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Children inside a classroom at Za’atri refugee camp, near Mafraq, Jordan, host to tens of thousands of Syrians displaced by conflict. Last year, the number of out-of-school refugee children increased by 500,000, according to the latest UNICEF report. (Photo by UN Photo/Mark Garten.) Photo used under CC BY

Half of refugees are kids, and most aren’t in school

Half of the world’s refugees are children, according to a UNICEF. Of those who are of school-age, more than half are not in the classroom. That means 4 million children around the world are out of school.

USA TODAY

Malaysia urged to address stateless children

FMT News

Child refugees in Nigeria seek help

Al Jazeera

Pakistani LGBT hopeful after India’s ruling

India’s decriminalization of gay sex was celebrated by the LGBT community in Pakistan, who face harsher restrictions due to the prevalence of Sharia law.

Asia Times Online

830 women die each day giving birth, UN says

According to the latest UN global estimates, 303,000 women a year die in childbirth, or as a result of complications arising from pregnancy. This equates to roughly one every two minutes.

Guardian

UN plans to restart Yemen peace talks

The United Nations has announced the restarting of peace talks. A new scheme would introduce a set of confidence-building measures within a week, including reopening Sana’a airport, prisoner swaps and payment of civil service salaries.

Political Lore

Disabled Kenyan orphans face stigma, poverty

Thousands of disabled children in Kenya — abandoned by their parents due to poverty and stigma — are being neglected and uncared for in orphanages across the east African country.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Infanticide in Kenya: ‘I was told to kill my disabled baby’

BBC

UN passes resolution adopting peasant rights

Peasants and other people working in rural areas are only a step away from having a UN declaration that could defend and protect their rights to land, seeds, biodiversity, local markets and a lot more.

CADTM

HUMAN RIGHTS

Brazilian women lead protests against fascism

Thousands of people took to the streets of Brazil’s major cities on Saturday in women-led protests against far-right presidential front-runner, who flew home after weeks in hospital recovering from a near-fatal stab wound.

Reuters

Deported father takes risk to reunite with son

Alone in detention, Ramirez quickly became distraught. He says he was promised that if he signed deportation papers, his son would accompany him back to Guatemala. He signed, but had found himself alone.

The Intercept

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Mexican army massacre goes unpunished

Today‘s student activists acknowledge they now have free speech, something the ’68 generation fought for. But they say the impunity remains the same; nobody was ever convicted for the 1968 killings.

ABC News

Cameroon claims victory over Boko Haram

Security is a major issue in Cameroon, which faces a bloody separatist movement. President Biya said he would focus on rebuilding “now that terrorism has been defeated.”

CBC News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Gene editing amplifies groundcherry prospects

Altering fruit DNA could be the next big thing in the world of berries. Taking the groundcherry, a fruit that has never gained popularity, researchers were able to quickly boost its size and productivity by editing its genes.

The Independent

School facial recognition fuels privacy debate

It took three years, 8 million faces and more than 8 billion data points to develop the technology, which can identify a face with near perfect accuracy. The short-term goal is increased school safety.

ABC News

GLOBAL HEALTH

Separated border kids suffer as they age

Kids separated from their parents at the U.S. border have landed in shelters where they often experience neglect. These kids are at risk for depression, disruptive behavior and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.

ScienceDaily

Drug-resistant TB threatens developing world

Tuberculosis is the deadliest infectious disease, with most deaths coming from the developing world. Patients are developing drug-resistant tuberculosis, which kills more people than any other drug-resistant pathogen.

Vox

Bangladesh government’s war on drugs is masking extrajudicial killings

Vice

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GOOD NEWS

Celebrity donates to shut down dog meat farm

Simon Cowell has donated to charity to help shut down a dog meat farm in South Korea. Workers from charity Humane Society International are hoping to fly to South Korea and save the 200 dogs housed at the farm.

Newshub

Widowed woman helps redeem prisoners

The murder of her husband inspired her to help the lives of prisoners. She followed her husband‘s offender through the prison system and realized the offender’s actions were based on his upbringing.

CBC News

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Group puts unused paint to good use

Community RePaint, a network of 74 projects, aims to reduce the paint going to landfill. The network wants to cut waste and provide a way for charities, community groups and low-income households to freshen up their walls.

Guardian

Airtel donates water tanks to Kenyan schools

This was in support of a project that seeks to involve the local community that resides around a national park in conservation awareness to reduce and completely eradicate poaching and illegal activities in the park.

Capital FM

ENVIRONMENT

Indonesia flanked by fog of disaster

Indonesia scrambled to get help into quake-hit Sulawesi island as survivors streamed away from their ruined homes and tales of devastation from remote areas, including the death of 34 children at a Christian camp.

Reuters

Indonesian death toll hits 1,200

NPR

Relief begins to mobilize for quake victims

Straits Times

Profiteers shred Amazon despite pleas

Business growth rates are among Brazil’s highest. Scientists warn that further Amazon deforestation could worsen climate change, bringing extreme drought and a shift from rainforest to savanna in the region.

Mongabay

ECONOMY

American poverty persists in good economy

Poverty is largely defined as being unable to afford a minimum standard of living. The United States has come a long way in addressing the problem, but progress has slowed despite economic recovery.

Coloradoan

Nigeria mires self in economic uncertainties

Nigeria, no doubt, has the global reputation as a country rich in natural resources. But developing events have only sidelined expected progress, with a slogan “huge potential” pasted on the country’s identity.

Guardian Nigeria

Poor suffer as UK turns toward cashlessness

Nearly 3,000 bank branches have closed across the UK since 2015. More than 130 communities, many of them in poor areas, now have no ATM and are increasingly shut out of essential services.

Guardian

Photo of the Day

Rohingya boys from Myanmar wash and play with a water pump at a refugee camp in Bangladesh. (Photo by Pierre Prakash EU/ECHO 2013) Photo used under CC BY

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