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Workers at a factory in Dhaka producing clothes for international brands. Bangladesh is the world’s second-largest garment producer after China. Its $30 billion industry employs an estimated 4 million people, 80 percent of them women. Unions have been demanding living wages and better working conditions. (Photo by NYU Stern BHR) Photo used under CC BY

Workers in Bangladesh demand better wages

Garment workers in Bangladesh have rejected an increase in the minimum wage, saying it is still not enough to live on and urging global brands to pay more for the clothes they buy. The workers are among the worst-paid in the world.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Debts, inequality rise in Cambodia

The transition from a subsistence to consumer economy in Cambodia has resulted in rising household debts, growing inequality and waves of outward migration

Asia Times Online

Are Cambodian political prisoners being released to placate the West?

Deutsche Welle

Mexico City is sinking and running out of water

By continually draining water from the lake bed on which it is built, Mexico City is sinking by an estimated 3.2 feet every year, while it simultaneously faces a water crisis. Climate change, political inaction and poor infrastructure are intensifying the problem.

Newsweek

Mexico City: Thirsty and sinking

NPR

Study: 14M in UK live in persistent poverty

More than 14 million people, including 4.5 million children, are living below the breadline in the UK, with more than half trapped in poverty for years, according to a new measure.

Guardian

Some Eritrean refugees afraid to return home

Many Eritrean emigrants fled the country illegally to escape national service. They fear that if they return, they will wind up in jail, or worse. Many don’t have passports.

PRI

Pakistan PM pledges citizenship to refugees

Prime Minister Imran Khan has pledged to implement existing Pakistani laws that would grant citizenship to all Afghan and Bangladeshi refugees who were born on Pakistani soil, a major departure from previous policy.

Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

Ethiopians protest after deadly ethnic violence

At least 200 people have been arrested by police in connection with the violence over the weekend that saw 23 killed.

Al Jazeera

Due process concerns over trials in Nigeria

Human Rights Watch has urged Nigeria to ensure that trials of Boko Haram suspects meet international standards, amid concern about due process.

Times Live

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Greece urged to move vulnerable migrants

Greece should urgently move children and other vulnerable migrants and refugees from its most overcrowded island camp to the mainland or to other EU countries for the sake of their mental and physical health.

Reuters

EU obsessed with cutting migration ‘regardless of human cost’

YouTube

Peru: President in standoff with Congress

Peruvian President Vizcarra is facing a standoff with legislators over his call for a referendum on anti-corruption measures and has invoked a constitutional procedure that could end up dissolving the Congress.

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Kiev’s Maidan relived through virtual reality

Ahead of the anniversary of the protests, a group of journalists, designers and engineers developed a program allowing the user to walk through the area around Maidan square.

Reuters

The push toward science has lowered wages

Policies to boost female participation have helped narrow the gender gap in career earnings but pushing students to study science has resulted in smaller pay packets.

Guardian

GLOBAL HEALTH

Zimbabwe struggles to contain cholera

The capital Harare has been inundated by the outbreak, with more than 3,000 cases reported. NGOs have accused the government of spending state cash on luxury items instead of providing basic healthcare.

Deutsche Welle

Climate change drives global hunger

Along with conflict and instability, this rise in global hunger is driven increasingly by climate change and related extreme weather events, putting some of the world’s most vulnerable citizens at even greater risk.

Axios

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GOOD NEWS

Over 100 cats and dogs escape flooding

Three staff members, 43 dogs and 80 cats were boxed in by flood waters. The Cajun Navy volunteers were able to rescue the staff members animals inside.

Huffington Post

Art project helps rethink mental health

A new portrait project featuring people who have mental health issues aims to make us think again about the language we choose.

Positive News

PHILANTHROPY AND NONPROFITS

Volunteer helping girl gets national attention

Dozens help families during the aftermath of Hurricane Florence. One of them was Amber, who had no idea that she’d become the face of the storm, after a photographer captured a photo of her carrying a young girl to safety.

CBS 4 Indy

How to help those affected by Hurricane Florence

Forbes

How you can help those affected by Typhoon Mangkhut

SBS World News

Coalition saves homes from foreclosure

As the mortgage crisis dragged on, buildings languished in foreclosure, leaving homeowners as well as tenants in limbo. Tenant organizers in Boston began to see the foreclosure crisis as a new front.

Next City

ENVIRONMENT

Rescue phase starts in the Philippines

Hopes of finding survivors in the rubble of a huge landslide in the Philippines faded on as rescuers in a remote mountainous region struggled to reach dozens feared trapped, two days after a powerful typhoon struck.

Reuters

Monster storm Mangkhut leaves trail of death, destruction and massive bill

Asia Times Online

US: Hurricane Florence live updates

CNN

Food shortage looms over Ganges

Millions living in the lower reaches of the Ganges basin in India may face food shortages in the next three decades if the river continues to lose water due to factors including unsustainable groundwater extraction.

Mongabay

ECONOMY

Groups seek to create ‘intelligent city’

Chinese real estate developer and the Suzhou Municipal Government will build up a science and technology city in the Yangtze River Delta area, with artificial intelligence and life sciences as the leading industries.

Asia Times Online

Nigerian president hits back at banking giant

Angered by HSBC predicting defeat for President Buhari in the next election, the Presidency asked HSBC, a global financial institution, to return the loot in its custody.

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A major humanitarian crisis continues to grip Africa’s Lake Chad basin, where violence and destruction have caused huge population displacements, left hundreds of thousands of children trapped behind conflict lines and led to a dramatic increase in malnutrition. (Photo by Espen Røst / Bistandsaktuelt) Photo used under CC BY

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