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Not educating girls may cost world $30 trillion

Failing to let girls finish their education could cost the world as much as $30 trillion in lost earnings and productivity, yet more than 130 million girls are out of school globally.

Reuters

Apple and Malala Fund partnership takes step into girls education in Latin America

The Independent

Current trends and gaps on SDGs work

Ministers are gathering this week at the United Nations to discuss progress on the Sustainable Development Goals. The goals are intentionally inspirational; promises made by all countries to their citizens to improve the prospects for people, planet, and prosperity.

(Brookings)

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UN countries strike pact on global mass migration

The United Nations agreed on wide-ranging ways to cope with the millions of migrants moving from country to country, overcoming “mistrust” and “difficult” issues to draw up the first-ever migration pact. The United States pulled out of the talks.

Reuters

Algeria halts refugee expulsions to Sahara after outrage

Al Jazeera

Unplanned births seed Tanzania’s poverty

At least 74 percent of children in Tanzania still live under multidimensional poverty, the Child Poverty 2016 Report has revealed. This was caused by lack of family planning, leading to having many children beyond the capacity of parents to manage well.

allAfrica.com

Failures in Puerto Rico disaster response

The Federal Emergency Management Agency failed to properly prepare for last year’s hurricane season and was unable to provide adequate support to hurricane victims in Puerto Rico and other areas, an internal report released by the agency concluded.

NPR

Maria’s uncounted dead

CNN

HUMAN RIGHTS

Sri Lanka to hang drug dealers to quell drug war

Sri Lanka’s president says the South Asian nation will start hanging drug offenders, hoping to “replicate the success” of the Philippines’ bloody war on drugs.

TIME

Iraqis protest poor public services, lack of jobs

Iraq has placed its security forces on high alert after protests against high unemployment and a lack of basic services in the country’s southern provinces spread to the capital.

Al Jazeera

UN funds to aid displaced Ethiopians

The UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund released US$15 million to scale up assistance to people by escalating inter-communal violence in Ethiopia. Historical tensions between communities in southern Ethiopia have escalated leading to large-scale displacements, damage of properties and loss of life.

CNBC

Algeria halts refugee expulsions to Sahara

Algeria’s expulsions of migrants and refugees into the Sahara Desert have nearly come to a halt after widespread condemnation and the abrupt firing of two top security officials.

Al Jazeera

More than 100 die in bomb attacks on poll rallies

A suicide bomber has killed at least 128 people at a campaign rally in south-western Pakistan - the deadliest attack in the country since 2014.

BBC

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Nations seek to combat Venezuelan corruption

Colombia’s Finance Minister Mauricio Cardenas hosted a meeting with officials from Mexico, Panama, and the United States to share information on Venezuelan government officials suspected of corruption.

Reuters

Malta rebuffs Italy, says not responsible for migrant boat

Reuters

Sudan extends ceasefire with rebels

Sudan has extended until the end of this year a three-year-old unilateral ceasefire with rebels fighting in three parts of the country, the presidential palace said, as Khartoum pushes to end years of civil war and improve its economy.

Reuters

South Sudan extend interim mandate for 3 years

News24

Doc lays out violent history of DR-Congo

The film is about the conflicts in the Congo, a huge country roughly two-thirds the size of Western Europe. These conflicts have been described as “Africa’s World War,” occurring for more than 20 years. It has claimed up to 6 million lives, either as a direct result of the fighting or from disease and malnutrition.

The New Yorker

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Engineers making phone-charging clothing

Engineers are creating clothing that can charge your cell phone. What makes this possible are the unique properties of carbon nanotubes, which is a large surface area that is strong, conductive and heat-resistant.

ScienceDaily

T cell engineering advance eschews viruses

In an achievement that has significant implications for medicine, scientists have genetically reprogrammed the human immune cells known as T cells without using viruses to insert DNA. The techniques are expected to accelerate the development of new and safer treatments for cancer and other diseases.

ScienceDaily

Edible cultivated tissue: Is that stuff meat?

There may be a turf war on between two U.S. federal agencies over who will regulate the emerging industry of cultured meat, but you wouldn’t know it from the presentations by the Food and Drug Administration.

Science Magazine

GLOBAL HEALTH

Sanctions on North Korea fan TB epidemic

Despite detente on the Korean Peninsula since the summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un last month, ongoing sanctions championed are keeping lifesaving medicines and supplies from thousands of NK tuberculosis patients.

ABC News

Canadian insurers stall on covering medical pot

Canada’s health insurance industry is wary of covering medical marijuana due to the potentially high costs of covering it — in many cases higher than established pharmaceuticals — and thin clinical evidence for its efficacy.

Reuters

UN: Family planning is key to poverty reduction

The UN Population Fund has said that family planning is key to poverty reduction and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

Vanguard

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Experts advocate family planning for sustainable development

(Guardian)

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Academics ponder epidemic readiness

Somewhere, a virus could jump into humans and become the next epidemic. By the time the Ebola outbreak ended in 2016, it had killed over 10,000 people and infected nearly 30,000. Researchers had developed a vaccine in the lab and yet the epidemic still had dire implications. Are we ready for the next epidemic?

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

Refugees in Greece find sanctuary in football

As the world gears up for the World Cup final, a grassroots group of volunteers has created its own football movement for refugees in Greece.

Deutsche Welle

Genocide survivor is helping refugees heal

Esther Mujawayo-Keiner knows what trauma feels like. She lost most of her family in the 1994 genocide. Now she works in Germany as a trauma therapist for African refugees.

Deutsche Welle

Interview:

Rohingya refugees are working to prepare safer shelters before monsoon season

NPR

Lip-sync battles put funk into law enforcement

Remember “Cop Rock”? It’s happening for real. Police departments across the U.S. have crafted entertaining entries for a viral lip-sync challenge that has cops dancing and singing to catchy tunes while in full uniform.

CNET News

Song-and-dance cop videos become social media sensation

CBS News

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

What happens before a nonprofit is born?

As a general rule, we say a nonprofit is born the moment it has been officially registered by the IRS, but reducing nonprofit birth to the act of registration is to simplify and ignore critical aspects of the organizing process.

Nonprofit Quarterly

ENVIRONMENT

Global heat wave raises climate change fears

Record high temperatures have been set across much of the world this week as an unusually prolonged and broad heatwave intensifies concerns about climate change.

Guardian

Seals used to measure Antarctica melt rate

Smithsonian Magazine

Killing off rats could save coral reefs

But scientists studying reefs on tropical islands say rats directly threaten the survival of these ecosystems. Rats decimate seabird populations, in turn decimating the volume of bird droppings — a natural reef fertilizer.

BBC

Endangered black rhinos die in Kenya reserve

Eight endangered black rhinos have died while being transported to a new wildlife reserve.

BBC

ECONOMY

New tech opens markets for Kenyan farmers

Farmers lose tons of food due to different reasons that can be avoided. Over 500 Kenyan farmers have found solace in a ready market for horticultural produce, due to an air dryer.

The Exchange

Saudi Arabia to invest S. Africa’s energy sector

Saudi Arabia is to pump $10 billion worth of investment into South Africa, to be focused on its troubled energy sector, according to a South African government spokesperson.

CNBC

Photo of the Day

A Somalian woman and her child take refuge at Jowle camp for the displaced in Garowe, Somalia. As of Dec. 31, 2017, 825,000 Somalians had been displaced by conflict. The IDPs, mostly women and children, live primarily in improvised shelters, exposing them to inclement weather, with poor hygiene facilities, thus heightening the risk of communicable diseases. Humanitarians are providing life-saving aid to people in need, but gaps exist. (Photo by Agata Grzybowska/European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection) Photo used under CC BY

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