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Business supply chains heavily reliant on slaves

According to the latest report by the Walk Free Initiative, there were 40.3 million people living in conditions of slavery in 2018, most of them women. One area is especially problematic: Business supply chains.

Quartz

To end slavery, free 10,000 people a day for a decade, report says

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Spike in femicides raises alert in Bolivia

The alarming number of femicides has prompted Bolivia’s Women’s Affairs Commission to convene an emergency meeting to demand officials allocate more resources for the fight against gender-based violence.

Buenos Aires Times

Shortfall in foreign aid for world’s biggest crises

The head of one of the world’s leading aid agencies has issued a stark warning over the “alarming lack of funding” for global humanitarian crises.

Guardian

Civilians paying human cost of Yemen’s war

A Yemeni human rights group says civilians are paying the human cost of the country’s five-year war, while steps to bring perpetrators to account are lacking.

Al Jazeera

Confusion, fear over new US asylum policy

Asylum-seekers gathered in Nuevo Laredo, across the border from Texas, grappled to understand what a new U.S. policy that all but eliminates refuge claims by C. Americans.

NBCNews.com

ACLU sues to block new Trump admin asylum restrictions

CNN

US sanctions senior Myanmar generals

The State Department said it has issued sanctions to four top military leaders in Myanmar over what it called “gross human rights violations” during the “ethnic cleansing” of the Rohingya Muslim minority.

NPR

HUMAN RIGHTS

Huge public swing against migration in Mexico

Mexicans now strongly oppose the Central American migration through their nation, a poll reveals. The massive shift in attitudes comes after President Donald Trump threatened to impose tariffs if the migration was not stopped.

Breitbart

37 countries defend China over Xinjiang policy

37 countries, including Saudi Arabia, Syria, and North Korea have signed a letter backing China’s treatment of Uighurs in the Xinjiang region, days after 22 UN nations demanded China stop detaining the Muslim minority.

Business Insider

Review:

Muslim nations are defending China as it cracks down on Muslims, shattering any myths of Islamic solidarity

CNN

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Sudan military, civilians sign deal to end turmoil

Sudan’s ruling military council and opposition leaders have signed a power-sharing accord after all-night talks. The two sides have agreed to rotate control of the sovereign council for just over three years.

BBC

Sudan crisis: What you need to know

BBC

Scandal throws Puerto Rico governor into crisis

Thousands have taken to Puerto Rico’s streets demanding the resignation of Governor Ricardo Rossello over leaked texts revealing obscene, sexist and homophobic remarks about women, political opponents, journalists and others.

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Musk plans to connect brains to computers

Elon Musk, the futurist billionaire behind SpaceX and Tesla, outlined his plans to connect humans’ brains directly to computers by next year, describing a campaign to create “symbiosis with artificial intelligence.”

NBCNews.com

Americans support NASA, not a return to moon

According to a poll, 52 percent of Americans think space exploration should focus on monitoring Earth’s environmental changes, while only 8 percent of them say a manned moon mission should be NASA’s top priority.

Yahoo! News

NASA wants to grow peppers in space

New York Post

Buzz Aldrin speaks at the Apollo 11 50th Anniversary Event

YouTube

GLOBAL HEALTH

Opioid crisis sending children to foster care

As the opioid crisis sweeps the nation, it is taking a devastating toll on children: The number of kids entering foster care because of parental drug use has more than doubled since 2000, according to new research.

Mother Jones

Opioid makers flooded US as crisis surged

Guardian

German law to require measles vaccinations

Children in Germany will have to prove they’ve had a measles vaccination before they can attend kindergarten or go to school, under a new draft law. Parents who object to immunizing their kids face hefty fines.

Deutsche Welle

WHO declares Sri Lanka to be free of measles

CNN

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GOOD NEWS

Local church pays off $7.2M in medical debt

Senior pastor of Stetson Baptist Church in DeLand, Florida revealed that over the course of a single week, the church’s 350 members had managed to raise money to pay off $7.2 million medical debt of 6,500 families.

Daily Wire

Beachgoers step in to save stranded whales

Dozens of beachgoers stepped in to help several pilot whales that beached on a coastal Georgia island, according to local authorities and videos shared on social media.

CNN

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Novelist donates $1M to Mark Twain’s home

Mark Twain’s historic home in Hartford has received a $1 million gift from bestselling novelist David Baldacci and his wife to support new initiatives including writing programs and more appearances by authors.

Press Herald

NGO that helped 14K families marks 50 years

In 1969, a lone employee paid by Catholic Charities led dozens of volunteers determining primarily food-related needs. The result was Respond Now, and 50 years later, they’ve served over 14,000 families.

MSN

ENVIRONMENT

Ancient plants surface as warming melts ice

Buried under ice for centuries, plants in the warming Arctic are awakening. The resilience of these species suggests newly known plants may emerge as other species die off, sped up by the climate crisis.

Mother Jones

Special section:

There are diseases hidden in ice, and they are waking up

BBC

July on course to be the hottest month ever

Record temperatures across much of the world over the past two weeks could make July the hottest month ever measured on Earth, according to climate scientists.

Guardian

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

“Gold rush” for mammoth ivory amid thaw

Activists and officials in northern Russia have warned of a “gold rush” for mammoth ivory as prospectors dig up tusks and other woolly mammoth remains that can net a small fortune on the rapacious Chinese market.

Guardian

Amazon warehouse workers protest unfair pay

Amazon employees and workers in several countries including the UK, Poland, Spain, Germany, and the U.S. went on strike or held rallies to protest unfair pay and working conditions ahead of Amazon’s Prime Day.

Refinery29

Photo of the Day

A girl carries firewood in Mingkaman, South Sudan in February 2014. According to Oxfam, with an estimated 75,000 people displaced from Bor now living in Mingkaman, firewood is becoming scarcer, and families have to walk longer distances to find fuel for their stoves. (Photo by Oxfam/Aimee Brown) Photo used under CC BY

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