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El Hogar Infantil orphanage in Tijuana, Mexico. The United Nations and groups including Save the Children have warned against the practice known as orphanage tourism or trafficking, which campaigners consider to be modern slavery. (Photo by justinknabb) Photo used under CC BY

UN, groups warn against orphanage trafficking

Children in countries from Cambodia to Haiti are taken from their homes and put into orphanages to attract donations and help from volunteers - often tourists - according to charities.

Devidscourse

The shameful truth about modern slavery

Missions Box

Afghan women face jail for failing virginity test

Women in Afghanistan continue to be subjected to virginity tests, which can lead to arrest and imprisonment. The practice was banned in 2016. Women are imprisoned for what are considered “moral crimes,” which include running away from home and having sex before marriage.

Guardian

Poor public policies widen global rich-poor divide

The richest 1 percent of the global population nabbed four-fifths of wealth created between mid-2016 and mid-2017, while the poorest half saw no increase in wealth.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Rise in aboriginal kids removed from families

The number of aboriginal Australian children removed from their families and placed in out-of-home care has doubled in the past 10 years. Authorities say only children in imminent danger are removed, but victims feel they are disproportionately targeted.

PRI

Turkish dam will leave hundreds homeless

Hundreds of people displaced by a huge dam in southeast Turkey fear they could go homeless because resettlement laws prevent them from moving into a new government-built town above the rising Tigris River waters.

Reuters

Peru combats malnutrition in Andean children

More than two in every five children under the age of 3 – 44 percent of the total – suffer from anemia in the Andean country due to a poor diet, according to a family health survey done by Peru’s statistics agency.

Borneo Bulletin

Two million Afghan kids will suffer severe malnutrition this year

Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

India’s #MeToo movement gains momentum

The #MeToo movement in India has recently gathered steam, with dozens of sexual harassment complaints and other misconduct charges leveled online against prominent journalists, actors and other public figures.

Reuters

UN demands more donations for refugees

The agency tasked with helping refugees and displaced persons has appealed to donor countries to help plug a widening funding gap. The shortage of cash is acute in global hotspots.

Deutsche Welle

Journalists face death around the world

Globally, reporters are facing growing threats of violence, according to campaigners. At least 43 journalists have been killed in 2018 so far.

The Independent

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Cameroon tensely waits for election results

Voting was mainly peaceful, though not for the conflict-ridden Anglophone regions, where gunfire and other incidents were reported. Anxiety remains high as there is now a long wait for results.

Quartz

Thousands rally for ‘refugee mayor’ in Italy

An estimated 6,000 people protested in Riace, a small village in Italy, against the arrest of its mayor, Domenico Lucano. Known as the refugee mayor, he stands accused of aiding and abetting undocumented migration.

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Drier environment spurred human evolution

Evidence of progressively drying climate coincides with a major shift in stone-tool-making abilities and the appearance of Homo sapiens.

ScienceDaily

Google’s urban development raises concerns

Google is proposing to turn a rundown part of Toronto into what may be the most wired community in history. But some Canadians are rethinking the privacy implications of this new relationship with Google.

The Star

GLOBAL HEALTH

Guatemalan midwives face extinction

In Guatemala, indigenous women are more likely to die during pregnancy as non-indigenous women. In addition, a strained relationship with the government has contributed to the shrinking network of indigenous midwives.

Al Jazeera

As temps rise, so will mental health issues

A rise in average monthly temperatures is tied to a small increase in mental health issues. And over five years, a 1 degree Celsius increase in average temperature results in an even greater prevalence of mental difficulties.

CNN

Indonesians fight time, disaster to find life

Reuters

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GOOD NEWS

Innkeeper welcomes families hit by flooding

Jaret has taken in every member of families affected by flooding, including their pets. But even more important is the generosity he has inspired in others.

CBS News

Janitor wins prize from school she cleans

Trinity College Dublin presented Caitríona Lally the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, one of Ireland’s most prestigious literary honors. For the past three and a half years, Lally has worked as a janitor at the college.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Clothing center supports students in need

Over time, gaps in attendance create difficulties in student learning. The goal of one nonprofit is to improve school attendance by providing an in-school resource of clothing to students below the poverty line.

U.S. News & World Report

Map:

See US racial and ethnic diversity mapped block by block

National Geographic

Zuckerberg seeks chief for philanthropy fund

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is hunting for a chief investment officer to oversee $10 billion for his philanthropy initiative that is interested in eradicating disease, improving education and reforming the criminal justice system.

Bloomberg

ENVIRONMENT

Far-right candidate puts Amazon at risk

Brazilian candidate Bolsonaro wants indigenous territories mined, relaxed environmental law enforcement and licensing, international NGOs banned from the country, and a strong alliance with the beef lobby.

Guardian

New climate change report calls for action

From worsened droughts to collateral effects on global poverty, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s report outlines likely damage, and changes needs to make to slow down catastrophic global warming.

Asia Times Online

How you can help the new climate change report

Guardian

ECONOMY AND TRADE

IMF tasks African countries to lift continent

According to the IMF, Nigeria, South Africa and Angola are impeding the growth of the African economy. Nigeria however, can expect significant growth in the coming years.

Thenationonlineng.net

Global stocks mixed after IMF report

U.S. News & World Report

Syrian refugees often pushed to illegal work

Initially, the focus of many organizations was to help refugee youth get a better education. Now the focus has shifted to helping graduates find jobs, although opportunities are scant, and often illegal.

Al-Fanar Media

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Two Somali girls hold their twin brothers outside a tented-hospital ward at a free Outpatient’s Department medical clinic at the headquarters of the Burundi Contingent serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia at the former National University in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. (Photo by Stuart Price) Photo used under CC BY

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