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Scene from a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the town of Bangassou, Central African Republic. More than 43,000 of its children below the age of 5 are expected to face an extremely high risk of death next year due to severe malnutrition, according to UNICEF. Caryl Stern, the CEO of UNICEF USA calls CAR the most dangerous place in the world for children. (Photo by UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe) Photo used under CC BY

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CAR civil war creating epic humanitarian crisis

The Central African Republic is now home to a humanitarian crisis of epic scale that has largely gone unnoticed. Beset by a raging civil war and looming famine, the Central African Republic is in shambles.

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Starvation afflicts kids in war-torn Central African Republic

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NBC Boston

Young abuse victims face migration challenges

As President Trump pushes for a physical barrier across the country’s southern border, young people claiming to be eligible for protection under the Special Immigrant Juvenile program increasingly face heightened demands for paperwork.

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Nasdaq

Climate change opening vulnerable to exploitation

Experts say that people who are struggling to provide for their families due to droughts, storms, and erratic harvests are vulnerable to the influence of extremist recruits who offer them work and food.

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CNN

Vietnamese kids trafficked to UK face abuse

Thousands of children trafficked to Britain from Vietnam are being abused and exploited while traveling through Europe as governments pass the buck on their protection amid growing anti-immigration sentiment, three charities have said.

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Reuters

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Migrant children say they were abused in US shelters

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WORLD News Group

Burkina Faso unrest threatens west Africa

A rapid and alarming deterioration of the security situation in Burkina Faso is threatening to spread to its three southern neighbors, a senior US military figure has warned, heralding the potential destabilization of a vast area of west Africa.

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Guardian

India’s divisive policies undermine growth; UN

UN Human Rights High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet, while admitting that poverty has fallen in India, cautioned that divisive policies will undermine the country’s economic growth.

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HUMAN RIGHTS

‘Honor killing’ whistleblower shot dead

Afzal Kohistani, the man at the center of a campaign to expose one of Pakistan’s most notorious “honor killings” cases, has been shot dead nearly seven years after he brought it to national attention.

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BBC

IS-linked kids detained in Iraq “being tortured”

Human Rights Watch reports that 1,500 children are being detained and tortured by federal and Kurdish authorities in Iraq for alleged links to the Islamic State.

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BBC

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In South Africa, two white farmers jailed for murder of black teen

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Al Jazeera

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Canadian PM Trudeau faces corruption scandal

A leading Cabinet minister in Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Prime Minister Trudeau’s government has resigned, becoming the second minister to step down over a scandal that has shaken the government in an election year.

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CBS News

Zimbabwe says harmony with west still on

Zimbabwe says the extension of U.S. sanctions on its government was regrettable but Harare would keep talking to Washington and the European Union to remove the measures it says have stifled its economy.

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Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

When science inspires awe, people get curious

Feeling awe leads to greater awareness of the things we don’t know, which in turn makes us more likely to seek out a framework to fill those gaps, according to a new study.

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Futurity

Gender gap in federal funding for scientists

First-time women principal investigator scientists received considerably less funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) compared to first-time male principal investigators, reports a new study.

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Northwestern Now

Ethiopia’s church forests under threat

In Ethiopia, churches are surrounded by forests — a unique tradition which fosters a rich biodiversity and a special cultural environment. But now, this hallmark of Ethiopia is increasingly under threat.

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ZME Science

GLOBAL HEALTH

Ebola response in DRC failing to contain it

Efforts to curb the Democratic Republic of Congo’s worst Ebola outbreak are stumbling, medical charity MSF warned, blaming the role of the security forces in the response and their “toxic” relations with local communities.

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Punch

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Anti-vaxers’ adult son gets measles; now, he has this message for the world

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CNN

Global health lacks sexual harassment policies

Only 25 of 198 organizations working in global health have comprehensive sexual harassment policies, according to a new report. Only 56 percent of the organizations surveyed have commitments to zero-tolerance to sexual harassment at work, and clearly defined definitions of sexual harassment with examples.

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Devex

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GOOD NEWS

NASA schedules the first all-female spacewalk

Just in time for International Women’s Day, NASA announced that it will be conducting the first-ever, all-female spacewalk. Astronauts Christina Koch and Anne McClain will exit the International Space Station on March 29.

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TIME

Teen saves to buy friend electric wheelchair

For two years, high school senior Tanner Wilson set aside the money he earned from his job at an auto repair shop until finally he had enough to buy an electric wheelchair for his longtime friend Brandon Qualls.

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The Week

Pilot orders pizzas for stuck passengers

Stranded for hours on a snowy tarmac, passengers on an Air Canada flight were beginning to feel the stress, but their pilot knew the answer: 23 pizzas delivered to the airplane’s door.

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CNN

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Report guides on social impact entertainment

Social impact entertainment is not a fad but the future of the entertainment industry, a report from the Skoll Center for Social Impact Entertainment at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, in partnership with Participant Media, argues.

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Philanthropy News Digest

Bill to make charitable donations deductible

Rep. Danny Davis has introduced legislation aimed at raising the amount of charitable giving in America by adding a new incentive at tax time, which nonprofit leaders say is more important than ever as a consequence of the recent tax reform passed in 2017.

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Chronicles of Social Change

ENVIRONMENT

Sapphire trade driving lemurs to extinction

A rush for sapphires in Madagascar is destroying remaining habitat for imperiled lemurs and other wildlife.

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National Geographic

Heatwaves sweeping across the oceans

In the first systematic global analysis of ocean heatwaves, scientists have revealed that the number of heatwaves affecting the planet’s oceans has increased sharply, killing swathes of sea-life.

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Mother Jones

Corruption, gold mining threaten new frog

The Manduriacu glass frog’s tiny habitat in the Ecuadorian Andes is imperiled by political corruption and gold mining, conservationists say.

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National Geographic

ECONOMIC EQUITY

Mumbai’s sanitation workers winning rights

A new trade-union movement in India is using confrontational methods and mobilization alongside legal strategies to organize invisible and mistreated Dalit migrant workers.

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The Nation

India becomes Trump’s latest trade target

In his latest salvo against unfair trade practices in a major Asian market, President Trump says he plans to end preferential trade treatment for India, which sought to downplay the significance of the move.

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NPR

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US trade gap jumped to 10-year high; record gap with China

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A group of kids looking out of a window in Morocco. (Photo by Arek) Photo used under CC BY

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