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Malawian children await distribution of food aid in July 2016. Obesity and malnutrition — problems that once existed at opposite ends of the wealth spectrum — have today converged in poor and middle-income countries. (Photo by Feed My Starving Children) Photo used under CC BY

UNICEF: 1 in 3 young kids underfed or overweight

A third of the world’s nearly 700 million under-5 kids are undernourished or overweight and face lifelong health problems as a result, according to a UN assessment of childhood nutrition.

Al Jazeera

Hong Kong leader rules out suffrage debate

Embattled Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor told the European Union representative that it was not feasible to relaunch a debate on universal suffrage now because society was too polarized.

South China Morning Post

Haiti’s embattled president faces 5th week of protests

Haiti’s embattled president faced a fifth week of protests on Monday as road blocks went up across the country after opposition leaders said they will not back down on their call for Jovenel Moïse to resign.

Jamaica Observer

What’s behind Haiti’s deadly protests, and possible outcomes

Reuters

37 hurt as protesters, Spanish police clash

Tempers flared in Spain’s Catalonia region after the country’s Supreme Court found 12 separatist leaders guilty of illegally promoting Catalan independence; 37 protesters have been injured during clashes with police.

CBS News

Catalan separatist leaders handed jail terms for independence bid

YouTube

Philippines cracks down on rights activists

In an escalating campaign of harassment, seven Filipino rights activists were arrested this month while conducting a fact-finding mission into alleged military abuses on the island province of Palawan.

Asia Times Online

HUMAN RIGHTS

Uganda renounces death penalty for gay sex

Uganda will not impose the death penalty for gay sex, a presidential spokesman said, after major aid donors said they were monitoring a plan by the African nation to reintroduce a bill colloquially known as “Kill the Gays.”

Thomson Reuters Foundation

15 (surprising) countries where it’s illegal to be gay

New York Post

Chile’s indigenous protest discrimination

Thousands of protesters brought Chile’s capital, Santiago, to a standstill on Columbus Day, denouncing discrimination and persecution of indigenous people.

Al Jazeera

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Nigeria vows crackdown on abusive schools

Nigeria’s president Muhammadu Buhari ordered a crackdown on abuse at Islamic schools, after a second police raid in less than a month revealed men and boys subjected to beatings, abuse and squalid conditions.

Reuters

Men and boys chained up at Nigeria Islamic ‘school’

YouTube

Ecuador signs fuel subsidies to end protests

Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno and leaders of the country’s indigenous peoples have reached a deal to cancel a disputed austerity package. The move follows nearly two weeks of violent, widespread protests.

NPR

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Algal blooms getting worse on global scale

Potentially toxic algae blooms in the world’s freshwater lakes have become more intense over the last 30 years, a new study says. While Rising temperatures are likely making it harder for lakes to recover from them.

Gizmodo

Researchers learning Zika’s long-term effects

Researchers find that Zika’s origins and effects are complicated, that outbreaks are still happening and worrisome in Asia, and that we are ill-prepared for the next time Zika hits.

NPR

GLOBAL HEALTH

Amazon deforestation linked to rise of malaria

As deforestation in the Amazon increases, so do the rates of the mosquito-borne disease, shows a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Inverse

Expectant Chinese break law to determine sex

Desperate to find out whether they are having a boy or a girl, Chinese parents have intermediaries send blood samples across the border into Hong Kong to have them tested.

CNN

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GOOD NEWS

Refugee girls learn football on secret pitch

A secret pitch where girls can play football away from disapproving religious leaders and the rise of a top female football referee are among the unlikely success stories emerging from a refugee camp in north Lebanon.

Guardian

In a first, Sudan gets women’s football league

Deutsche Welle

Pictures: Iran women attend FIFA football game for first time in decades

Gulf News

School lunch shaming against law in California

California signed into law a new piece of legislation that guarantees all students will receive lunch even if their parents or guardians have not paid their meal fees.

CNN

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Chicago food truck owners feed the homeless

Two friends from Chicago’s South Side are doing what they can every day to feed the city’s homeless through Phlavz, their food truck business.

ABC News

Florida man pays off school’s lunch debt

Andrew Levy learned about a list of schools’ outstanding lunch debt from a Facebook post and wanted to do something about it. He knew that kids in debt would go without eating, so he paid the balance for all 400 kids in full.

CNN

ENVIRONMENT

Ships illegally dumping plastic trash at sea

Ships are responsible for most of the bottles floating in the central South Atlantic Ocean, in contravention of International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships regulations, a new study concludes.

CBC News

Crabs in Thames found with stomachs ‘completely full of plastic’

The Independent

Policies threaten reindeer herders in Mongolia

For thousands of years Mongolia’s Dukha ethnic minority have depended on their reindeer herds to survive the bitter winters, but now their way of life is threatened by new government restrictions, they say.

Salon

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

New drug-pricing data shows stunning hikes

Pharmaceutical companies continue to raise prices on hundreds of drugs at rates well over that of inflation, according to a newly released report on drug-pricing data.

Ars Technica

Sand mining threatens life on the Mekong river

An essential component of glass, asphalt and concrete, Asia’s growing megacities are made of sand. In Cambodia, sand is being dredged from the Mekong River at an alarming rate, with disastrous results for local residents.

Deutsche Welle

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Refugee kids living in an abandoned factory near Saida, Lebanon. According to Lebanese government estimates, Lebanon currently hosts 1.5 million Syrian refugees. At the end of 2018, over 18,200 refugees and asylum-seekers from countries other than Syria were registered with UNHCR. (Photo by Anthony Gale) Photo used under CC BY

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