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A former child soldier, one of hundreds released from South Sudan in February 2018. UN funds for reintegrating children halved over the past seven years while needs doubled, and aid workers cannot cope with a sudden mass release. (Photo by UNMISS / Isaac Billy) Photo used under CC BY

Child soldiers still trapped in S. Sudan after war

Thousands of child soldiers dragged into South Sudan’s civil war are unlikely to be freed soon because aid agencies lack the funds to look after them. UN funds for reintegrating children had halved over the past seven years.

Reuters

Child soldiers of South Sudan

Al Jazeera

Uighur crackdown doubles security spending

Spending on prisons and security-related construction in the western Chinese province of Xinjiang doubled between 2016 and 2017, undermining China’s denial of the existence of mass internment camps.

CNN

China faces grilling over Uighur camps

Free Malaysia Today

Ebola-fighting docs live in fear of attack in DRC

DRC is facing its 10th Ebola outbreak, but this epidemic is the country’s first in an area where fighting is ongoing. Active shooting is common, and any aid worker can be in imminent danger.

Guardian

In Israel, African migrants face hunger, trauma

For 36,000 African migrants that remain in Israel today, life has got tougher since a 2017 law directed employers to deduct 20 percent from the wages of workers with temporary visas who entered Israel illegally from Egypt.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Central American migrants from first caravan arrive in Mexico City

Mexico News Daily

Cameroon’s English speakers avoid bullets

The death of an American in the conflict in Anglophone Cameroon casts a renewed spotlight on the regions, where civilians who have fled the war between separatists and soldiers live in deplorable conditions.

Deutsche Welle

ISIS dumped at least 6K bodies in mass graves

Investigators have found 202 mass graves in Iraq, according to a new report by the United Nations. The agency says at least 6,000 people were buried at the sites — and possibly more than 12,000.

NPR

HUMAN RIGHTS

Indian widows unite, strive to defy poverty

Vrindavan in India is home to more than 10,000 widows who have either been disowned by their families or who are simply alone. Widows remain one of the most stigmatized, neglected and marginalized groups.

SBS

Survivor of migrant massacre joins caravan

Billy Martinez was abducted, and watched as fellow migrants were murdered one by one back in 2010. He now makes the trek again, hoping to find safety in numbers.

Al Jazeera

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Madagascans lack faith ahead of elections

Madagascans head to the polls to elect a new president. In one of the world’s poorest countries, campaign expenditure rather than policy is set to decide the outcome.

Deutsche Welle

Michigan’s water crises may influence midterm voters

Vice

Uganda welcomes refugees on doorstep

Uganda has a very different approach in this era of rising xenophobia. Refugees are allotted some land, allowing for a little farming and self-sufficiency. Refugees live in settlements, not camps — with no barbed wire, and no guards.

SBS

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Facebook used to incite violence in Myanmar

Facebook agrees with a report that found it had failed to prevent its platform being used to “incite offline violence” in Myanmar. The report said the platform had enabled the proliferation of human rights abuse.

BBC

Nigeria using tech to tackle corruption

Emerging civil society groups, backed by international donors, try to increase government’s transparency with tech solutions.

Al Jazeera

GLOBAL HEALTH

Traffic deaths continue to get little attention

Every year, 1.3 million people die on roads around the world, the conference heard. Crashes are the leading cause of death for young people between the ages of five and 29, and the numbers continue to rise.

Ottawa Citizen

Indonesian startup uses road safety to drive women’s empowerment

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Global skin cancer deaths rising for men

Men are dying at a higher rate than women from melanoma. The largest risk factor for melanoma is overexposure to ultraviolet radiation, from sun exposure or using sunbeds.

CNN

Columns And Op-Ed

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This minimum wage controversy reminds us of how poor Nigerians have become

Pulse

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Billionaires squirm over those wanting a living wage

Vice

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Momentum for prison education

Inside Higher Ed

Column (Jonathan Gornall):

Climate change will make life in the Gulf impossible

Asia Times Online

Column (James Binnall):

Felons barred from jury duty: An unjustified punishment

The Conversation

Column (Mark Hetfield):

If you‘re not combating hate speech, you’re accepting it

CNN

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Sex work doesn’t cause human trafficking—borders do

The Baffler

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GOOD NEWS

Kenyan school fights for rhino’s survival

At a little known primary school in Kenya’s capital, pupils have taken it upon themselves to become ambassadors for the endangered rhino. China lifted a rhino horn ban, which could give poachers room to hunt.

Deutsche Welle

UK prisoners maintain music record label

For the 92,500 residents of the UK’s overcrowded and understaffed jails, violence provides an all-too-present backing track. To change that, a former music industry executive launched the UK’s first ever prison music label.

Positive News

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Gates pulls funding from Saudi-backed charity

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is cutting ties with a charity chaired by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, taking a step back from Saudi Arabia following the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

TIME

Wellcome and Gates back plan to make all papers open access on publication

Nature

UK accused of ditching kids in deadly nations

An international charity has accused Britain of abandoning children in the world’s most dangerous countries to their fate, with minimal aid spent on their protection.

Guardian

ENVIRONMENT

Global cooperation is healing ozone layer

The Northern Hemisphere could be fully fixed by the 2030s and Antarctica by the 2060s. A new UN report says it’s an example of what global agreements can achieve.

BBC

UN urges to put a stop to biodiversity loss

The world must thrash out a new deal for nature within two years or humanity could be the first species to document its own extinction.

Guardian

ECONOMY AND TRADE

Public UK workers are forced to use food bank

New research based on the UK’s latest annual survey of hours and earnings by the Living Wage Foundation reveals that 340,000 directly employed council staff are paid less than the living wage.

Guardian

EU extends economic sanctions on Venezuela

The measures are ‘intended to bring political stability to country’ that has seen almost two million flee since 2015. The extension is based on human rights violations and undermining of democracy and the rule of law.

Al Jazeera

China’s Xi promises lower tariffs, more imports

CNBC

Photo of the Day

This child looks on as he receives his dose of the oral polio vaccine in the North West region of Cameroon. (Photo by Louie Rosencrans/CDC) Photo used under CC BY

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