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As World Refugee Day nears, Sub-Saharan Africa continues to house worlds most neglected displacement crises, with many nations at the brink of no return. (Photo by Mark Knobil) Photo used under CC BY

World Refugee Day nears amid new diseases, wars

The United Nations’ refugee agency is marking this year’s World Refugee Day with the message that “every action counts”, as it faces the challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic and record numbers of people forced from their homes by war and extreme weather.

Reuters

Forcibly displaced now account for 1% of humanity

Guardian

Last batch of aid lands in Yemen amid UN funding cuts

Associated Press

World’s 80M refuges yearn for signs of hope

This year, the UNHCR’s annual report said there are currently 80 million people around the world who have been forcefully displaced from their countries. The memories of their homes may fade, but hope still remains.

CBS News

Ethiopian migrants smuggled through Horn of Africa

Al Jazeera

UN to report on racism after worldwide protests

The U.N.’s top human rights body agreed unanimously to commission report on systemic racism and discrimination against black people while stopping short of ordering a more intensive investigation singling out the United States after the death of George Floyd.

Associated Press

What the US can learn from countries where police remains unarmed

TIME

What is Juneteenth – and should it be a federal holiday in the US?

Guardian

Beijing claims latest virus outbreak averted

China’s chief epidemiologist claimed that Beijing’s recent COVID-19 outbreak has been brought under control, after over 150 people tested positive for the virus in connection to the market within the past week.

Forbes

Cure-all virus vaccine is unlikely, experts warn

Data on close cousins of the COVID-19 virus, including seasonal coronaviruses that cause the common cold, suggests the COVID-19 vaccine may not offer lifelong protection.

ABC News

Pandemic surveillance could be here to stay

Global mass surveillance measures introduced amid the pandemic have become entrenched. Governments have been accused of denting civil rights with the widespread use of new technologies, digital rights experts have said.

Guardian

HUMAN RIGHTS

Virus fuels racism against India’s minorities

Targeted for their East Asian looks, people from Northeast India suffer discrimination and harassment as a result of the pandemic. Many have been been spat at, called “coronavirus” and told to go back to China.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Plight of refugees compounded by pandemic

Deutsche Welle

S. Africa fights gender violence pandemic

South Africa has the continent’s highest confirmed COVID-19 cases. Now it has another pandemic on its hands: femicide. The country faces violent abuse against its female residents.

CNN

Colombia violence: Killings continue during lockdown

Al Jazeera

Bangladesh garment makers struggle to survive

Clothing factory workers in Bangladesh were hit twice by COVID-19, once when their factories closed, and again when global retailers cancelled orders.

Guardian

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

LGBT refugees find a safe haven in Kenya

Members of the LGBT community in East Africa face discrimination that has forced many to flee their home countries for Kenya, which has become a safe haven for refugees.

ABC News

Ethiopia to fill disputed dam, deal or no deal

It’s a clash over water usage that Egypt calls an existential threat and Ethiopia calls a lifeline for millions. Ethiopia sees the arrival of the rainy season as an ideal time to begin filling the dam’s reservoir next month.

Associated Press

Iraq’s traditional crafts at risk of vanishing

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

AI risks disappearance of war-crime evidence

AI-enabled tools risk confusing human rights and historical documentation with problematic material like terrorist content - particularly in war-torn countries lke Syria and Yemen, digital rights activists warned.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Snapchat removes Juneteenth photo filter

Snapchat took down a “Juneteenth”-themed filter and apologized to users for the lens. The filter used Pan-African flag as a backdrop and prompted users to smile, which caused chains to appear behind them and then break.

Reuters

GLOBAL HEALTH

Pandemic grips Argentina’s poor “villas”

The spread of the virus in the so-called “villas” underscores how millions of often informal workers in Latin American cities from Lima to Sao Paulo are struggling to stick to isolation measures and stay financially afloat.

Al Jazeera

Virus ravages vulnerable Latino communities

The virus has amplified inequalities many Latinos endure, including jobs that expose them to others, tight living conditions, lack of health insurance, and mistrust of the medical system.

Associated Press

COVID-19 spreads in cramped Rohingya refugee camps

Al Jazeera

“Deadly masks” claims debunked

Claims that wearing a mask leads to “re-breathing your exhaled CO2” have been surfacing online. An anti-disinformation team debunked misleading claims about the health risks of face masks through thorough research.

BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Katie Sgarro):

This World Refugee Day we need to save LGBTQ asylum

The Hill

Column (Cheikh Mboup):

To fight workplace racism, we need to stop treating certain topics as “taboo”

CNN

Column (Timothy Ash):

The US and China are entering a new cold war. Where does that leave the rest of us?

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

S. African choir adapts to virus through music

The dusty streets of rural South Africa are a far cry from the bright lights of “America‘s Got Talent,” but that’s where the members of the Ndlovu Youth Choir find themselves coping with the coronavirus pandemic.

ABC News

Son repeats father’s historic deep ocean dive

Kelly Walsh, son of the great ocean explorer Don Walsh, has just descended to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, almost 11km down in the Pacific. He made the dive 60 years after his father created history in doing so.

BBC

83-year-old man wins fight against COVID-19

After 75 days battling COVID-19, Lorenzo Rodriguez tested negative and was discharged from the Homestead, Florida, hospital as medical staff gathered for a round of applause and cheers.

Good Morning America

NONPROFIT & PHILANTHROPY

9-year-old helps black-owned businesses

A group of friends with big dreams and even bigger hearts started a summer business that is helping black-owned businesses and neighborhoods in Minneapolis affected by the coronavirus pandemic and protests.

CNN

Barber offers hope in Peruvian barrios

In the midst of one of the worst recessions in the western hemisphere due to an extensive quarantine to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, the barber offers free haircuts in Lima’s working class neighborhoods.

Associated Press

ENVIRONMENT

Rare solar eclipse to cast shadow over Africa

Skywatchers along a narrow band from west Africa to the Arabian peninsula, India and southern China will witness the most dramatic “ring of fire” solar eclipse in years. The eclipse will be seen first a few minutes after sunrise.

Guardian

Panama cocoa growers protecting the jungle

Deutsche Welle

Gullah Geechee traditions at risk of being lost

The rich traditions of the Gullah Geechee are at risk of being lost, threatened by what is arguably one of the most harrowing issues the world faces today.

BBC

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

Colgate reviews its “black person toothpaste”

Colgate has announced a review of top-selling Chinese toothpaste brand Darlie, whose name translates to “black person toothpaste,” after high-profile brands announced they would reassess racial stereotyping in their products.

Forbes

Bank provides S. Africa with $1B virus loan

The New Development Bank established by the BRICS group of emerging nations has approved a $1 billion COVID-19 emergency loan to South Africa to help reduce the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic.

Reuters

Photo of the Day

Rohingya children playing at a UNICEF child friendly space, inside Batukhali refugee camp in Bangladesh. (Photo by Anna Dubuis) Photo used under CC BY

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