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A construction worker in India. Villagers take loans for major expenses, which in most cases are related to health care or their daughters’ marriages. Unscrupulous employers dupe them into working long hours, knowing they have debts to repay. (Photo by ILO in Asia and the Pacific) Photo used under CC BY

In India, weddings push dads into bonded labor

In India, which is home to 8 million of a global estimated total of 40 million slaves, many poor families take out loans to cover marriages and then fall into modern slavery while trying to repay the money.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Criminal gangs ‘abuse’ UK anti-slavery law to recruit child drug mules

Reuters

Sexual abuse of boys often overlooked by laws

Sexual abuse of boys is “barely addressed” by the laws in many countries, according to a global study that warns of a lack of support for young male survivors.

Guardian

Venezuela kids left behind as parents flee for work

Some 3 million Venezuelans have migrated in three years, putting a growing strain on the country’s children as more parents are forced into the heart-wrenching decision to leave.

Reuters

LGBT arrests, torture, deaths in Chechnya

A new wave of persecutions against the LGBT community in Chechnya began in late December 2018, leading to the deaths of two people and the incarceration of dozens of others, the Russian LGBT Network reports.

euronews

Zimbabwe urged to restore internet access

Rights groups are urging the Zimbabwean government to restore internet and social media services blocked during a nationwide protest against a steep fuel price increase that turned violent.

Independent Online

Pollution, anti-vax on WHO health threats list

Air pollution, obesity and vaccine hesitancy are three of the global health threats the World Health Organization has pledged to make a priority in 2019.

Telegraph.co.uk

Kabul’s air pollution kills more people than war

Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

UN delivers food for 9.5M Yemeni, shy of target

The UN food agency delivered emergency food and vouchers for over 9.5 million people in Yemen in December, just shy of its 10 million monthly target in the famine-threatened country, a spokesman has said.

Reuters

Malay PM wants equal distribution of wealth

Malaysia’s wealth must be distributed equally among all races, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has said, while adding that more work needs to be done in terms of racial unity.

Channel NewsAsia

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Murder-ridden Brazil now has relaxed gun laws

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro signed a temporary decree making it easier for Brazilians to buy guns, delivering on a campaign promise to overturn strict regulations in a country suffering from a record wave of murders.

Reuters

US and Brazil top the list of nations with the most gun deaths

Science News

Global tensions hampering climate change fight

The world is facing the increased risk of political confrontations between major powers, which is hindering solutions to challenges like climate change and cyberattacks, a new report by the World Economic Forum said.

CNBC

Global Risks Report sees cross-country cooperation in decline

Deutsche Welle

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

China germinates first plants to grow on moon

Cotton seeds carried to the moon by a Chinese probe have sprouted, marking what could be the first plant to ever grow there, according to Chinese government images.

CNN

5 things China is doing on the far side of the moon

Inkstone

Skin patch now as a long-term contraceptive?

Researchers have devised a new technology that may soon enable women to “self-administer long-acting contraceptives” in a matter of seconds.

Medical News Today

GLOBAL HEALTH

India is not yet leprosy-free, investigation finds

Almost 15 years after India was declared a leprosy-free country, the Leprosy Case Detection Campaign, conducted in 2018, discovered several new cases of the disease across the country.

News18

Leprosy is making a comeback in India, but the government wants to deny It

The Wire

Ancient Enemy: Leprosy in India

Al Jazeera

Lowered birth rate won’t sustain US population

Americans are having fewer and fewer babies, a new government report finds, with experts citing factors like changing economics and fewer teen pregnancies. In fact, we now aren’t making enough babies to replace ourselves.

NBCNews.com

FDA approves life-saving device for premature babies

Healio

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Klaus Dingwerth):

Climate change and climate denial: Two realities we need to confront

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Column (Robin diAngelo):

White people assume niceness is the answer to racial inequality. It’s not

Guardian

Column (Christine Stabell Benn):

Vaccines do not just protect against diseases. They do much more

The Independent

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GOOD NEWS

Homeless man fishes star athlete out of snow

Kansas City Chiefs player Jeff Allen was driving to work ahead of Saturday’s football playoff game when his car got stuck in the snow. Thanks to the kindness of a man named Dave, Allen was soon on his way to work.

CBSSports

Baby gets first hearing aids, giggles uncontrollably

CBS News

Homeless man is now happiest bus driver

Patrick Lawson had hit rock bottom. After suffering abuse during his childhood years, and serving jail time in his adulthood, Lawson received treatment for his drug addiction and was determined to get a job in London.

CBS News

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Microcredit is an important tool for the poor

Studies have shown it hasn’t really lifted people out of poverty. But it’s still made a difference in the lives of the poor.

Vox

Syrians help Lebanon with relief aid

Syrians help with aid distributions for vulnerable refugee living in camps across Bekaa Valley as more rains hit region.

Al Jazeera

ENVIRONMENT

The worst climate change reality is here

Green energy kept getting cheaper, and an electric car became America’s best-selling luxury vehicle. But the amount of heat-trapping gas entering the atmosphere got suddenly and shockingly worse.

The Atlantic

Our oceans are becoming lukewarm bathtubs

Esquire

Indonesia is too slow on palm replanting

An ambitious scheme to replant a fifth of the land under palm oil in Indonesia is running far behind schedule, marking a blow to efforts by the world’s top producer to lift yields and fend off attacks on the sustainability of the crop.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

BUSINESS AND TRADE

Despite global poverty, the rich get richer

More than 400,000 new dollar millionaires were created last year as the fortunes of the already-well off ticked over into six-zeros despite the decline in global stock markets.

Guardian

Powerful Tunisia labor union hits the streets

Tunisia‘s government and its powerful workers’ union have failed to reach a deal to raise the wages for about 670,000 civil servants, officials said, making a nationwide strike this week likely.

Al Jazeera

Photo of the Day

Muhanad, aged 11, from Syria, in school in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, close to the border with Syria. (Photo by Russell Watkins/Department for International Development) Photo used under CC BY

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