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A child in Yemen eats from a ready-to-use therapeutic food bag. The 2019 Humanitarian Needs Overview for Yemen report states that 24 million people across the country are food insecure, half of them suffering extreme levels of hunger. The report focuses on some key humanitarian issues: basic survival needs, protection of civilians and livelihoods, and essential basic services. (Photo by UNICEF) Photo used under CC BY

24M need help, protection as crisis deepens in Yemen

An estimated 24 million people – close to 80 per cent of the population – need assistance and protection in Yemen, the UN warns. With famine threatening hundreds of thousands of lives, humanitarian aid is increasingly becoming the only lifeline for millions across the country.

UN News

Yemen’s warring sides agree to pullback from Hodeidah

Al Jazeera

US masses aid along Venezuelan border

The U.S. effort to distribute tons of food and medicine to needy Venezuelan is also designed to foment regime change in Venezuela — which is why much of the international aid community wants nothing to do with it.

NPR

US income inequality hits pre-Depression level

Income inequality in the U.S., which has steadily been increasing since the 1980s, has reached levels last seen in the years just before the Great Depression, according to a recent economic analysis.

Fortune

India Myanmar border a new trafficking route

A new route emerged when Myanmar opened up its land boundary with India. But the new route has also brought new hazards, including increased human trafficking, especially of Nepali citizens headed to either West Asia or South East Asia.

Scroll

Rohingya refugees flee to India

CNN

Bulgaria urged to stop locking up stateless

Some 130 stateless people have been detained in Bulgaria in the past decade. The real number is probably higher, as stateless people are often wrongly ascribed nationality.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Uganda urged to decriminalize sex work

Human and women rights activists have appealed to Members of Parliament not to criminalize prostitution as they debate and pass the pending Sexual Offenses Bill of 2015 into law.

allAfrica.com

HUMAN RIGHTS

Syria civil war saw over 300 chemical attacks

A recent study released tallies the chemical weapons attacks over the course of the Syrian civil war, which has left hundreds of thousands dead. At least 336 have occurred, a number previously unknown.

NPR

India’s rape ruling aims to end false claims

Last month, India’s top court ruled that rape cannot be invoked in cases of consensual sex after a relationship ends and the man declines to marry the woman, for whatever reason.

Guardian

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

New Zealand targets tech giants with digital tax

New Zealand said it plans to update its laws so it can tax revenue earned by multinational digital firms such as Google, Facebook and Amazon, extending a global effort to bring global tech giants into the tax net.

Reuters

Kenya, Uganda fighting over tiny rock island

The African rock island of Migingo, with its poorly constructed huts, a tiny port, some bars, a brothel and an open-air casino, is heavily contested by Kenya and Uganda, both of which claim ownership.

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Chinese surveillance tracks millions in Xinjiang

A Chinese surveillance firm is tracking the movements of more than 2.5 million people in the far-western Xinjiang region, according to a data leak flagged by a Dutch internet expert.

Reuters

How to regulate the internet without becoming a dictator

Foreign Policy

Could artificial leaves absorb CO2 from air?

Researchers want to bring improved leaves out into the open. This could use carbon dioxide, a potent greenhouse gas, from the air, and would be at least 10 times more efficient than natural leaves at converting carbon dioxide to fuel.

ScienceDaily

GLOBAL HEALTH

Haiti hospitals crippled as riots cut supplies

Violent protests and unrest have gripped Haiti since February 7, with demonstrators calling its President to resign over soaring inflation and corruption. Now hospitals can’t get medicines, equipment or doctors past protestors.

CNN

In pictures: Haiti anti-government protests

BBC

Rebellious teens seek measles vaccine on sly

As a measles outbreak makes its way through Washington state in the U.S., the children of anti-vaccination parents are taking to the internet to ask how they can get vaccinations without their parents’ permission.

KSL Newsradio

Son defies mom, chooses to get vaccinated at 18: ‘God knows how I’m still alive’

USA TODAY

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GOOD NEWS

Australia planting 1B trees to hit climate goals

The Australian government is gearing up to plant a billion new trees, as part of a vast campaign aimed to meet the climate targets set by the Paris Agreement.

Futurism

Teacher gets same haircut as bullied student

A kindergarten teacher at Meador Elementary School, in Willis, Texas, recently cut her hair short after one of her students was getting teased by classmates for her own cropped hairstyle. She hopes her gesture can be used as an example in the future.

Today

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Nonprofit files first lawsuit against emergency

In response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency, Public Citizen has filed the first lawsuit to block its implementation. PC is working on behalf of three landowners whose land may be appropriated for construction of the barrier.

NonProfit Quarterly

Immigration advocates just sued the Department of Homeland Security over its “Remain in Mexico” policy

CBS News

Gateses unfazed by recent criticisms

Bill and Melinda Gates are pushing back against a new wave of criticisms that are more existential, challenging whether their level of wealth is good for society and whether it’s functional to rely on the generosity of the very rich to fix its problems.

Omaha World Herald

ENVIRONMENT

Plastic found in bird eggs from remote Arctic

Chemicals from plastics have been found inside the eggs of seabirds living in remote Arctic colonies, in the latest sign of pollution contaminating the furthest reaches of earth.

The Independent

Dozens of companies launch US$1 billion bid to end plastic pollution in Asia but environmentalists dismiss it as ‘greenwashing’ stunt

South China Morning Post

Roasting causes pollution ‘worse than Delhi’

Cooking a Sunday roast can drive indoor air pollution far above the levels found in the most polluted cities on Earth, scientists have said. Fine soot, tiny organic particles from gas flames, oils and fat emit harmful particulates.

Guardian

ECONOMIC EQUITY

Amazon will pay $0 in federal taxes yet again

Those wondering how many zeros Amazon, which is valued at nearly $800 billion, has to pay in federal taxes might be surprised to learn that its check to the IRS will read $0.00, for the second consecutive year.

Fortune

UK‘s richest man moves to Monaco to ’save $5B in tax’

Guardian

Australian sports pledge gender equal pay

Australia’s top sports federations have pledged to achieve gender equality in pay for athletes and administrators as part of a blueprint issued by a local advocacy group.

Reuters

Photo of the Day

A market stall holder in northern Uganda in December 2011. Northern Uganda was once the breadbasket of the country, but 20 years of war have ravaged the land and traumatized the people. The International Monetary Fund predicts Uganda’s economy to grow 6.3 percent in the 2018-19, thanks to robust activity in sectors including manufacturing and construction. (Photo by Department for International Development/Pete Lewis) Photo used under CC BY

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