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Workers pick tea in Tamil Nadu state, India, in 2017. In normal times, India’s tea industry employs about a million people. (Photo by Mike Prince) Photo used under CC BY

Disruption of tea industry a blow to Indian workers

India has the world’s fifth-largest economy but its size hasn’t protected it from the impact of coronavirus and the ensuing lockdown. Unemployment is up by 120 million since March. One of India’s biggest employers, the tea industry, has been hugely impacted.

BBC

Can Bangladesh deal with mountains of COVID-19 medical waste?

Al Jazeera

Ebola flares as measles, COVID-19 rage in DRC

A new outbreak of Ebola has ignited in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is still trying to stamp out an Ebola outbreak from 2018—and is now also battling a massive measles outbreak and COVID-19.

Ars Technica

Cyclone-struck Sundarbans face bleak future

The recent cyclone was devastating for the millions who live in the Sundarbans. Mud homes were swept away, embankments destroyed and farms inundated by saline water.

Al Jazeera

World protests expose deep racial bitterness

Images of a white police officer kneeling on the neck of African-American George Floyd, who then died, have sparked protests from Amsterdam to Nairobi, but they also expose deeper grievances among demonstrators over strained race relations in their own countries.

Reuters

Diplomats condemn US response to protests

The German foreign minister said the protests sparked by George Floyd‘s death are “understandable and more than legitimate.” Russia’s foreign ministry said Moscow was “outraged about the violence used by American law enforcement.”

BBC

China delayed releasing coronavirus info

WHO officials were lauding China in public because they wanted to coax more information out of the government, but behind the scenes, it was a much different story.

Associated Press

Latin American health care workers lack PPE

Across Latin America, many health care professionals report that they have little or no access to personal protective equipment.

Deutsche Welle

Peru’s dead mourned at barren cemetery for poor

Associated Press

Colombia’s poor evicted despite lockdowns

Authorities are forcing people from homes they say were unlawfully built during a nationwide quarantine. Hundreds of Colombia’s poorest residents are caught between two brutal forces: the virus and the local government.

Guardian

HUMAN RIGHTS

Kenyans protest police brutality

Residents of a slum in Kenya’s capital have protested the death of a homeless man who they say was killed by police for violating a dusk-to-dawn curfew for the coronavirus.

ABC News

Long, ugly history of how police have tracked protesters

Fast Company

Lockdown threatens migrant workers in Russia

Coronavirus lockdowns have made life precarious for many, but for millions of migrant workers in Russia, it was an overnight catastrophe, leaving them without jobs and almost immediately without any source of food.

ABC News

How global school closures left children at risk

Covid-19 school closures have exposed children around the world to human rights abuses such as forced genital mutilation, early marriage and sexual violence, child protection experts say.

Guardian

Death of Algerian 10-year-old girl sparks outcry

A 10-year-old girl who died in eastern Algeria while undergoing faith healing appeared to suffer “blows and burns,” sparking angry reactions online after the arrest of a man.

Guardian

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Puerto Rico overhauls 1930 civil code

For the first time in nearly a century, Puerto Rico overhauled a series of laws that regulate rights in the U.S. territory including marriage, abortion and property ownership without having held any public hearings.

ABC News

Embassies in Africa condemn police brutality

U.S. embassies in Africa have issued critical statements, saying no one is above the law. Many Africans have expressed disgust and dismay, openly wondering when the U.S. will ever get it right.

TIME

Iran berates U.S. over police killing, slams racism

Reuters

Ethiopia, Sudan attempt tp stop border violence

Ethiopia says a violent incident along the border with Sudan should be addressed by diplomatic discussions. Sudan agrees that the two countries should deploy a joint force to patrol the border to prevent any violence.

ABC News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Facebook, Snapchat condem racism

Facebook and Snapchat became the latest U.S. companies condemning racial inequality as violent protests flared up across major cities over he death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died in police custody.

Reuters

Facebook group helps vulnerable people in India

Positive News

In virus-hit S. Korea, AI monitors lonely elders

Each flick of the control reveals the search habits of thousands of South Korean seniors being monitored by “smart” speakers, an experimental remote care service increasingly needed during the coronavirus crisis.

Associated Press

GLOBAL HEALTH

Lockdown where social distancing is an illusion

A deceptive calm has fallen over Dhaka. In this densely populated city of 21 million, the main roads are empty, the sounds of horns have disappeared and the polluted sky has cleared. But social distancing is an illusion.

Guardian

The S. African village struggling to stay safe

BBC

Sewage could help warn of new coronavirus outbreaks

CNN

Loss of elders threatens indigenous culture

In some areas, more than 85% of indigenous seniors have been diagnosed with at least one chronic condition, according to a study by Statistics Canada and the National Association of Friendship Centres.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

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GOOD NEWS

Community project unites neighbors in healing

A wall painted with the words “We Grieve,” has become a focal point for the people of Stamford Hill. It is there that they gather each Thursday to remember those who have died during the coronavirus pandemic.

Associated Press

Couple pays off college debt for 50 graduates

Good Morning America

Iran dedicates statue to honor health workers

Al Jazeera

NONPROFIT & PHILANTHROPY

BofA pledges $1B to fight racial inequality

Bank of America is donating $1 billion over the next four years to community programs and small businesses to help address economic and racial inequality that has been exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic.

CNN

Nepal volunteers become pandemic heroes

The Rescue and Awareness volunteer group offered unique services to communities in Nepal affected by the pandemic for which they gained tremendous praise from local doctors, hospital officials and civic leaders.

Associated Press

ENVIRONMENT

Extinction crisis threatens civilization itself

Human impacts on the places on Earth with the most richness of life have brought hundreds of wild animals to the brink of extinction. This is yet more evidence that the world’s undergoing a sixth mass extinction, scientists argue.

BBC

Using butterflies to protect forests in Kenya

Deutsche Welle

Firms push for a green COVID-19 recovery

More than 200 top UK firms and investors say efforts to repair the economy should support the government’s commitment to tackle the climate change crisis.

BBC

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

India sets aside $6.7B to boost tech market

India launched a $6.65 billion plan to boost electronics manufacturing, saying it would start by offering five global smartphone makers incentives to establish or expand domestic production.

Reuters

Poor countries face extreme debt crisis

From Angola to Jamaica to Ecuador to Zambia, the world’s poor countries have had their finances shredded by the global pandemic. Economic activity has ground to a halt, closing ports, factories, and emptying resorts.

The Independent

Photo of the Day

Protesters demonstrated June 1 in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, over the death of African-American George Floyd in police custody. The homicide has sparked protests worldwide. (Photo by Dan Gaken) Photo used under CC BY

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