hawking, the world-famous physicist who died last week at 76,was a co-author to a mathematical paper in which he sought to prove the so-called “multiverse” theory, according to a report by UK newspaper The Sunday Times.

CNBC

Anti-cancer drug relieves autism’s effects

New research reveals the first evidence that it may be possible to use a single compound to alleviate the behavioral symptoms of autism spectrum disorder by targeting sets of genes involved in the disease.

ScienceDaily

GLOBAL HEALTH

Scientists pinpoint 27 states of emotion

A new study challenges a long-held assumption in psychology that most human emotions fall within the universal categories of happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, fear and disgust.

ScienceDaily

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Microaggressions don‘t just ’hurt your feelings’

USA TODAY

Abortion in US is safe, landmark report finds

Abortions in the United States are safe and have few complications, according to a landmark new study by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

NPR

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GOOD NEWS

Feeling guilty? That could be a good thing

Employees who like their jobs would be more likely to show up for work each day, right? Strangely, though, research on the subject of absenteeism hasn’t borne out that assumption.

Quartz

Iowa basketball player misses free throw to honor late Hawkeye’s legacy

NBCNews.com

Hong Kong architect proposes tube homes

Hong Kong’s notoriously expensive housing makes owning an affordable home a pipe dream for many residents. A local architect has proposed a novel idea to help alleviate that problem: Building micro-apartments inside giant concrete drainage pipes.

News24

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Commission criticizes Ukraine on NGO rules

The opinion covers the draft laws replacing previously imposed and criticized e-declarations for anti-corruption activists by a regime of burdensome tax reporting and enhanced public disclosure of detailed financial information.

Unian.info

Italian authorities impound NGO’s rescue boat

A migrant rescue ship has been seized in Italy for refusing to hand over rescued migrants to Libya. The NGO said that would have been illegal, and insisted that the rescue took place legally in international waters.

Deutsche Welle

Hungary‘s leader proposes ’Stop Soros’ laws against NGOs that help Migrants

NPR

ENVIRONMENT

Wildlife protection board full of hunters

Review of board members appointed by interior secretary Ryan Zinke indicates they are likely to agree with his position that the best way to protect critically threatened or endangered species is by encouraging wealthy Americans to shoot some of them.

The Independent

Fisheries: Higher catches, less bycatch

Healthier fish stocks. Higher catches. Profits from fishing. Is there a way to achieve these holy grails of commercial fisheries without harming endangered species that are caught incidentally? A new study has found that may indeed be possible about half the time.

ScienceDaily

ECONOMY

China’s quiet economist becomes a top adviser

Harvard-educated Liu He has been named one of China‘s four vice-premiers - in charge of economic policies and financial issues. It’s a huge and high-profile job. Known affectionately by some as “Uncle He,” Liu He is widely rumored to have been friends with President Xi Jinping since they were teenagers.

BBC

Businesses converting to employee ownership

What do a grocer in Sonoma, California; a bookstore in Cambridge; and a real estate company in Columbus, Ohio, have in common? All are converting to worker ownership.

Nonprofit Quarterly

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Zulu dancers in a traditional Lesedi village in South Africa. (Photo by Kwang Cho) Photo used under CC BY

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