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School girls in Sierra Leone. More than 8,500 cases of rape and sexual assault against women, girls and babies were recorded last year, according to police statistics, just over double the number recorded in 2017, prompting the government to declare a sexual assault emergency. (Photo by Geraint Hill) Photo used under CC BY

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Sierra Leone declares sexual assault emergency

Sierra Leone has declared a national emergency on rape and sexual assault after a surge in recorded cases. Each month hundreds of cases of rape and sexual assault are being reported against women, girls and babies.

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The Independent

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Indonesia sexual violence bill sparks conservative opposition

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Al Jazeera

Uncertainty driving Rohingya to drugs, violence

Rohingya men who would have been running households at home find their roles diminished, and the uncertainty is driving increasing numbers to drugs and violence.

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

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Facebook is reckoning with its role in ‘a textbook example of ethnic cleansing’

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Vox

Trafficking of girls, women rampant in Nepal

More than 23,000 women and girls were victims of trafficking in 2016, according to the annual report published by the National Human Rights Commission of Nepal. However, numbers could rise to 40,000 Nepalese victims a year, according to NGOs in the field.

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Guardian

Venezuela blocks bridge used to haul in aid

The Venezuelan government, led by embattled President Nicolas Maduro, has blocked a bridge connecting Venezuela to Colombia, a move that effectively blocks the passage of humanitarian aid.

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CNN

Past 5 years have been hottest on record

2018 was the fourth-hottest year on record, fulfilling a dreadful pattern: The past five years have been the hottest since mankind started recording global temperatures in 1880.

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ZME Science

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January’s weather extremes in pictures

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Al Jazeera

UN urges full rights for Syria’s displaced kids

A UN watchdog has urged Syria to grant full rights to its displaced children, adding that thousands had been killed, tortured or enslaved during the country’s civil war.

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Reuters

HUMAN RIGHTS

Thousands of Haitians protest corruption

Thousands of Haitians took to the streets against economic misery in the latest challenge to President Jovenel Moise amid months of protests over corruption. Demonstrators want Moise to resign.

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Myanmar villagers fleeing Rakhine violence

Scores of ethnic minority villagers have crossed from western Myanmar into Bangladesh amid fighting between the Myanmar military and ethnic Rakhine rebels, Bangladesh border guards and an activist said.

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Channel NewsAsia

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Bangladesh seals border as 160 flee fighting in Rakhine

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DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Thai princess registers as ‘commoner’ to be PM

A Thai party has nominated the King’s sister, Princess Ubolratana Rajakanya as its candidate for prime minister. This is an unprecedented move that could upend the political landscape and give the monarchy an overt role in politics.

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CNN

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Political risk grips Thailand as King rejects sister’s poll bid

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Bloomberg

Morocco suspends participation in Yemen war

Morocco has suspended its participation in the Saudi Arabia-led military coalition’s fight against Yemen’s Houthi rebels, government officials have said.

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Al Jazeera

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Scientists baffled by signs of life on new island

Scientists have found signs of life on one of the world’s newest islands, just four years after it was spawned by a volcanic eruption. Unofficially known as Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai, it’s nurturing pink flowers, and even barn owls.

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BBC

We’re eating Earth’s big animals into extinction

Humanity’s meat-eating habits are killing off Earth’s biggest animals at an alarming rate. That’s according to a shocking new study, which found that at least 150 species of large animals are at risk of extinction.

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GLOBAL HEALTH

Yemen’s cancer patients suffer as clinics shut

The World Health Organization says 35,000 Yemenis have cancer, and 11,000 are diagnosed every year. But increasingly, cancer clinics have been closing, leaving patients without access to treatment and care.

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Al Jazeera

Overworked doctors bribed for priority in Kenya

Doctors working long hours for low salaries accept bribes from as low as $20 to prioritize patients in Kenya.

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Al Jazeera

Columns And Op-Ed

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Over 109,000 people died from measles in 2017 — needlessly

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The sorry state of the world economy

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Channel NewsAsia

The Guardian view on teenage activists: protesters not puppets

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Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

Artists of all ages keep creative spirits alive

For the nine people photographed in this portfolio by Djeneba Aduayom — from an 18-year-old poet to a 94-year-old actor — what keeps them at work is the possibility of connecting with others.

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TIME

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Tokyo Olympic medals to be created from recycled electronic waste

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Channel NewsAsia

Teen engineer builds self a robotic Lego arm

A teenager born without a right forearm due to a rare genetic condition has built himself a robotic prosthetic arm using Lego pieces. David Aguilar, 19, a bioengineering student in Spain, aims to design affordable robotic limbs.

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ABC.net.au

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Palestinian women hit hard by US aid cuts

For years, the United States was the largest aid donor to Palestinians. With funding to health, education and sanitation programs brought to a sudden halt, it’s women and girls who are hit the hardest.

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Public service announcements reduces violence against women

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Vox

App unites refugees, volunteer translators

Tarjimly, the startup nonprofit that launched a Facebook Messenger bot to connect volunteer translators with refugees, already has a large network of volunteer translators. Now it’s opening up to allow more ways of helping.

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Fast Company

ENVIRONMENT

Time running out for trapped whales

Russian video footage shows that the animals, likely bound for aquariums, are languishing in freezing waters and legal limbo.

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National Geographic

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The wetlands of Rio Magdalena in Colombia are under threat

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‘Time bomb’ warning on mining dam disasters

The collapse of a dam at a mine in Brazil has exposed a darker side of an industry that the world depends on. At nearly 800 sites across the country and more around the world, dams contain huge loads of mining waste.

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BBC

ECONOMIC EQUITY

Mexico’s Obrador vows funds for the people

As part of an ambitious effort to fight poverty and reduce government corruption, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says his government would embrace what he called “Franciscan poverty.”

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The Conversation

Finland income trial fails to net people work

Giving jobless people in Finland a basic income for two years did not lead them to find work, researchers said. The aim was to see if a guaranteed safety net would help people find jobs, and support them if they had to take insecure gig economy work.

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BBC

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Cyclists in rich neighborhoods have better cycling infrastructure than low-income counterparts

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U.S. News & World Report

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A boy plays with a hoop in the streets of Pinga, Congo. (Photo by Sylvain Liechti) Photo used under CC BY

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