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A unaccompanied child at South Texas Border. The perilous journey undertaken by these young migrants without an accompanying adult makes them vulnerable to being assaulted, sexually abused, raped, trafficked into sexual exploitation or forced into “survival sex,” according to an International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies report. The report, “Alone and Unsafe,” shows that the number of unaccompanied child migrants has grown fivefold in five years. (Photo by U.S. Customs and Border Protection) Photo used under CC BY

Unescorted child migrants face abuse, exploitation

Unaccompanied child migrants face dangerous journeys during transit, including abuse and detention, rights organizations have warned, highlighting significant failings in safeguarding unaccompanied minors.

Al Jazeera

Third migrant dies in Border Patrol custody in as many months

USA TODAY

Investors hurt affordability of US mobile homes

Mobile homes — what the industry calls manufactured housing — provide the largest unsubsidized form of affordable housing in the United States.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Instability has displaced 100K in Burkina Faso

More than 100,000 people have been displaced by factional fighting and lawlessness in Burkina Faso, most within the past two months, according to a UN report.

Reuters

Venezuela strains Latin American health care

The collapse of the health care system in Venezuela is having ramifications throughout Latin America. Disease outbreaks across the continent are being linked back to Venezuela.

NPR

Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro slams Donald Trump

YouTube

Ditch Maduro or lose everything, Trump tells Venezuelan army

Guardian

US states sue over emergency declaration

A coalition of 16 US states led by California is suing President Donald Trump’s administration over his decision to declare an emergency to raise funds for a Mexican border wall.

BBC

200 families trapped by Islamic State in Syria

Syrian Democratic Forces are on the brink of defeating ISIS in its last pocket in eastern Syria, where a few hundred ISIS fighters and about 2,000 civilians are under siege.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Syrians returning home after years of fleeing war

BBC

HUMAN RIGHTS

Will the world accept ISIS kids into its fold?

As ISIS retains only a tiny territory in Syria, the West is being forced to grapple with how to deal with minors who qualify for citizenship through their parents, including foreign fighters who carried out atrocities abroad.

NBCNews.com

Send me home: what should happen to the Isis wives?

Guardian

UK lawmakers want tougher anti-slavery laws

Fashion companies who flout a law requiring them to publish details of their actions to combat slavery should face a penalty under a toughening of legislation, British lawmakers said after holding an inquiry into the industry.

Reuters

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Forbidden City to open for first time in 94 years

For the first time in 94 years, China’s Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, will open its doors to the public for Beijing’s Lantern Festival celebration. Only VIP guests have had the privilege of seeing it illuminated at night.

CNN

Special section:

How Beijing’s Forbidden City became one of the largest world museums

South China Morning Post

India tension: Pakistan urges UN intervention

Pakistan’s foreign minister appealed to the UN secretary-general to help ease tension with India that has escalated sharply following a suicide bombing in the Indian part of disputed Kashmir. India blamed Pakistan for the attack.

NBCNews.com

Kashmir: Why India and Pakistan fight over it

BBC

Pakistan tried to disrupt 2009 Indian elections too with major terror event

Economic Times

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Israel to launch historic moon landing mission

Aiming to become the fourth country to make a soft landing on the moon, Israel’s non-profit SpaceIL has announced it will launch a spacecraft from Florida’s Cape Canaveral, on Thursday, on board a Falcon 9 rocket.

CNN

China wants to put a solar farm in space by 2025

YouTube

‘Killer’ cells raise hope of universal flu vaccine

Scientists said they had discovered immune cells that can fight all known flu viruses in what was hailed as an “extraordinary breakthrough” that could lead to a universal, one-shot vaccine against the killer disease.

Medical Xpress

GLOBAL HEALTH

Pakistani women seek abortions as birth control

In a country where religious leaders are critical of family planning measures and there is a lack of sex education and access to contraception, one of more than 2 million women a year opt for abortions.

Channel NewsAsia

China’s leaders tussle over reproduction policy

Facing a future demographic crisis and aging society, China’s leaders are desperately seeking to persuade couples to have more children. But bureaucrats don’t seem to have gotten the message, as they are levying fines.

Associated Press

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Morten Wendelbo):

Why Maduro is blocking Venezuela-bound humanitarian aid when so many people in his country need it

The Conversation

Column (Fisayo Soyombo):

Why can’t Nigeria get its election timetable right?

Al Jazeera

Column (Arwa Mahdawi):

Calls to ban the Saudi ‘wife-tracking’ app could be counterproductive

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

103-year-old becomes junior park ranger

Rose Torphy was inducted as a junior ranger at age 103 while vacationing at Grand Canyon National Park with her daughter. The canyon celebrates its 100th year as a designated national park next week, making Torphy three years older than the park.

Inside Edition

Research upcycles plastic waste into batteries

A new approach could extract carbon from polyethylenes in a cost-competitive way, that could be scaled up. Researchers have also performed electric testing with the extracted carbon and found it suitable for use as anodes in Li-ion batteries, among multiple other uses.

pv magazine

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Progress on K–12 connectivity, work remains

Teachers and students are well on their way to fulfilling the mission of seeing 99 percent of all schools connected to next-generation broadband, according to EducationSuperHighway but 2.3 million students and 1,356 schools lack basic infrastructure needed for digital learning.

Ed Tech Magazine

Fund to help investments in developing world

The International Fund for Agricultural Development and impact investment platform Bamboo Capital Partners have announced the launch of a fund designed to de-risk small loans to agricultural entrepreneurs in developing countries.

Philanthropy News Digest

ENVIRONMENT

Coal-contaminated snow covers Siberian town

Black snow has been spotted in a coal mining region in Russia. While the Kemerovo area in southwest Siberia’s gothic makeover may look eerily beautiful, it’s indicative of a coal mining industry that has very little regulation.

The Independent

Amazon aims to cut carbon footprint by 2030

Amazon has set a goal of cutting in half the carbon footprint created by its shipments by 2030 as it moves to a long-term objective of using 100 percent renewable energy.

CNET News

UK plans to make plastic packaging producers pay for waste disposal

Reuters

ECONOMIC EQUITY

Japan can’t track 10M people owed benefits

Japanese government lacks current addresses for more than 10 million people shortchanged on employment and other benefits due to years of faulty labor data surveys, hindering efforts to compensate everyone affected.

Nikkei Asian Review

Labor unrest erupting on Honduran plantations

In the past few months, a surge of political action has erupted in Honduran plantations, as workers battle for union rights and rattle the global agricultural supply chain.

truthout

Photo of the Day

A child vendor sits with a chicken by a basket of fruits and other wares in Copan, Honduras, in 2006. (Photo by Maurizio Costanzo) Photo used under CC BY

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