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A young Venezuelan refugee in Colombia. Colombia already hosts more than a million Venezuelans, many of whom are seen begging for change or sleeping in public parks. Others walk and hitchhike the long mountain highways en route to Ecuador or Peru. (Photo by Cristal Montanez) Photo used under CC BY

Health conditions plague Venezuelan migrants

The health care situation in Colombia is worsened by the collapse of Venezuela’s health system, which has left diseases and afflictions to fester untreated for years in the now-migrant and refugee population.

Al Jazeera

Why are millions fleeing Venezuela?

Guardian

Mediterranean migrant rescue ship ends patrols

Aquarius, the last search-and-rescue ship operating in the world’s most deadly migration route, is being forced to end its work, according to the charities that run it.

NBCNews.com

China’s gender imbalance driving bride trafficking

Thousands of vulnerable women and girls are being trafficked from Myanmar to China and forced to marry and bear children, new research has found.

The Independent

Migrant fishermen face torturous life at sea

The multibillion-dollar seafood industry has come under scrutiny after investigations showed widespread slavery, human trafficking and violence on fishing boats and in onshore processing facilities.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Progress on women’s rights still lags; study

Progress on women’s rights has been far slower than expected across the world as a report shows underage marriage rates have barely come down this decade, while dozens of nations still legally prioritize men.

Guardian

Why men’s pay rises when women work

Sydney Morning Herald

Survivors of Houthi rebel prisons tell of torture

Former prisoners of rebels in Yemen have revealed the torture they suffered at the hands of their captors, including being burned with acid, beaten and hung by their wrists.

Sky News

HUMAN RIGHTS

Irish parliament passes bill to legalize abortion

The lower house of Ireland’s parliament has passed a historic legislation to make abortion legal for the first time, after members voted overwhelmingly in favor. This would legalize free access to abortion up to 12 weeks.

The Independent

Burundi asks UN human rights office to leave

The UN human rights office said Burundi’s government has asked it to leave, months after the outgoing UN rights chief called the country one of the “most prolific slaughterhouses of humans in recent times.”

Associated Press

Brazil leader to abolish human rights ministry

Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro will abolish the country’s human rights ministry, and has named a conservative evangelical pastor to run a newly created ministry to oversee women, family, human rights, and indigenous people.

Guardian

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Luxembourg announces free public transit plan

In an effort to reduce traffic congestion and the environmental impact of cars, Luxembourg has announced its plan to become the first country in the world to make all its public transportation free beginning in the summer of 2019.

Huffington Post

Duterte plans a ‘death squad’ in the Philippines

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has said he wants to counter communist rebels with their own weapon: armed death squads. But rights groups fear this will escalate an already deadly environment in the country.

Deutsche Welle

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Australian law imperils privacy, tech firms say

Facebook and other tech companies are warning about the privacy risks from a new Australian law that gives government agencies the power to demand access to encrypted messaging services like iMessage, WhatsApp.

CNN

The many faces of the digital divide

Axios

Wearable device can help prevent skin cancer

How much sun is too much? A group of scientists aim to let you know with My Skin Track UV, the world’s smallest wearable device, which can help prevent skin cancer.

geek.com

GLOBAL HEALTH

Vaccine supply low as Ebola spreads in DRC

The second-largest Ebola outbreak in history has spread to a major city in eastern Congo, as health experts worry whether the stock of an experimental vaccine will stand up to the demands of an epidemic with no end in sight.

ABC News

9 million likely are unaware they are HIV positive

About 9.4 million people are likely HIV-positive and don’t know it, according to a key finding from a new report by UNAIDS. This has also inspired the theme of World AIDS Day — “Know your HIV status.”

npr.org

Four emerging STDs that you can’t afford to ignore

CNN

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (44 European lawmakers):

A Magnitsky Act for Europe would punish human rights abusers and despots

CNN

Editorial:

A cry against contempt for women’s lives

Haaretz

Column (Luca Belli):

WhatsApp skewed Brazilian election, proving social media’s danger to democracy

The Conversation

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GOOD NEWS

Boston child helps the homeless stay warm

Seven-year-old Sophia Casini is the brains behind Sophia’s Socks for the Homeless — a yearly sock drive to help the homeless at St. Francis House in Boston stay cozy in winter.

Boston 25 News

Firefighter dressed as an elf spreads Christmas cheer in Boston

CBS News

Mother, daughter reunite after 70 years apart

For almost 70 years, Genevieve Purinton believed her daughter had died moments after she was born in 1949. But now the 88-year-old has been reunited with the 69-year-old daughter who has been alive and well.

KFDM

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

US aid cuts leave Palestinian refugees in crisis

As a top UN official in Gaza accuses Donald Trump of using aid as a political weapon, fears of a major emergency are growing.

Guardian

NGOs go extra mile at US-Mexican border

Rights groups ramp up efforts to aid migrants and refugees as they face new hurdles due to U.S. President Donald Trump’s “zero-tolerance” policy and anti-immigrant rhetoric.

Al Jazeera

NGO files sexual abuse case against South Sudan

France24

ENVIRONMENT

Africa cocoa industry fails environment pledge

The cocoa industry is failing to meet a highly publicized pledge to stop deforestation in west Africa and eliminate tainted beans from supply chains, environmental campaigners say.

Guardian

Honduras UNESCO site is at grave risk

Poverty and political violence are driving Hondurans into Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage site holding some of the region’s largest tracts of old growth rainforest.

Mongabay

Tackling climate change could save millions of lives

CNN

ECONOMY AND TRADE

Qantas airlines hopes workers can volunteer

Qantas is being accused of “wage theft” after an email to staff asking them to volunteer time at the airport during its busiest period was leaked.

Sydney Morning Herald

Wage theft leaves Zimbabwe’s workers with an impossible dilemma

Equal Times

Black homeowners fall behind on investments

New data confirms that racism is taking money out of black American homeowners’ collective pockets to a painful sum of $156 billion, keeping those striving for the American dream from reaping its benefits.

CNN

Photo of the Day

A young girl from Awassa, a coffee-growing region of southern Ethiopia, where UK aid-funded research is helping farmers to get the right price for their produce. (Photo by Pete Lewis/Department for International Development) Photo used under CC BY

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