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The Uighurs Muslims are an ethnic minority group of around 11 million. Many live in Xianjiang - an autonomous region in Northwest China. The Chinese Government houses many Uighurs in what they refer to as “re-education centers,” but many reports state these are actually detention centers. (Photo by Mike Pryan) Photo used under CC BY

Possible ‘genocide’ committed against Xinjiang Muslims

China has possibly committed “genocide” in its treatment of Uighurs and other minority Muslims in its western region of Xinjiang, a bipartisan commission of the United States Congress has said in a new report.

Al Jazeera

Sudanese protest to close detention centers

Dozens of Sudanese rallied to demand the closure of illegal detention centers following the alleged torturing and killing of a man by a paramilitary force whose members once formed the backbone of a militia accused of war crimes in Darfur.

Associated Press

‘A woman was raped by 20 men; anyone could be the next victim’ – what life is like for women in Sudan

Yahoo! News

Death toll from COVID-19 tops 2M worldwide

The global death toll from COVID-19 topped 2 million as vaccines developed at breakneck speed are being rolled out around the world. The milestone was reached just over a year after the coronavirus was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

Associated Press

Oxygen shortage in Brazil as new variant spreads

Deutsche Welle

U.S. coronavirus deaths near 390,000

PBS NewsHour

Palestinian prisoners to receive vaccination

Israel‘s health minister announced the country would vaccinate Palestinian prisoners against COVID-19, after Israel’s president said withholding vaccines was against Israel’s Jewish and democratic values.

NPR

Thousands flee violence in Central Africa

The number of people fleeing violence in the Central African Republic has doubled to nearly 60,000 in a week. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees has blamed intensifying violence since a presidential vote for the sharp increase in refugees.

Al Jazeera

Central African Republic soldiers repel rebels at capital

ABC News

HUMAN RIGHTS

Transphobic wave leads to death Puerto Rico

A trans man has become the seventh known transgender person to die by violence in Puerto Rico since last February, according to the Transgender Law Center, amid a “wave of homophobic and transphobic violence.”

NBCNews.com

Taliban cracks down on ‘costly’ polygamy

The leader of the Taliban in Afghanistan has issued a decree urging the group’s leaders and commanders to forego taking multiple wives, which he said was inviting “criticism from our enemies.”

BBC

Lone Ethiopian child refugees seen at risk of exploitation in Sudan

Reuters

Rap against Dictatorship: The rappers taking on Thailand’s leaders

BBC

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

Jordan ‘s ’jalwa’ law sends hundreds into exile

Students at Jordan’s Tafila Technical University have initiated a campaign to draw further attention to the potential harm caused by “jalwa,” an informal tradition-based law that has caused entire extended families to be uprooted from their homes for years.

Deutsche Welle

‘Major violations’ of law at Tigray refugee camps

There have been significant violations of international law at two refugee camps in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, the UN’s refugee agency has said.

Al Jazeera

Armenia, Azerbaijan “violated laws of war.”

Azerbaijan and Armenia violated international humanitarian law in recent fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh, Amnesty International has said, as the rights group accused both sides of indiscriminately killing civilians.

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Baby sharks born sick due to climate change

Baby sharks are being born small, exhausted and undernourished as a result of rising ocean temperatures caused by climate change, according to a new study.

LiveScience

Chinese tech patents tools that detect Uighurs

Chinese technology giants have registered patents for tools that can detect, track and monitor Uighurs in a move human rights groups fear could entrench oppression of the Muslim minority.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

These innovations are helping combat COVID-19 across Africa

CNN

GLOBAL HEALTH

No hope in Europe’s largest shanty town

Freezing weather from Storm Filomena, and Spain’s third wave of Covid, compound dire situation in settlement outside Madrid, seriously affecting children’s rights to health, food, water, sanitation and education.

Guardian

China reports first COVID death in 8 months

China has reported its first COVID-19 death since May as its northern province of Hebei battles an outbreak that also prompted the evacuation of thousands of residents of high-risk areas to a quarantine facility.

South China Morning Post

COVID precautions improve, but too slowly

Americans are being more careful to avoid catching and spreading the coronavirus but are still not being careful enough to slow the pandemic, especially with worrisome, more contagious new variants looming.

NPR

Saliva could hold clues to how sick you will get from COVID-19

Sciencemag.org

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Muhammad Rahaman and Niaz Ahmed Khan):

Time to revisit the concept of human trafficking

Asia Times Online

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India’s ‘love jihad’ laws: Another attempt to subjugate Muslims

Al Jazeera

Column (Isaac Mugabi):

Uganda’s sham election, another waste of time

Deutsche Welle

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GOOD NEWS

100 year anniversary of popular magic trick

He came, he sawed, he conquered. One hundred years ago, illusionist P.T. Selbit put a woman in a box on the stage of London’s Finsbury Park Empire and sawed right through the wood, creating a magical classic.

NBCNews.com

The world’s most powerful passports for 2021

The Henley Passport Index, which periodically measures the world’s most travel-friendly passports, has just released its latest report -- and an analysis of what might lie ahead.

CNN

Turning Zanzibar into a wedding paradise

Deutsche Welle

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Musician gives shoes to healthcare workers

Singer Post Malone has partnered with a charity to bring 10,000 pairs of Crocs to health care workers in hospitals around the United States. The shoes are limited edition which are sold out on the Crocs website.

MSN

Gifts that give back: Designer gives profit to charity

MSNBC

Starbucks invests $100M in support of BIPOC

Starbucks is planning to invest $100 million in underserved communities by 2025 to help advance racial equity and environmental initiatives through projects in Black, Indigenous and People of Color communities.

ABC News

ENVIRONMENT

Seagrass sieves plastic particles from water

Seagrass provides a long list of services for ocean ecosystems, and the humans who live near the water’s edge. A new study has found one more: trapping plastic pollution in natural bundles of fiber known as “Neptune balls.”

Guardian

Modern-day bounty hunters of South Africa

The fight against rhino poachers in South Africa is a lucrative business. Well-armed units patrol the parks and reserves – and have been accused of murdering innocent people.

Spiegel International

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Forest dwellers hope law will stop evictions

Nomad forest dwellers in Indian-administered Kashmir are pinning their hopes on the implementation of a 14-year-old law to save their land and homes, as the government announces plans to evict thousands of people it says are encroaching on protected land.

Al Jazeera

Young, black and more likely to die in Brazil

BBC

Thailand’s migrant workers get pandemic aid

Global brands and small firms are providing aid to migrant workers in Thailand after a jump in coronavirus cases, a move backed by activist groups who urged businesses to help pay for testing and access healthcare.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Photo of the Day

Buddhist alms in Si Phan Don, Laos. Every day child monks from the temple walk in the village with their alms bowls to collect food, prepared and offered by the locals, and to recite a short prayer in exchange. Ritually, Buddhist monks in Laos have only two meals a day: one in the morning and one at noon. They fast in the evening. (Photo by Basile Morin) Photo used under CC BY

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