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A young mother. According to a Mumbai based nonprofit Magic Bus, around 30 per cent of girls in India are married aged 13 or 14. Their parents effectively force them into an early commitment - commonly with an older man. (Photo by SAM Nasim) Photo used under CC BY

Child marriages in India imperil girls’ future

Almost a third of Indian girls marry in their early teens with weddings leading to early pregnancies and jeopardizing educational prospects, campaigners have warned.

The Independent

It’s time to close the loopholes on child marriage in the US

Fortune

Venezuela army ready to enforce border closure

The military is preparing to enforce border closures to prevent aid from entering Venezuela. Soldiers have remained loyal to President Nicolas Maduro, despite efforts from Juan Guaido to bring the army to his side.

Deutsche Welle

Trump urges Venezuelan military: ‘Set your country free’

BBC

Experts warn of climate-related global conflicts

Climate change threats – from worsening water shortages in Iraq and Pakistan to harsher hurricanes in the Caribbean – are a growing security risk and require concerted action to ensure they don’t spark new violence, security experts have warned.

Globalnews

UK child poverty to hit a record high in 2019

Government figures showed over four million children in the UK were living in relative poverty in 2018. This number will rise over the next five years.

The Big Issue

Afghanistan, Pakistan polio efforts in danger

The unmonitored movement of people across the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan threatens efforts to eradicate polio from the two countries, as the year’s first cases of the virus are recorded in the volatile region.

Guardian

Polio returns to Papua New Guinea

Cosmos Magazine

Iceland’s intersex kids at risk with new law

The future health of Iceland’s intersex children has been put at risk with the removal of protections from a draft law that promotes transgender rights, the country’s leading intersex activist said.

Reuters

HUMAN RIGHTS

Life in the camps for Syria’s refugee children

Paddy Dowling, humanitarian photojournalist, returns to Lebanon to find Syrian children as young as eight forced into work to support their families. Has the world just grown tired of the Syrian Refugee Crisis now in its eighth year?

The Independent

Syrian children in focus at Sarajevo museum on war and childhood

Reuters

Blame for mass rapes points to S. Sudan army

South Sudan’s military likely holds some responsibility for the rape of more than 100 women and girls late last year in the northern city of Bentiu, a UN-backed report said.

The Rappler

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Taiwan to unveil draft same-sex marriage law

Taiwan’s government said that it would propose a draft law to allow same-sex marriage in Asia’s first such bill amid a heated debate over marriage equality that has divided the self-ruled island.

Reuters

LGBT+ Africans optimistic as Kenya set to rule on decriminalizing gay sex

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Mexico to close region’s last island penal colony

Mexico will close its infamously brutal Isla Marias prison, the last island penal colony in a hemisphere once dotted with remote island jails. Two-thirds of 659 remaining inmates will be relocated, and 200 others, freed.

Associated Press

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

China wants to build a solar farm in space

China’s plans for a space-based solar farm have been revealed. Rather than a power-gathering installation on Earth, the country plans to launch an energy-gathering solar station into Earth orbit.

New York Post

Could shark DNA be the cure for cancer?

Experts believe that great white sharks may hold the secrets to curing cancer and other age-related diseases.

BBC

Japan approves cells for treating spinal injuries

Japan’s health ministry has approved the world’s first clinical test in which artificially derived stem cells will be used to treat patients with spinal cord injuries.

Japan Times

GLOBAL HEALTH

South Asians have high rates of heart disease

People of South Asian descent have four times the risk of heart disease compared to the general population, and they develop the disease up to a decade earlier.

Channel NewsAsia

Cut out an hour of sitting every day to slash your heart disease risk by 25%, study says

Daily Mail

Cervical cancer to be wiped by end of century?

New research suggests that the goal of WHO’s urgent call for global elimination of cervical cancer is well within our grasp. Widespread cervical screenings, vaccines could see it eliminated in 149 countries by century’s turn.

Science Alert

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

Finland’s failed universal income experiment

The Post and Courier

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Child slave labor rampant in chocolate supply chain

San Antonio Express News

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Bike-friendly cities should be designed for everyone, not just for wealthy white cyclists

The Conversation

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GOOD NEWS

Traveling lab bridges digital divide in Benin

A Cotonou-based non-profit group has designed a solar panel-powered trailer, equipped with enough laptops to enable rural students to familiarize themselves with computers, something most cannot afford.

Phys.org

Dog reunited 101 days after California wildfire

When the Ballejos family evacuated their home due to the devastating California wildfire last year, their dog went missing in the chaos. They have reunited with the Akita 101 days later, believing he survived by eating skunks.

USA TODAY

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Nonprofit pledges $10M to end sexual violence

The New York City-based NoVo Foundation has announced a three-year, $10 million commitment in support of programs in the United States aimed at reducing and preventing commercial sexual exploitation.

Philanthropy News Digest

Grantmaker aims to fund projects by minorities

By 2020, The Solutions Project, an organization known for leading the push for 100% renewable energy, plans to invest 95% of its resources in projects led by people of color, and 80% to women-led organizations.

Fast Company

ENVIRONMENT

EU can farm greener and still feed population

Europe would still be able to feed its growing population even if it switched entirely to environmentally friendly approaches such as organic farming, according to a new report from a thinktank.

Guardian

Animal trade pushing animals to extinction

Hundreds of animal species are at risk of extinction because wildlife trade restrictions are taking too long to come into effect, a major new study warns.

The Independent

Chinese ‘Queen of Ivory’ jailed for 15 years in Tanzania

CNN

ECONOMIC EQUITY

US unemployment claims rise by 4K to 239K

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose last week but remains at levels low enough to show that most workers enjoy job security.

Associated Press

Black Lives Matter making single moms homeowners

truthout

S. Africa’s minimum wage too low to help poor

South Africa’s minimum wage officially took effect in January 2019, touted by government as a way to address poverty and inequality. Up to 5 million were supposed to benefit, but critics say it’s below subsistence level.

Deutsche Welle

Photo of the Day

A child looks on as her family is displaced to Qaa in Lebanon from Syria in 2012. Syrian children have lost their childhoods since the crisis began 2010. (Photo by Freedom House) Photo used under CC BY

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