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A garment factory in China. The UN and its member states have committed to eliminating slavery by 2030, along with human trafficking, forced labor, and child labor. (Photo by Matt) Photo used under CC BY

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

EU held responsible for Libyan refugee plight

Several humanitarian organizations have called for the European Union to evacuate thousands of refugees from the regions around Libyan detention centers where they face disease, malnourishment and physical danger.

Forbes

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

Malnutrition, disease rising in North Korea

Rates of malnutrition and disease are increasing in North Korea as it faces a harvest that is half of what was expected, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies have said.

Yahoo! News

Bullying making India’s LGBTQ kids dropout

A survey of LGBTQ youth in the state Tamil Nadu by UNESCO found more than half skipped classes to avoid bullying, while a third dropped out of school altogether.

Reuters

India’s monsoon floods kill dozens, displace thousands

Al Jazeera

Violence against Indonesian women on the rise

Activists have warned of an “epidemic” of sexual harassment and violence against women in Indonesia, in the wake of two recent cases of horrific domestic abuse.

Guardian

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

Crackdown on Rohingya was a war crime

UN special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar has said U.S. sanctions imposed on senior military leaders in Myanmar should have been tougher and applied to more generals.

Al Jazeera

Right-wing extremism growing in Germany?

According to a report by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, there are 12,700 “violence-orientated right-wing extremists” in Germany — which is more than half of the number of all right-wing extremists.

NBCNews.com

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

‘Artificial snow’ could save Antarctic ice sheet

Governments could stop the West Antarctic Ice Sheet from sliding into the ocean and submerging coastal cities by launching a last-ditch engineering project to blanket its surface with “artificial snow,” according to a study.

Reuters

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

GLOBAL HEALTH

Ebola in DRC declared global health emergency

The deadly Ebola outbreak in Congo is now an international health emergency, the World Health Organization announced after a case was confirmed in a city of 2 million people.

Associated Press

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

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GOOD NEWS

Woman spreads kindness through ‘cookies’

Cecilia Ulibarri from Nashua helps people create “fortune cookies” out of construction paper, insert “fortunes” in them and encourages giving them to strangers as part of her Fortune Forward kindness movement.

The Nashua Telegraph

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

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

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

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

Cambodia to send waste back to US, Canada

Cambodia has become the latest Asian country to reject shipments of waste sent to its shores by Western companies for processing. Officials announced that they were sending 1,600 tonnes of trash back to the U.S. and Canada.

CNN

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Federal minimum wage hiked to $15 an hour

The United States House passed a bill to hike the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour in a win for liberal activists who have long pushed to give low-wage workers a raise.

CNBC

Australia has world’s highest minimum wage

Financial Review

“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

Photo of the Day

An older lady is pictured on the steps of Angkor Wat, Siem Reap in Cambodia carrying a bag of plastic bottles in May 2009. Following China’s decision last year to ban imports of foreign plastic, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and now Cambodia are set to send plastic waste back to developed nations where it came from. (Photo by Emilio Labrador) Photo used under CC BY

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