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Women rehearse a performance of “Un Violador en tu Camino” (“A Rapist in Your Path”) in Mexico City in 2019. (Photo by Wotancito) Photo used under CC BY

Mexican activists condemn inaction on femicide crisis

Many activists had hoped Mexico’s left-wing president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, would take decisive action to slow a wave of killing. Instead, they say, things are getting worse.

Guardian

Australia urged to take action amid rising violence against women

Al Jazeera

India’s Himalayan apple farmers feel the heat

Rising temperatures and irregular snowfall are impacting the conditions necessary to grow the fruit. In the face of lost business, India’s apple farmers are adapting.

Deutsche Welle

UN food aid chief fears virus-driven downturn

The head of the UN’s food aid agency warned of “absolute devastation” in Africa and parts of the Middle East in coming months if wealthier nations grappling with an economic downturn linked to the new coronavirus don’t step up aid efforts in countries in need.

Japan Times

WHO urges nations to ‘pull out all the stops’ in coronavirus fight

CBS News

Thailand caught in a destabilizing viral spiral

Asia Times Online

Turkey, Russia agree to Idlib ceasefire

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have announced a military ceasefire in Idlib, the last rebel stronghold in Syria.

Al Jazeera

Tax amnesty let Kenyans launder $8B, US says

The U.S. says an amnesty offered by Kenya in 2018 facilitated the laundering of more than $7.9 billion because the taxman did not have a policy to monitor the inflows.

allAfrica.com

HUMAN RIGHTS

Child migrants sleep in pens at Lesbos port

Over 700 migrants have arrived on the Greek island of Lesbos in less than a week, since Turkey opened its borders to refugees desperate to reach Europe.

BBC

Why are detainees dying in Assam?

Families of three men who died in detention centers under mysterious circumstances accuse authorities of cover up.

Al Jazeera

Transgender health ignored in U.S. detention

Inspections of the transgender unit at the Cibola County Correctional Center in New Mexico, found hundreds of unanswered requests for medical attention, poor quarantine procedures and deficient treatment

Reuters

Israel’s Arab parties make historic gains

Arab politicians are set to make historic gains in the Israeli election, taking more seats than ever before and solidifying their position as the third-largest force in the Knesset, the country’s parliament.

Guardian

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Internet shutdown in India splinters democracy

For nearly seven months, Kashmir has weathered the longest-running internet shutdown in any democracy—the culmination of a troubling trend in India that has cost the country’s economy billions.

Fast Company

Italy shuts schools over coronavirus

Italy is to close all schools and universities to try to contain its worsening coronavirus outbreak, a government source said, as cases continued to rise in Europe’s worst hit country.

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Scientists use CRISPR gene-editing on patient

For the first time, scientists have used the gene-editing technique CRISPR to try to edit a gene while the DNA is still inside a person’s body, by injecting it into the eye of a patient blinded by a rare genetic disorder.

NPR

Greece’s dolphin sanctuary created by women

A team of female scientists are building a sanctuary in Greece for dolphins released from captivity, the first of its kind. The sanctuary will offer refuge to local animals, those threatened or injured, even from theme parks.

Al Jazeera

11-year-old receives bionic hero arm

CNN

India’s new health map for women, children

Launched in Jhalawar, in Rajasthan state, by the Antara Foundation in 2015, the integrated program, known as Akshada, focuses on the crucial 1,000 days between conception and the second year in a child’s life.

Guardian

Your pet can’t catch coronavirus

They’re your furry best friend and a fixture of your home -- but could your beloved cat or dog give you coronavirus? Experts agree, almost definitely not.

CNN

A mobile team saves sight in the Kenyan bush

Trachoma is the most common infectious cause of blindness in the world. Kenya aims to eliminate the disease in four years, helped by teams who traverse desert and bushland to reach scattered communities.

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

Teen helps blind woman cross the street

A photo of 15-year-old Dontarius Caldwell showing the young teen helping the woman at Louisville went viral. “I was just helping the elderly, giving a helping hand. ... Everybody gotta get a helping hand,” he said.

MSM

Single dad adopts abandoned 13-year-old boy

Tony was adopted at age 4, but two years ago Tony’s adoptive parents abandoned him at a hospital. Foster parent Peter Muatbazi took Tony for a weekend, but when he learned Tony’s story, he knew he had to adopt him.

SunnySkyz

Six-year-old donates hair to kids with cancer

When she was 4, Caleigh decided she wanted to donate her hair to Wigs for Kids. Her mom, Nicole Pesina, said she made up her mind after seeing a commercial for St. Jude’s. Two years later, she wants to do it again.

MSM

Man saves his family from fire

A North Carolina man managed to save his family from a devastating house fire after a motion sensor camera he had set up outside tipped him off about the blaze.

MSM

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Enslaved children seek solace in night school

A local charity runs two-hour lessons in Ethiopia attended by about 130 students, most of them young maids, with permission from their employers to go to school once their chores are done.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Family restaurant launches a giving board

A small restaurant in Clarkesville is serving up a new kind of customer service, where their customers are helping to serve each other.

11Alive

Mom creates nonprofit for trans teens to get new wardrobe for free

Today

ENVIRONMENT

Tropical forests losing ability to absorb carbon

Tropical forests are taking up less carbon dioxide from the air, reducing their ability to act as “carbon sinks” and bringing closer the prospect of accelerating climate breakdown.

Guardian

Plastic-chomping caterpillars reduce pollution

The tiny waxworm went from zero to hero in 2017 when researchers discovered the caterpillar could potentially help solve one of the world’s most pressing environmental problems: plastic waste.

CNN

Gambian women promote recycling

Fed up with Gambia‘s mounting waste problem, Isatou Ceesay set up an initiative called ’One Plastic Bag’. It promotes recycling and provides women with additional income.

Deutsche Welle

Climate change increases risk of bushfire

Global warming boosted the risk of the hot, dry weather that caused bushfires in Australia by at least 30%. If global temperatures rise by 2C, such conditions are at least four times more likely.

BBC

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

Normalizing menstrual health in Asia

Olivia Cotes-James wants us to talk about menstrual health. She is combating period stigma as the founder of LUÜNA Naturals, which hails itself as Asia’s first period care company and all-female leadership team.

France 24

Girls stay longer in school but obesity, suicide and sexual violence remain risks

Guardian

Coronavirus infects Africa’s economy

So far, Nigeria and Senegal are the only two countries in sub-Saharan Africa to be officially affected by COVID-19. But the economic consequences of the coronavirus outbreak are already being felt on the continent.

Deutsche Welle

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Refugees living in an abandoned factory near Saida, Lebanon. (Photo by Anthony Gale) Photo used under CC BY

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