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A novice monk marches in a parade. As many as 300,000 children live in monasteries in Myanmar, according to some estimates by child safety organizations. There, the unlucky ones can find themselves under the close supervision of unscrupulous individuals who have taken monastic vows but have no training in, or experience of, caring for children and whose personal or criminal histories may be unknown. (Photo by Guillén Pérez) Photo used under CC BY

Clerical privilege in Myanmar putting kids at risk of abuse

In Myanmar, there are fears that some clerics are preying on the thousands of children receiving free or low-cost education at monastic schools, while sheltering under the almost blanket immunity that monks enjoy.

TIME

S. African lawmakers open way for land reform

South African lawmakers have agreed to amend the law, making way for land expropriation without compensation. Most of the land is still in the hands of the white minority, traditional leaders and South Africa’s elite.

Deutsche Welle

Nigeria: Misery for students as university lecturers strike

Al Jazeera

Rohingya oppose move to tiny, isolated island

Rohingya refugees may be banished to a remote island of silt in the middle of the Bay of Bengal — about three hours off of mainland Bangledesh. Officials plan to relocate many of the 1 million refugees from Bangladesh to this tiny island as soon as next year.

PRI

Niger adopts law to protect displaced people

Niger has adopted Africa’s first national law for the protection and assistance of people fleeing violence, floods and droughts, the government and United Nations have said.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

UK, US not paying fair share toward climate

Rich countries are not pulling their weight in the fight against climate change, and must provide emergency finance to support a global green transition.

The Independent

Study says migrants no threat to public health

The world’s immigrant population doesn’t pose any notable risk to public health and contributes to many of the health services in countries they migrate to, according to a study.

Huffington Post

Migrants risk death at sea to reach Britain

CNN

HUMAN RIGHTS

India plans to fight child labor in mica mines

A government survey will reveal for the first time the extent of child labor in deadly mica mines in eastern India. Campaigners plan to use these results to pressure companies to end the practice in their supply chains.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Child marriage costs nations billions in earnings

According to a new World Bank report, estimates for 12 countries suggest about $63 billion is lost because child brides complete fewer years of formal education than their peers who marry later.

Times Live

UN: Nigeria ranks 11th highest in child marriage

The Punch

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Australia moves to curb ‘orphanage tourism’

Australia has criminalized the act of falsely inducing children into orphanages as a form of slavery, in what is believed to be the first move of its kind in the world.

Daily Mail

Australians no longer trust their democracy, survey finds

Guardian

Cuba modifies its private sector regulations

Cuba’s government has modified a series of rules unpopular with the country’s private sector, including lifting restrictions on business permits. The controls were put in to prevent tax evasion, abuses and accumulation of wealth.

Seattle Times

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Machine learning could help conserve plants

A new approach uses data analytics and machine learning to predict the conservation status of more than 150,000 plants worldwide. Results suggest that more than 15,000 species likely qualify as vulnerable.

ScienceDaily

Honeybee ‘royal jelly’: a cure for Alzheimer’s?

Researchers say similar protein to royalactin produced by honeybees, in humans, builds up “self-renewal” stem cells. Armed with new findings, scientists are exploring potential new treatments for neurodegenerative diseases.

Guardian

GLOBAL HEALTH

India’s polluted air claimed 1.24M lives last year

India’s toxic air claimed 1.24 million lives in 2017, or 12.5 percent of total deaths recorded that year, according to a study published in Lancet Planetary Health. More than half of the dead were under 70.

CBC News

Air pollution significantly increases risk of miscarriages, study finds

Times Now

Infections in kids may raise mental illness risk

A new study published by Dutch researchers shows that a wide variety of infections, even common ones like bronchitis, are linked to a higher risk of many mental illnesses in children and adolescents.

npr.org

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Mark Lowcock):

It’s not too late to save Yemen from apocalypse

CNN

Column (Ashley Andreou and Alexander Urry):

American women’s right to choose is in danger

Al Jazeera

Column (Bhagyashri Dengle and Björn Andersson):

Ending child marriage is possible: Invest in what’s working

Thomson Reuters Foundation

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GOOD NEWS

Guatemalan weavers demand property rights

Beautiful handwoven Mayan textile designs are often copied by foreign designers and mass produced. It amounts to intellectual property theft, say the Mayan women who are fighting back.

Positive News

Walking, talking and separated: Bangladesh conjoined twins go home

CTV

Homeless man hands found cash to food bank

A homeless man is being praised after he handed in $17,000 he found inside a bag outside a food bank in the U.S. state of Washington. He found the cash inside a brown bag while grabbing bread outside.

The Independent

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

EU announces new aid for African Sahel

The European Union and France have announced 1.3 billion euros (US$1.5 billion) of development aimed at combating armed groups in African Sahel countries, which are struggling with armed groups and lawlessness.

Al Jazeera

US green-card holders are avoiding state aid

The “public charge” rule has not gone into effect, but advocates say immigrants are not visiting health care clinics.

NBCNews.com

ENVIRONMENT

Climate change spurs heatwave likelihood

Human-induced climate change has made the United Kingdom‘s record-breaking 2018 summer heatwave around 30 times more likely than under normal conditions, the country’s meteorological body has said.

CNN

Brazil’s president-elect threatens Amazon rainforest

Al Jazeera

New Zealand military braces for climate change

The New Zealand Defense Force identified climate change as one of its biggest security challenges recently, warning that responding to global warming will stretch its resources.

Channel NewsAsia

Africa’s fastest-growing cities are the most vulnerable to climate change globally

Quartz

ECONOMY AND TRADE

Polish coal miners adjust as mines close

Poland has pledged to keep burning coal, flying in the face of climate change science. Activists say the country needs to phase out coal for the climate and the economy, while protecting miners’ livelihoods.

Deutsche Welle

Cuba scraps new private sector restrictions

The government of Cuba has announced it will scrap some tough new restrictions on the private sector, which had caused concern among entrepreneurs.

Al Jazeera

Photo of the Day

Nepalese women carry Lokta bark paper bundles on a four-hour hike down a mountain to Chainpur, where it is loaded on buses for a 25-hour journey to Kathmandu markets. (Photo by ason Houston for USAID) Photo used under CC BY

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