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Children smile for a photographer in Mae La Refugee Camp in Thailand. The camp is home to ethnic minorities who fled fighting between the military and ethnic armed groups in Myanmar. (Photo by Mikhail Esteves) Photo used under CC BY

97K Myanmar refugees live in limbo in Thai camps

There are 97,439 refugees from Myanmar in the camps in Thailand – half of them children. They live in limbo: They aren’t allowed to work and can only leave camp for specified reasons.

SBS News

Low-income US women face period poverty

A startling number of low-income women in America cannot afford period products — so they’re using rags, paper towels or even diapers in order not to bleed through their clothing every month.

Huffington Post

In Nepal, tradition is killing women

Foreign Policy

African nations demand recount in DRC election

A powerful regional body of African states has called for a recount in the contested presidential election in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Instead of marking a turning point for the troubled country, the election is deepening political crisis.

Guardian

Congo poll leaves miners in uncertainty

Reuters

LGBT refugees in Kenya accuse UN of failing

LGBT refugees in Kenya have accused the UN of failing to provide adequate shelter and protection after they were forced to flee attacks at a refugee camp and relocated to an abandoned school.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Syrian refugees endure flooding, snowfall

Syrian refugees in Lebanon are enduring yet another heavy storm, bringing more rains and snowfall to the camps in the country’s eastern and northern regions.

Al Jazeera

Sahara desert: The most dangerous migrant journey of all?

BBC

Australians do not want any more migrants: ANU poll

Sydney Morning Herald

HUMAN RIGHTS

World Food Program cuts aid for Palestinians

The World Food Program has suspended or reduced aid for some of its Palestinian beneficiaries in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip due to funding shortages.

Al Jazeera

Starving Yemenis eating tree leaves to survive

Scroll.in

Women want more say in male-dominated faiths

Feminist scholars are challenging the rightfulness of long-standing patriarchal traditions in religion, calling into question translations of religious texts used to justify a male-dominated hierarchy.

Associated Press

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Britain pledges law to combat toxic air pollution

Britain pledged to fight air pollution and introduce new legislation this year. The new strategy commits Britain to halving the number of people who live in areas breaching WHO guidelines on pollution.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Trump could divert disaster money to fund wall

Under the proposal, Trump could dip into money set aside to fund civil works projects all over the country, including storm-damaged areas of Puerto Rico.

NBCNews.com

Trump threatens Turkey with economic devastation

BBC

Ethiopia’s conflicts destabilize reform

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has introduced dramatic reforms since assuming power more than nine months ago. But as ethnic clashes flare, the changes may not be enough to stabilize the nation.

Deutsche Welle

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Bioengineers are using 3D printers to make more durable hip and knee joints, prosthetic limbs and, recently, to produce living tissue attached to a scaffold of printed material.

Wired

Can we now harness electricity from bacteria?

A new technique developed by MIT engineers makes sorting and identifying electricity-producing bacteria more easily than ever before, which may make them more readily available for us in technological applications.

Science Alert

GLOBAL HEALTH

Zimbabwe’s health system is collapsing

A doctors’ strike in Zimbabwe has crippled a health system that was already in neglect. Doctors describe grim conditions: Bare-handed surgeries, plastic bread bags used to collect patients’ urine and broken-down machines.

News24

Chinese children given expired polio vaccines

At least 145 children were administered expired polio vaccines in eastern China, state media reported, despite the government promising to prevent such lapses in the industry following a major scandal last year.

Channel NewsAsia

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GOOD NEWS

Controllers send pizza to unpaid colleagues

Canadian Air Traffic Control Association units ordered pizzas for all of their colleagues at the control center on Long Island, who have been working without pay since the partial U.S. government shutdown began on Dec. 22.

CBC News

Fleeing Saudi teen lands safely in Toronto

A Saudi teen was granted asylum in Canada after fleeing from her allegedly abusive family and has arrived in Canada. Her flight landed in Toronto a day after Canada accepted Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun as a refugee.

CBC News

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

New water pumps in Jordan offer solutions

Outside of Jordan’s capital, Amman, mains water is only supplied once a week. Now the German Development Agency is installing new pumps, which will help the environment too.

Deutsche Welle

South Africa: “No-fee” schools turn away children who can’t pay

GroundUp

Russia inspects human rights NGO

Russia declared Memorial International a “foreign agent” in 2016. The organization is a patchwork of groups that work in the fields of philanthropy, human rights advocacy and historical research.

Moscow Times

In epidemics, outbreak culture is as toxic as disease

Nonprofit Quarterly

ENVIRONMENT

Desalination makes more waste than thought

As freshwater has become scarcer around the world, countries that can afford it have turned to desalination. But a study finds that the average desalination plant actually produced 1.5 times more brine than desalinated water.

National Geographic

Growth of urban farming systems in Nigeria

Deutsche Welle

Wild tea could help save Thailand’s forests

Miang tea trees, the forerunner of plantation tea, grow wild in Thailand‘s forests. Now, eco-friendly businesses are using the tree’s leaves to strive for the perfect cup of tea and foster biodiversity at the same time.

Deutsche Welle

BUSINESS AND TRADE

10% of top caste owns 60% of India’s wealth

Although India’s upper-caste households earned nearly 47 percent more than the national average annual income, the top 10 percent within these castes owned 60 percent of the wealth within the group in 2012.

Business Standard

Bangladesh garment protests win higher pay

Garment manufacturers in Bangladesh will raise workers’ pay, urging people to return to work after a week of violent demonstrations.

CNBC

Photo of the Day

These children in Chautara, Nepal, survived the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck the region on April 25, 2015. (Photo by Jessica Lea/DFID) Photo used under CC BY

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