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A child soldier in Afghanistan. According to a report released by Child Soldiers International, a London-based human rights organization, the number of child soldiers involved in conflicts globally increased 159 percent between 2012 and 2017. (Photo by Robin Kirk) Photo used under CC BY

Number of child soldiers skyrockets to 30,000

The number of children used as soldiers in armed conflicts around the world has more than doubled, with almost 30,000 recruitment cases verified despite international laws against the practice, a report has found.

Daily Sabah

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Children ‘targeted for violence’ by armed groups in Venezuela, say advocates

CBC News

Sri Lanka reinstates capital punishment

Sri Lankan prison authorities are recruiting two hangmen after the president pledged to end a 43-year moratorium on capital punishment and execute condemned drug traffickers.

NBCNews.com

In Zimbabwe, HIV patients suffer when food is short

Climate change is making rain erratic in Zimbabwe. People living with HIV have complications after harvest failures because the lack of food affects the effectiveness of their treatment.

CNN

Discrimination continues for Bulgaria’s Roma

The Roma community in Bulgaria lives on the fringes of society and struggle for work, as in other EU countries — with those in small settlements facing legal problems when it comes to land ownership.

Reuters

UK vows to tackle breast ironing practice

The United Kingdom has vowed to confront the practice of breast-ironing, calling it child abuse and saying the police should prosecute offenders under assault laws.

Guardian

Outside Brazil’s cities, police impunity is rife

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro rode to power on a “30 bullets for every bandit” slogan in a bid to fight crime in Brazil. Those closest to the firing line are bearing the brunt of police impunity.

Deutsche Welle

US police shoot almost 1,000 people dead every year, figures show

The Independent

HUMAN RIGHTS

Migrants selling organs for passage to Egypt

Desperate to reach Europe, migrants from Africa are traveling to Egypt and selling body parts to pay for their passage.

Guardian

Australia senate votes to take in sick refugees

The Australian parliament has passed a bill giving doctors greater say over medical transfers for refugees, the first time a government has lost a vote on its own legislation in the country for almost 80 years.

The Independent

Canada to welcome hundreds of refugees from Libya

CNN

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

EU adds Saudi Arabia to dirty-money blacklist

The European Commission added Saudi Arabia, Panama, Nigeria and other jurisdictions to a blacklist of nations seen as posing a threat because of lax controls on terrorism financing and money laundering, the EU executive said.

Reuters

The most corrupt countries in the world

Forbes

Turkey slashes food prices as election looms

Local authorities in Istanbul and Ankara began selling cut-price vegetables this week as Turkey battles inflationary pressures its leaders blamed on “food terrorism.”

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

AI to identify child sex trafficking in hotel rooms

Scientists are hoping artificial intelligence can help identify and rescue child victims of sex trafficking via an app and more than a million crowdsourced pictures of hotel rooms.

Futurism

3-D printed tires and shoes that self-repair

Instead of throwing away your broken boots or cracked toys, why not let them fix themselves? Researchers have now developed 3-D-printed rubber materials that can do just that.

phys.org

GLOBAL HEALTH

Bootleg liquor kills 100 In India’s worst outbreak

Bootleg liquor is being blamed for more than 100 deaths in northern India, after alcohol poisoning sickened people in the states of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. It’s the worst outbreak of deadly booze to hit India in years.

NPR

Alcohol ban across India? Bihar CM makes a pitch again

Conde Nast Traveller India

1 in 6 US kids have mental health disorders

Roughly in six US kids have at least one mental health disorder, and only about half of them receive treatment from a mental health professional, a new study suggests.

Channel NewsAsia

Columns And Op-Ed

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How the AU failed Africans, from Sudan to DRC and Zimbabwe

Al Jazeera

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Why the US has higher drug prices than other countries

The Conversation

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López Obrador clashes with courts after vowing ‘poverty’ for Mexican government

The Conversation

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GOOD NEWS

Thirsty baby flamingos airlifted to safety

Thousands of baby flamingos are recuperating in sites across South Africa after bird lovers helped rescue them from a breeding ground run dry.

NPR

Doctor saves fellow hockey player’s life on ice

An emergency room doctor saw a fellow player collapse on the ice at an ice rink in Charlotte, North Carolina. The doctor rushed to the player and performed CPR while others called 911 and got the rink’s defibrillator.

USA TODAY

$8 baseball card could be worth millions

KOLO 8

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Gateses address toilets, DNA, sexist data

Philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates released their annual letter citing the broad spectrum of events, from devastating natural disasters on one end to a record number of women campaigning for elected office on the other.

CNET News

Top 50 donors in US gave much less in 2018

Giving by the 50 biggest donors in the United States totaled $7.8 billion in 2018. The total is down significantly from the $14.7 billion given by the top 50 donors in 2017.

Philanthropy News Digest

ENVIRONMENT

The hidden environmental cost of V-Day roses

The ubiquity and accessibility of Valentine’s Day flowers obscure the long, complex journey they have to take from the greenhouse to your house, and environmental costs that add up along the way.

Vox

China and India help make planet leafier

China and India, two of the world’s biggest polluters, are making it leafier - for now, a report says. There are now more than 2 million sq miles of extra leaf area per year, compared with the early 2000s.

BBC

Ice fishing under threat in the Great Lakes

More than 1.5 million people go out on the ice. But as winters warm, ice culture has to reckon with a changing climate that may endanger the experience of winter itself.

National Geographic

ECONOMIC EQUITY

DoorDash, Amazon count tips against wages

The tipping controversy that prompted Instacart to reverse compensation to contract workers isn’t going away: Rivals DoorDash, Amazon Flex will adjust driver pay based on their tip, saying it ensures minimum payout.

Forbes

EU slaps Cambodia with trade sanctions

The European Union started an 18-month process that could lead to the suspension of Cambodia’s duty-free trade access over its record on human rights and democracy.

Reuters

Cambodia cheapest country to retire in

Manila Times

Photo of the Day

Children at a Refugee Action Collective rally in July 2011 protesting the fact that children were languishing in the harsh environment of immigration camps around Australia. The country recently announced that it will move the last children from a Nauru detention camp to the U.S. (Photo by Takver) Photo used under CC BY

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