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Widows in Ratnal, India. In the late 1990s, Ratnal was known as a village of widows. In some sections of Indian society, widows are discouraged from leaving their houses or meeting people. (Photo by Nevil Zaveri) Photo used under CC BY

‘Climate change widows’ endure harsh bias in India

Women suffer most in the aftermath of a disaster, and those from unprivileged castes face further exclusion with limited access to resources. The 2013 catastrophe left hundreds of women alone after their husbands and sons died. Rudraprayag alone has 296 widows.

Al Jazeera

WhatsApp to clamp down on ‘sinister’ messages

Reuters

Social media movement successful in Nigeria

After a months-long social media campaign, #EndSARS, by activists protesting alleged human rights abuses by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Nigeria’s president has issued an order overhauling the controversial unit.

CNN

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Nigerian journalists, activists detained, allege torture

Human Rights Watch

5 heavyweights stymie UN, rights chief says

The outgoing United Nations human rights chief has warned the world body’s five permanent Security Council member states wield too much power, which could “collapse.” China, France, the UK, Russia and the U.S. are “running too much of the business”.

Al Jazeera

Ethiopia asked to probe abuse in Somali region

The government of Ethiopia should commit to an in-depth, independent fact-finding mission into many years of rights abuses and violations of the laws of war in eastern Ethiopia’s Somali region, said HRW.

allAfrica.com

S. Africa seizes first white-owned farms

The South African government has begun the process of seizing white-owned farmland, reportedly filing legal papers seeking to expropriate two farms for one-tenth of their estimated value.

The Washington Times

Zuma corruption claims: South Africa state capture inquiry opens

BBC

Refugees increasingly finding jobs in Germany

A growing number of migrants are finding jobs in Germany, according to released data. The figures will feed into a running debate on the impact of Merkel’s decision to open German borders to more than a million migrants.

Reuters

HUMAN RIGHTS

Venezuela accused of crimes against humanity

Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri plans to report Venezuela to the International Criminal Court at The Hague for alleged crimes against humanity. Macri said he had the backing of the presidents of Colombia, Chile and Paraguay.

Reuters

Australian NGOs demand Nauru be cleared

A coalition of some of Australia’s biggest humanitarian organizations has given the government a deadline to get all asylum seeker and refugee children off Nauru, as the health and safety crisis on the island worsens.

Guardian

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Pakistan PM sells fleet to launch austerity drive

Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Imran Khan called for the rich to start paying taxes and said the country will begin an austerity drive to reduce debt, a campaign he will kick-start by selling his office’s fleet of bulletproof cars.

Reuters

EU to make social media curtail extremism

The European Commission is making websites delete extremist content on their sites within an hour to avoid fines. The E.U. is abandoning its current approach - where the firms self-police - in favor of explicit rules.

BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Calls grow for ban on autonomous weapons

The use of autonomous weapons in a theatre of war breaches international law, as calls for a ban on ‘killer robots’ intensify. These AI-powered machines could fight future wars without being subject to any human control.

Guardian

Six experts debate killer robots

YouTube

New study links Facebook use to racial violence

Researchers studied 3,335 cases of anti-refugee violence and found that wherever per-person Facebook use rose to one standard deviation above the national average, attacks on refugees increased by 50 percent.

The New Republic

GLOBAL HEALTH

New malaria testing device a ‘game changer’

Globally, the disease kills almost half a million people a year, mostly children living in sub-Saharan Africa. The makers a new device could speed up testing times since it does not need to draw blood or use invasive needles.

BBC

Tanzania bracing for possible Ebola outbreak

A Tanzanian government senior official said the country has a high risk of Ebola outbreak. The Ebola virus disease killed 50 out of 91 patients in neighboring Congo.

The Punch

Death toll rises in second Congo outbreak

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Himanshu Thakkar):

Modi’s home state facing water crisis after years of misplaced priorities

Asia Times Online

Column (Bernd Riegert):

Post-austerity, Greece gets a second chance

Deutsche Welle

Column (Kwame Anthony Appiah):

Why social class matters, even if we don’t agree what it means

Chronicle of Higher Education

Column (Brian Earp):

It takes a lifetime of preparation to grieve as the Stoics did – with a heart full of love

Aeon

Column (Robert Kuttner):

Stop wallowing in your white guilt and start doing something for racial justice

Huffington Post

Column (Tom Chivers):

Why not wreck the planet? It could save your political skin

CNN

Column (Nanjana Nyabola):

War and literature in Mogadishu

Al Jazeera

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GOOD NEWS

Gardening helping ex-offenders reintegrate

In Senegal, social activism and hip-hop are being cultivated in a center run by rapper Fou Malade. Here he has been rehabilitating ex-offenders through a series of workshops including music, graffiti and gardening.

Deutsche Welle

Police give ailing backer special ride to school

Simmons, a third-grader battling a brain tumor, raised money through his lemonade stand over summer for the local police department. He got a special ride in a police car on the first day back to school.

MSN

PHILANTHROPY AND NONPROFITS

Emirates Red Crescent leads Kerala flood relief

The Emirates Red Crescent has announced a nationwide fundraising campaign, coinciding with Arafat Day, helping people affected by the floods in the Indian state of Kerala.

Gulf News

China to keep giving aid to Pacific islands

China will continue to provide aid to Tonga and other countries in the Pacific to help them achieve sustainable development, China’s Foreign Ministry said, amid a mounting debt problem in the region.

Reuters

Tonga called on Pacific islands to band together against China — then had a sudden change of heart

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

ENVIRONMENT

Summer weather ‘stuck’ due to Arctic warming

Rising arctic temperatures mean we face a future of “extreme extremes” where sunny days become heat waves and rainy days are consumed by floods.

Guardian

Chilean trees dying amid changing climate

Scientists in Chile are studying the deaths of hundreds of the country’s Araucaria, or ‘Monkey Puzzle’ trees, which they believe may have been weakened by climate change and then killed off by disease.

Channel NewsAsia

ECONOMY

Malaysia lobbies Chinese amid fiscal woes

Malaysia’s leader said that he hoped China would sympathize with his country’s fiscal problems as he met with the country’s leaders after suspending billion-dollar construction projects financed by Chinese loans.

ABC News

Sweden economy lifted by migrants

Gross domestic product increased more than the Euro zone’s growth. In recent years, Sweden has granted thousands of work permits to information technology developers, berry pickers, and cooks.

Bloomberg

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A fruit seller in Mumbai, India. (Photo by Karl Grenet) Photo used under CC BY

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