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Migrant workers in Thailand. Millions of migrant workers in Thailand’s construction, agriculture and livestock industries are being exploited, but the focus on the fishing sector has diverted attention away from them, researchers have said. Exploitative practices have been recorded in domestic work, sex work, construction, agriculture, livestock, hospitality, garment manufacturing and other sectors. (Photo by Solidarity Center) Photo used under CC BY

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Migrant workers in Thailand face abuse, exploitation

Migrant workers in several industries in Thailand do not get a minimum wage or overtime pay, and must contend with unsafe working and living conditions, the International Organization for Migration has said in a report.

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Bangkok Post

Refugees face asylum closure, eviction in Italy

The eviction of refugees from Italy’s second-largest centre for asylum seekers has continued for a second day amid protests from locals and opposition politicians over the way the transfers are being carried out.

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Al Jazeera

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EU steps up legal procedure against Hungary for criminalizing support for migrants

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Reuters

Research links climate to conflict, migration

A new research by International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis has for the first time established a causal link between climate, conflict and migration, something that has been widely suggested in the media but for which scientific evidence has been scarce.

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Giant sinkholes form around Tehran due to drought and excessive water pumping in Iranian capital

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The Independent

India rushes to save vanishing groundwater

Indian authorities are imposing a new fee and stricter laws to rein in groundwater use, as the world’s biggest extractor struggles to find ways to conserve the fast dwindling resource.

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Reuters

Myanmar’s aid curb impacting 50K people

New government curbs on aid activities in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State “are affecting at least 50,000 people,” the United Nations has said highlighting the growing impact of recent fighting on civilians.

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

US no more world leader in resettling refugees

For the first time in more than three decades, the U.S. is not the world leader in resettling refugees. The U.S. took in only 33,000 refugees in 2017, fewer than half of the 69,000 accepted by other countries, according to the Pew Research Center.

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Mother Jones

HUMAN RIGHTS

Education efforts in Rohingya camps ramped up

UN’s children’s agency says it is making gains in the effort to provide education for Rohingya children who fled violence in Myanmar, but much work remains to provide adequate services in the world’s largest refugee camp.

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TIME

NZ told to improve rights of LGBTQ people

For the first time, during a universal periodic review, UN member states have made specific recommendations for New Zealand to improve the human rights of LGBTQ communities.

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Radio New Zealand

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Guaido claims Venezuela interim presidency

Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself interim president, winning backing from Washington and parts of Latin America, and prompting socialist Nicolas Maduro to break relations with USA.

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Reuters

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Venezuela opposition leader declares himself interim president

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Political crisis in Venezuela: What’s going on

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Radio New Zealand

Thai king decrees first election since 2014 coup

Thailand’s king, Maha Vajiralongkorn has issued a royal decree endorsing the first general election since a 2014 military coup that toppled Yingluck Shinawatra, rewriting the constitution and muzzling dissent.

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Channel NewsAsia

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Malaysia elects new king after shock abdication

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CNN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Scientists to explore uncharted Indian Ocean

Scientists are preparing to embark on an unprecedented, years-long mission to explore the Indian Ocean and document changes taking place beneath the waves that could affect billions of people in surrounding regions.

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TIME

Green bricks made from sewage byproduct

When sewage sludge is processed at wastewater treatment plants, the leftover “biosolid” material is generally dried and set aside. However, it could now find its way into eco-friendly fired-clay building bricks.

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New Atlas

GLOBAL HEALTH

Climate change will affect number of boys born

Climate change could alter the proportion of male and female newborns, with more boys born in places where temperatures rise and fewer boys born in places with other environmental changes, scientists say.

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CNN

Ebola vaccine supplies are expected to last

In some good news related to the Ebola crisis, the World Health Organization now predicts there are adequate supplies of an experimental Ebola vaccine to control the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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STAT News

Columns And Op-Ed

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Western media and depictions of death and injury to ‘others’

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Al Jazeera

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How the right tricked people into supporting rampant inequality

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Guardian

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Raising the minimum wage would save Americans

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Huffington Post

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GOOD NEWS

Teen wins and shares big peanut butter supply

An autistic boy who eats peanut butter three times a day won a lifetime supply of peanut butter by helping his favorite brand do some marketing via Twitter. He then shared some of his stock with furloughed federal workers.

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CBS News

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Formerly conjoined twins thriving after rare, complex surgery separated their brains

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CBS News

Nestlé will say goodbye to single-use plastic

The world’s largest packaged food company is finally taking some drastic steps to reduce its plastic footprint. Nestlé will begin eliminating all plastic straws in its products this February.

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Fast Company

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Young nurse closes Cameroon blood gap

Thanks to Infiuss — the online blood bank Bime started in December 2017 — motorbikes have delivered more than 2,300 bags of blood (sourced from three existing blood banks) to patients at 23 hospitals.

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Ozy

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Rap music artists work to change probation

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Fast Company

New campaign fundraises for women with HIV

An NGO working for the welfare and medical treatment of Malaysians living with HIV, has launched a “MyLady Assistance Scheme,” an initiative to economically empower women and girls suffering from the disease.

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Free Malaysia Today

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Clowns bring laughter to the refugee Rohingya community in Bangladesh

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ENVIRONMENT

Climate stress drove Arab Spring migrant wave

Severe droughts made more likely by global warming worsened conflict in Arab Spring countries earlier this decade, which forced people to flee.

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Reuters

Arctic hot spot reaches tipping point

A rapid climate shift under way in the Barents Sea could spread to other Arctic regions, scientists warn. The Barents Sea is said to be at a tipping point, changing from an Arctic climate to an Atlantic climate as the water gets warmer affecting ecosystems.

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BBC

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Why cold weather doesn’t mean climate change is fake

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National Geographic

Endangered species left behind by shutdown

The West Coast Stranding Network, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s marine animal response team and hotline for reporting injured or stranded animals, is idled amid the shutdown.

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Mother Jones

BUSINESS AND TRADE

Kosovo’s teachers strike for pay raise

Around 500,000 pupils and students in Kosovo stayed at home as a strike by teachers demanding a 30 percent pay raise entered its second week. Doctors and miners have also taken strike action for higher wages.

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Channel NewsAsia

Indian ministers falsely tout job growth

Indian ministers facing an election in coming months launched a social media campaign trumpeting successes in creating jobs just weeks after a think tank reported 11 million jobs were lost in the country last year.

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Reuters

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A family in Kaloum, Guinea. (Photo by UNMEER/Martine Perret) Photo used under CC BY

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