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A young woman is quarantined in Paynesville, Montserrado, Liberia in January 2015. Medical workers’ efforts to contain the spread of Ebola have been hampered by widespread community distrust of health workers. A recent study by the Lancet Infectious Diseases journal showed that more than 30 percent of respondents believed that the virus was fabricated for the financial gain of local elites or to cause further destabilization. (Photo by UNMEER/Martine Perret) Photo used under CC BY

A year later, deadly Ebola in DRC rages on

One year ago today, the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared an outbreak of Ebola. Since then, more than 1,800 people have died, the virus has been carried to the large city of Goma on the border of Rwanda and to nearby Uganda, and violence has killed health workers.

Axios

Rwanda briefly shuts DRC border over Ebola fears

YouTube

Ebola outbreak highlights global rise in epidemics

The Hill

Nicaraguan rights chief accused of bilking US

A year after a U.S.-backed coup attempt rocked Nicaragua, a major scandal is unfolding over the alleged theft of half a million dollars in US taxpayer money by an organization at the center of the destabilization effort.

The Grayzone

Global supply chain relies on 16M slaves

Some 16 million victims of slavery work within poorly monitored supply chains, according to Walk Free, an anti-slavery NGO. That doesn’t include child labor or exploitative work conditions that permit movement.

Quartz

This fearless woman is fighting to keep slavery out of your seafood

NPR

Why can’t Afghanistan extract mineral wealth?

Poor security, weak legislation and corruption plague mining in Afghanistan, investors and experts say, which prevents the sector from developing. Deficient infrastructure has further discouraged potential investors.

Al Jazeera

Taliban vows future Afghanistan won’t be terrorists’ hotbed

Associated Press

Czech government remains stuck in a crisis

The Czech government has remained in a crisis for the last two months, even after a junior coalition partner backed down on an ultimatum threatening a collapse.

Al Jazeera

‘Shameless’ leaders spawn Amnesty strategy

In an age of “shameless” leaders like Donald Trump, Rodrigo Duterte and Jair Bolsonaro, Amnesty International will shift focus of messaging from raising awareness of human-rights abuses to championing positive action.

PR Week

China jails award-winning cyber-dissident Huang Qi

BBC

HUMAN RIGHTS

Kids of Indian sex workers get new safe space

An estimated 11,000 sex workers live in Sonagachi, a notorious red-light district in Kolkata, India. An organization called New Light, which educates and cares for children of these sex workers is now a ray of hope.

NPR

Mired in poverty, Afghans bring their children to work

ABC News

Colombia creates elite unit to combat trafficking

Colombia is training dozens of inspectors to hunt down cases of labor trafficking and exploitation, a response to the needs of migrants from Venezuela who are at high risk of being victimized, officials have said.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Saudi Arabia lifts travel restrictions for women

Saudi Arabia has allowed adult women to travel without permission and granted them more control over family matters, further eroding a heavily criticized male guardianship system at a time of scrutiny over its rights record.

Reuters

Dubai ruler’s wife asks UK court for forced marriage protection order

Guardian

Cop-run Brazilian militias ‘make their own laws’

Paramilitary gangs known locally as “militias” have emerged as the dominant criminal force in Belem, Brazil. The Amazon city now grapples with growing drug gangs and massacres.

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Study: Jogging, best weapon against ‘fat genes’

A new study suggests that certain types of exercise may help ward off obesity, even for those who are genetically predisposed to obesity. One exercise stood out as the one with the strongest anti-obesity effect: Jogging.

LiveScience

Giant dinosaur femur bone unearthed in France

Scientists are hailing the discovery of the thigh bone of a giant dinosaur in France, as a “major discovery.” The bone is thought to have belonged to a sauropod, which was widespread in the late Jurassic era, 140 million years ago.

Al Jazeera

Can springs break down marine microplastics?

Australian and Chinese engineers have developed carbon nanosprings that show promise in breaking down microplastics polluting oceans and rivers without harming nearby microorganisms.

Cosmos

GLOBAL HEALTH

India’s female feticide, paradox of development?

Over the past three months, all of the children born in a region in northern India were boys, a survey found, raising suspicions of rampant female feticide. Patriarchal mindset and technology are to blame, say experts.

Deutsche Welle

Mayor of town where only boys are born offers reward for first baby boy

Newsweek

Doctors urge probe into US child migrant deaths

Poor conditions at border detention facilities may have led to the deaths of three migrant children, a group of doctors alleges in a letter to U.S. Congress urging lawmakers to investigate the situation.

The Hill

Interview:

Job posting for doctor at an immigrant detention facility catches people’s attention

NPR

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GOOD NEWS

First UK jockey to race in hijab posts victory

A teenager, Khadijah Mellah made history as the first British jockey to compete in a major event wearing a hijab, winning a “fairytale” victory at the famed Goodwood racecourse.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Farmers save sick neighbor’s wheat harvest

When stage 4 cancer stood in the way of farmer Larry Yockey reaping his wheat harvest for the first time in 50 years in Ritzville, Washington, dozens of his fellow farmers stepped up to save his crop.

MSN

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

EU donates $111K to fight Philippines dengue

The European Union has donated $111,103 in humanitarian aid to the Philippines to help communities most affected by the ongoing surge in dengue cases.

Rappler

Elton John raises $6M for Kenya HIV testing

Elton John on Wednesday hosted a celebrity-packed gala that raised more than $6 million to fight HIV/AIDS in Kenya, thanks partly to auctions of a luxury car and an autographed piano used in the singer’s “Rocketman” movie.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

ENVIRONMENT

Greenland loses 11B tonnes of ice in a day

Amid record temperatures, scientists say Greenland’s ice sheet experienced its biggest melt of the summer, losing 11 billion tons of surface ice to the ocean, equivalent to 4.4 million Olympic swimming pools.

CNN

Climate change: July ‘marginally’ warmest month on record

BBC

Malaysia’s orangutan figures drop nearly 30%

The number of endangered orangutans living in forest patches found in oil palm estates in Malaysia’s Sabah fell as much as 30 percent between 2002 and 2017, the WWF has said. Their overall numbers are stable for now.

Telegraph.co.uk

Malaysia working to tighten laws on forest protection, says minister

Reuters

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Ghana ‘exporting rosewood illegally to China’

About six million rosewood trees have been cut down in Ghana for illegal export to China since 2012, an environmental group says. The rare species, which takes 100 years to grow, is used for imperial-style furniture in China.

BBC

US chicken industry cheating its farmers?

Poultry firms in the US have access to detailed information about farmers’ pay that gives them extraordinary power over suppliers when negotiating the terms of their contracts, leaked documents have shown.

Guardian

Lisbon choking on cruise ship tourism boom

A new port for cruise ships in Lisbon is bringing record numbers of tourists to Portugal’s capital. The downside of the boom is massive pollution and health hazards, which the government still choses to ignore.

Deutsche Welle

Photo of the Day

A Mutwa Muslim girl in Dhordo village, North of Bhuj, India in February 2007. According to a study published in the Lancet Global Health journal, apart from the rising number of female foeticide cases in India, more than 200,000 girls under the age of five die each year in the country owing to neglect due to gender discrimination. (Photo by Meena Kadri) Photo used under CC BY

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