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A Chao Lay boy looking out to sea. The Chao Lay, or People of the Sea, have lived on the shores of Thailand and Myanmar for generations, fishing and foraging. The Chao Lay in Phuket, Thailand, are fighting for the right to continue their way of life. (Photo by Indigenous Peoples Human Rights Defenders Network) Photo used under CC BY

Thai tourism, conservation threaten People of the Sea

Marine conservation efforts limit the traditional fishing grounds of the Chao Lay community, and a tourism boom pits them against developers keen on the patch of land that their boats, homes and shrines sit on.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

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

Migrant fishermen claim they’re treated as slaves

Irish Times

Yemen, Houthi rebels seeking to forge peace

For the first time in more than two years the Yemeni government and Houthi rebels are holding peace talks. Half of Yemen’s population is facing starvation as a result of the civil war.

NPR

Survivors of Houthi rebel prisons tell of torture

Sky News

South Sudan is gripped by starvation

Over four million people are facing severe food insecurity. Nearly 2 million people have fled the country. The war has left South Sudan in a state of crisis and despair.

Deutsche Welle

Child on death row in South Sudan

CNN

Jamaica no longer a homophobic country

A country where violence against the LGBT community was once rife is increasingly adopting a more liberal outlook.

Guardian

Mediterranean migrant 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

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

Narcissists less likely to support democracy

Narcissists are more likely to not support democracies and believe that countries would be better run by strong leaders or the military, a study has found.

Economic Times

Hereditary clan consolidates power again in Iraq

The Barzani clan, which has dominated Iraqi Kurdish political life for the past century, consolidates power again, a reminder that authorities haven’t offered people a democratic alternative to the regional status quo.

Asia Times Online

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

Human migration is a public health issue

Most migrants have a mortality advantage or greater life expectancy than people in their host countries, according to the new research.

CNN

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

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

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

World’s poor paying for climate disasters

The world’s poor are being encouraged to take out insurance against climate-related disasters. But as the logic of some schemes unravels, those who profited least from fossil fuels are left paying for their damage.

Deutsche Welle

ECONOMY AND TRADE

Nepal’s kids at risk from predatory aid workers

Investigations raise fears that Nepal has become a target for pedophiles acting under the cover of aid work. A rising number of foreigners have been arrested for allegedly sexually abusing children in recent months.

Al Jazeera

African nations facing yet another debt crisis

Many African nations are having a serious debt problem, according to studies by several NGOs. To a large extent, they’re in the hands of creditors, with private investors raking in most of the interest payments.

Deutsche Welle

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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