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Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through central Paris over the weekend calling on the French government and the international community to do more to tackle climate change. (Photo by Jeanne Menjoulet) Photo used under CC BY

Scientists urge UN nations to act on climate change

Scientists have laid down the gauntlet for political leaders as the UN climate summit in Katowice, Poland, wrestles with the challenge of cutting emissions without sparking social tensions like those seen recently in France.

Guardian

Climate change a driver of the migrant caravan

CNN

Climate change is a human rights issue

Grist

Harassment rampant in Australian workplaces

Two in three Australian women have been sexually harassed at work, with the majority of cases unreported, according to a survey that highlighted challenges activists said prevent women from advancing in their careers.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Mexico to slow migration by assisting C. America

The Mexican government has announced plans to spend $30 billion over the next five years on Central American development, an initiative designed to slow migration from some of the hemisphere’s poorest and most violent countries through Mexico.

USA TODAY

UN flags mass return of Syrian refugees

Up to 250,000 Syrian refugees could return to their devastated homeland in 2019, while many others face problems with documentation and property that the Damascus government must help resolve, the UN refugee agency says.

The Australian

Child among those executed in S. Sudan

A child is among the seven people known to have been executed in South Sudan so far this year in what Amnesty International has called an “execution spree.”

Voice

S. Sudan sexual violence victims relate ordeals

africanews

Chinese rubber firm puts indigenous at risk

A Chinese state-owned company is behind rubber plantations that Cameroon villagers say threaten their livelihoods.

Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

Chinese doll factory accused of underpaying

An investigation by human rights groups found staff at a toy factory in Heyuan, China, that makes Disney and Fisher-Price dolls were working illegal overtime, receiving no holiday or sick pay, and earned less than $1.30 per hour.

South China Morning Post

Cuba softens law limiting artistic expression

Cuba is softening the impact of a heavily criticized new law that would have given government inspectors power to shut down any exhibition or performance deemed to violate the country’s socialist revolutionary values.

ABC News

Misgendering could soon be illegal in Tasmania

A landmark legal reform in Tasmania could ban the intentionally offensive misgendering of trans or non-binary people. The bill will also make it possible for citizens to change their gender on birth certificates from the age of 16.

standard.co.uk

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Macron promises wage raise, tax concessions

France’s President Emmanuel Macron has promised a minimum wage raise of $113 per month from 2019, and tax concessions in response to weeks of violent protests.

BBC

Iran: US sanctions could increase drug flow

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani warned that the United States’ reimposed sanctions on Iran will not help his country in fighting drug trafficking and will open doors for illegal drugs into western countries, including the U.S.

CNN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Blockchain helps refugees get financial access

The startup company Gravity Earth has announced a dramatic mission: using blockchain technology to connect refugees to financial resources that normally are not accessible for effectively stateless people.

Nasdaq

Is wasp venom the next-generation antibiotic?

In the wake of the antibiotic resistance crisis, MIT scientists have developed a new antibiotic based on a peptide in the venom of a South American wasp, Polybia paulista. Used in mice, this killed bacteria without harming its cells.

ScienceAlert

GLOBAL HEALTH

Refusal to vaccinate pregnant women is risky

Failure to vaccinate pregnant women during deadly infectious disease outbreaks is putting them and their unborn children at risk, a new report has warned.

Telegraph.co.uk

UK homeopathy centers may lose charity status

The UK’s Charities Commission has overhauled its rules for organizations promoting forms of alternative medicine, homeopathy, asking them to provide scientific evidence for medical claims or lose their charitable status.

The Independent

Complementary and alternative medicine: France’s parallel health care system

France24

40 percent of Americans believe alternative treatments can cure cancer. They can’t

Salon

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Francesco Rocca):

The world’s approach to migration is painfully broken. The Global Compact can fix it

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Column (Robin d’Angelo):

What lies beneath the surface of France’s Generation Identity?

Al Jazeera

Column (Daniel Webb):

Australia is finally having a moral awakening on refugee policy

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

Syrian refugees set to become Canadians

Three years ago, the first plane filled with fleeing Syrian refugees touched down in Canada. Today, those arrivals mark a milestone: they’ve met the residency requirement for Canadian citizenship.

CBC News

Rescue dog helps boy with ADHD triumph

A 6-year-old boy from Michigan, and his new service dog are helping each other live a full life. The young boy was diagnosed with ADHD and Sensory Processing Disorder; the dog was rescued from a fighting ring.

CBS News

Retired grandpas hold and comfort sick babies all day

YouTube

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Google urged to stop censored search engine

Google must abandon development of a censored search engine for China, dozens of NGOs have demanded, warning that personal data wouldn’t be safe from Beijing authorities.

Phys.org

UK aid program may be contributing to torture

British MPs have expressed concern over the government’s global security program, saying a lack of transparency lends weight to allegations that taxpayers are unwittingly complicit in human rights abuses.

Guardian

ENVIRONMENT

Illegal gold mines are destroying Amazon

An increase in small-scale gold mining has taken a toll on the Amazon, increasing deforestation and polluting waterways, according to a new report. Mining in protected indigenous areas has increased exponentially.

Deutsche Welle

Policies put world on track for 3.3C warming

Reuters

NASA: Once-stable East Antarctica is melting

NASA has detected significant melting in a swath of glaciers in East Antarctica. The region has long been considered stable and unaffected by some of the more dramatic changes occurring elsewhere on the continent.

BBC

The poor shown to be vulnerable to green taxes

BBC

ECONOMY AND TRADE

Ross garment workers protest low wages

About 65 garment workers in Los Angeles and their allies came to the Ross headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, to protest what they allege are sweatshop conditions in local factories that produce clothing for the retail chain.

San Francisco Chronicle

There’s a great anti-poverty bill in the US Senate. Why haven’t we heard more about it?

Vox

Cambodia sees drop in factory child labor

While the United Nations says child labor has fallen sharply in Cambodia’s garment factories, many informal subcontractors using children are escaping scrutiny.

Reuters

Photo of the Day

Ethiopian schoolgirls are a part of the Finote Hiwot program, which is helping adolescent girls avoid child marriage in Ethiopia. (Photo by Jessica Lea/Department for International Development) Photo used under CC BY

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