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A Syrian child stands in the snow in a refugee camp in Arsal, in the Lebanese Bekaa Valley, in December 2013. Tens of thousands of Syrians fled their homes in and around Raqa in the months leading up to battles in which U.S.-backed forces ousted jihadists from the northern city in October 2017. Syrian refugees are now preparing as best they can to weather the winter in tents. (Photo by AFP/Getty Images) Photo used under CC BY

Syrians displaced by war brace for winter in tents

Displaced Syrians from the eastern city of Deir Ezzor and Raqqa who were forced to leave by the war against ISIS, reside in flimsy white tents. They are preparing as best as they can to endure the coming winter under canvas.

Channel NewsAsia

Children suffer sexual abuse in Moria camp

Newsweek

Laos land law may block customary rights

A new land law may bring greater transparency in land management and modernization of records in Laos, but it could also curb ownership by women, as well as the customary rights of rural and indigenous people.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Europe’s migration crisis fueling child trafficking

In the wake of Europe’s migration crisis, traffickers are targeting children and forcing them to work in farms and factories or selling them for sex. Europol is urging nations to do more to protect children.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Nicaragua accused of extrajudicial killings

Nicaraguan authorities carried out arbitrary detentions and torture and used lethal force against anti-government protesters as part of an “intensified strategy for repression,” according to Amnesty International.

Al Jazeera

Senegal’s girls sexually exploited by teachers

In the Sédhiou region of Senegal, female students as young as 16 are being lured by teachers for sex in exchange for better grades, food, mobile phones, and new clothes, according to a report by Human Rights Watch.

CNN

US may resume separating immigrant families

Another caravan is on its way from Central America to the U.S. border, enraging the Trump administration, which is considering resuming family separations to deter asylum-seeking migrants from crossing the border illegally.

NPR

Study says family separations are causing a mental health crisis in the Rio Grande Valley

Texas Tribune

More than 200 children still in detention after immigrant family separations

Hawaii News Now

HUMAN RIGHTS

War weapons used against Nicaragua protesters

“Weapons of war” are said to have been used to kill and injure anti-government protesters in Nicaragua, as part of a violent crackdown ordered by the government, according to an investigation by Amnesty International.

Guardian

Nicaragua police arrests anti-government protesters

Al Jazeera

Climate change chains Cambodians to slavery

Climate change is forcing Cambodian farmers off their lands and into the clutches of a predatory brick-making industry where a lifetime of debt bondage awaits them and their children, according to a study released today.

abc.net.au

US police sexual assaults are common

According to research, police officers in the U.S. were charged with forcible rape 405 times between 2005 and 2013. Yet experts say those statistics aren’t comprehensive. Data on sexual assaults by police are almost nonexistent.

CNN

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Queensland parliament legalizes abortion

Abortion will become legal until 22 weeks gestation, thereafter with approval of doctors in Queensland, after parliament voted to support new legislation, erasing a 119-year-old “morality” section of the state’s criminal code.

Guardian

Women in U.S. can now get safe abortions by mail

The Atlantic

Bhutan chooses new party for government

Bhutan voted in a new party headed by Dr. Lotay Tshering, a urology surgeon who vowed to work for “nation building” in the Himalayan kingdom battling high foreign debt, youth employment, rural poverty and criminal gangs.

Channel NewsAsia

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

A blue pill is stopping HIV, study shows

An antiviral pill taken daily by thousands of men across Australia has led to a globally unprecedented reduction in new HIV cases, showing that a targeted, preventative approach may aid ending the AIDS epidemic.

The Japan Times

Nutrient-rich fish weaponized to fight hunger

A new campaign aims to improve family nutrition by getting pregnant women and kids to eat fish grown in ponds and rice paddies. This method can subvert food lost to disaster or corruption, keeping families consistently fed.

Reuters

Growth of Internet access slowing down

The growth of internet access around the world has slowed dramatically, according to new data, suggesting the digital revolution will remain a distant dream for billions of the poorest and most isolated people in the world.

Guardian

GLOBAL HEALTH

Ebola is at a tipping point in Congo

Health officials’ longstanding fears about the potent mix of armed conflict in weak states — combined with a highly infectious disease outbreak — are being realized. In the Congo, an Ebola virus outbreak threatens to expand.

Axios

Heart disease is now striking the world’s poor

HIV/AIDS or malaria is not the world’s biggest killer. Research shows that heart disease is responsible for a third of all global deaths, and most of them are in the developing world.

Vox

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GOOD NEWS

Indian state now only farms organic produce

India’s state of Sikkim has won the award for the being the 100 percent organic state that promotes agro-ecological and sustainable food systems. The hundred full transition has benefited more than 66,000 farming families.

India Times

NGO makes disease-fighting shoes for poor

Over one billion people around the world are infected with parasites that enter through their shoeless feet — 300 million are in Africa alone. Samaritan’s Feet’s plastic shoes with antimicrobial properties solves this problem.

CBS News

Artists invite refugees to transform shelter

The duo behind Favela Painting launched Amsterdam Project, in which they invited refugees to transform a prison-turned-refugee shelter with paint, helping them learn skills while fostering friendships in their new home.

Good News Network

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

New nonprofit helps match poor with doctors

Physician shortages, cost and distance can make specialty care prohibitive for many low-income patients. A nonprofit aims to tackle those challenges by utilizing tele-health tech and retiring, volunteer doctors.

PBS NewsHour

One NGO seeks to farm with discarded silt

Manmade lakes created by dams around the world create a silt problem that is solved by an expensive dredging process. An NGO has taken the nutrient rich silt and found a way to grow legumes and cereal grains.

New York Magazine

Germany will provide $115M aid to Iraq, Syria

Germany says it will provide $115 million in development aid to Iraq and Syria to rebuild areas once occupied by the Islamic State. This will aid in restoring electricity, water, sewage and street repairs among other efforts.

Yahoo! News

ENVIRONMENT

World’s largest organism, Pando, is dying

The largest organism in the world, a grove of quaking aspens called Pando thought to be thousands of years old, is dying due to human encroachment including campgrounds, power lines, hiking trails and cabins.

Forbes

Chinese demand fuels mass deforestation

Al Jazeera

Oil-rich Bahrain applies to Green Climate Fund

Bahrain, one of the world’s most oil-rich nations, has applied to the international Green Climate Fund for $9.8 million, raising questions over whether taxpayer-funded assistance for poor countries is reaching its intended targets.

Guardian

ECONOMY AND TRADE

Young Africans look to modernize farming

Many African youth are abandoning rural areas, choosing not to toil in the fields — a job made touger by climate change. But some are working to jazz up agriculture’s image.

Reuters

UN: Invest in farming to tackle youth migration

Guardian

Marijuana legalization hurts poor nations

As Canada becomes the first of many industrial nations to fully legalize marijuana, countries like Morocco and Jamaica, where the crop has traditionally been grown, risk losing new legal markets worth billions of dollars.

CNN

EU threatens to de-industrialize Myanmar

Punitive removal of nation’s GSP trade privileges over alleged rights abuses would be significant blow to Myanmar’s already faltering economy, devastating its fledgling but crucial export-geared garment sector.

Asia Times Online

Photo of the Day

Two children play outside of their dwellings within an informal settlement that popped up in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by EC/ECHO/Pierre Prakash) Photo used under CC BY

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