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A Rohingya girl in the massive refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The UN Migration Agency says families desperate for money frequently send their daughters to work in dangerous environments. Despite the often false promises of work and a better life, some victims are unaware of the risks; others are desperate enough to accept them. (Photo by UN Women/Allison Joyce) Photo used under CC BY

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Desperate Rohingyas sell daughters into forced labor

The number of Rohingya refugees has reached nearly 1 million. Young girls sold into forced labor in Bangladesh account for the largest group of trafficking victims, according to the UN. Families desperate for money often send their daughters to work in dangerous environments.

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Climate displacement pushes girls into prostitution

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

Sexual abuse rife in European parliaments

Sexism, harassment and violence against women are widespread in European parliaments, according to a new study, pointing to a work culture involving threats of violence, psychological harassment and sexual harassment, among other offenses.

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CNN

40M in danger of losing homes within 5 years

A lack of formal documentation and poor implementation of land laws has made tens of millions of people around the world vulnerable to losing their homes and land in the next five years, according to a survey of 15 countries.

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Reuters

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Aboriginal rangers use traditional knowledge to protect their lands

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PRI

NGO: Afghanistan unsafe for returning kids

Children attempting to return to Afghanistan after fleeing warfare face violence, recruitment attempts by extremists, and a lack of support. Save the Children aid reports on the plight of people returned to Afghanistan as minors.

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Afghans risking their lives to vote

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Daily Mail

Scottish salmon industry hurting environment

The Scottish aquaculture industry has ambitious targets for growth. However, that growth comes at a high cost; it may cause irrecoverable damage to the environment.

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NPR

Illegal mining leaves toxic waste in Indonesia

Illegal gold mining in the eastern Indonesian island of Buru is turning the mountain slopes into a toxic wasteland, leaching the deadly heavy metal into the island’s floodplain.

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Asia Times Online

HUMAN RIGHTS

Australia breached human rights, UN body says

A United Nations body has called on Australia to review its domestic laws in a ruling that it had breached multiple international human rights laws by indefinitely separating refugee families by placing them in detention centers.

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Guardian

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Pressure mounts on Australia over child refugees

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Al Jazeera

South Korea denies refugee status to Yemeni

South Korea has denied refugee status but granted temporary humanitarian stay permits to hundreds of Yemeni asylum seekers who arrived on the southern island of Jeju this year.

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Bloomberg

ISIS kidnaps women, children in Syria

Isis fighters have kidnapped dozens of women and children from a displacement camp in the eastern Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor, where the group is making a desperate last stand.

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The Independent

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Women occupy half of new cabinet in Ethiopia

Ethiopia’s new cabinet put forward by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is now a record 50 percent female, with women being assigned key ministerial portfolios such as ministries of peace, trade and industry and defense.

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Al Jazeera

Honduras, Guatemala move to stop migrants

The organizer of a migrant caravan from Honduras was detained in Guatemala as the U.S. government threatened to withdraw aid from both countries and El Salvador if the flow of migrants the United States was not stopped.

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Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

New solar tech helps kids in poor nations study

Seattle-based nonprofit Extend the Day has been providing free solar-powered reading lights to children in impoverished countries that lack reliable electricity, allowing them to study past sunset with a safe, clean light.

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Geekwire

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How we can use tech to help lift people out of poverty

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Wind farms worsening environmental impact?

According to studies, in a quest for low-carbon energy sources, transitioning to wind or solar power would require five to 20 times more land than previously thought, further warming average surface temperatures.

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SciTechDaily

GLOBAL HEALTH

Microcephaly in Angola points to Zika outbreak

Experts worry about the spread of the birth defect marked by a small head and serious developmental problems in a new continent, and about a possible sense of complacency now that Brazil’s Zika crisis has largely waned.

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NBCNews.com

Spain leads Japan in global life expectancy

Spain will overtake Japan‘s long-held position at the top of the world’s life expectancy table by 2040, while the United States is set to take a big fall in rankings, new research finds.

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CNN

Scientists worried about synthetic smallpox

Scientists published a paper describing how they pieced together segments of DNA to bring back a previously eradicated virus, horsepox. What’s worrying them? A similar process could be used to bring back the deadly smallpox.

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GOOD NEWS

Zimbabwean grandmas deliver free therapy

Zimbabwe is pioneering a groundbreaking mental health program with stunning results – and the rest of the world is taking note.

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BBC

Classmates save student from deportation

A 14-year-old schoolboy, whose classmates mounted a campaign against his deportation to Nigeria, has been granted leave to remain in Ireland along with his mother and brother.

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RTÉ News

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Donors are futile without local governments

Aid experts say donors must work closely with local governments, which in turn must do more to foster the economic growth that could lift millions out of poverty.

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France 24

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Trump threatens Honduran aid cuts

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CNBC

Gates launches environmental fund

The new group intends to bolster funding and search for sensible climate solutions all over the world and present a plan to the 2019 UN climate summit.

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National Geographic

Bill Gates is worried about population growth

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Vox

Britain starts foreign aid sex offenders list

A new global register of sex offenders aims to crack down on abuse in the aid sector. The new program follows a scandal about predators working for Oxfam, confirming abuse in the aid sector is an epidemic.

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The Independent

ENVIRONMENT

Biodiversity bludgeoned by human activity

Many scientists say we’re in the midst of a sixth mass extinction. And, according to a new study, it’ll take several million years for mammals to bounce back from the extinctions that have been occurring because of us.

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National Geographic

Water pollution in Iraq threatens religious rites

Every Sunday in Iraq, along a portion of the Tigris River reserved for Mandaean followers, worshippers bathe to purify their souls. Now, the river that runs through Baghdad is fouled by sewage and floating dead carp.

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ABC News

ECONOMY AND TRADE

Half of humanity lives on $5.50 every day

A report finds that 3.4 billion people struggle to meet basic needs. But that means 736 million people around the world were still living in extreme poverty.

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U.S. News & World Report

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The killer lung disease behind the forgotten human cost of China Shenzhen’s economic miracle

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Some Germans collect bottles as a top up

Walk in any German city and you will spot bottle collectors. Only a small number are homeless, as most are welfare recipients, who struggle to make ends meet. It‘s a sign of Germany’s broken welfare system.

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Nigeria ranked as 115th most competitive economy in the world

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CNBC

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Farmers sifting grain by hand in Eritrea, in northeastern Africa. (Photo by David Stanley) Photo used under CC BY

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