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Hundreds of Uighurs and many more supporters demonstrating in Berlin in 2009 for the human rights of the persecuted Muslim minority group in China. Since then, the treatment of the Uighurs by the Chinese government has only worsened. (Photo by langkawi) Photo used under CC BY

The second country to accuse China of committing genocide

Canada’s parliament has voted to declare China’s treatment of Uighur Muslims in the Xinjiang region a genocide, becoming only the second country in the world to do so after the US. The vote is likely to further strain diplomatic ties between the two countries.

The Independent

Uighurs in Turkey fear deportation to China

Deutsche Welle

Gas to Gaza? The pipeline to provide a lifeline

Talks on a gas pipeline that would cross political faultlines and deliver reliable energy to the impoverished Gaza Strip have moved from the abstract to the concrete, officials with knowledge of the process have said.

Reuters

UN warns ‘frenzy of hate’ fueling white supremacy

In his most hard-hitting warning to date on hate movements around the world, U.N. Chief told the Human Rights Council that the world needed to “step up the fight against resurgent neo-Nazism, white supremacy and racially and ethnically motivated terrorism.”

CBS News

The dangers of being Black in America

NBCNews.com

Women face rising violence amid war in Yemen

The six-year civil war has exacerbated already high levels of violence against women, and led to drastic cuts in funding for safe spaces such as the one in Turba, because of competing urgent needs.

Guardian

Women fight for Belarus’ future continues

Deutsche Welle

Protests swell despite Myanmar junta’s threats

More than 1,000 protesters gathered in Myanmar’s biggest city despite the ruling junta’s threat to use lethal force against people who join a general strike against the military’s takeover three weeks ago.

Associated Press

In pictures: Protesters resist Myanmar coup

CNN

What Myanmar’s coup means for the Rohingya

NPR

HUMAN RIGHTS

Human rights under attack during COVID

UN secretary-general António Guterres has said COVID-19 had rolled back years of progress on human rights, and that abuses had “thrived because of poverty, discrimination, and other human rights failures."

Guardian

More child migrants are arriving alone in Spain’s holiday islands

CNN

Thousands of Qatari migrant workers dead

More than 6,500 migrant workers from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka have died in Qatar since it won the right to host the World Cup 10 years ago, new data reveals. The true number may be higher.

Guardian

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

Cuban anti-Communist anthem goes viral

A group of Miami-based Cuban musicians including reggaetón duo Gente de Zona launched an impassioned anti-Communist anthem this week that has gone viral, sparking a furious state response.

Reuters

How a small but powerful band of women led the fight against ISIS

PBS NewsHour

A year on, India’s riot victims see no justice

Many Muslim victims of last year’s violence say the police refuses to investigate complaints against Hindu rioters. Some hope the courts will come to their help. But others believe the justice system is stacked against them.

Associated Press

Colombia‘s ‘capital of horror’ despairs amid new wave of gang violence

Guardian

Iran takes new step away from nuclear pact

Iran has abandoned another key tenet of the nuclear agreement that President Biden is trying to resuscitate after his predecessor reneged on the landmark deal aimed at stopping Iran from getting nuclear weapons.

CBS News

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

NASA releases first-ever audio from Mars

NASA’s Perseverance rover has recorded the first audio clips captured on the surface of Mars, beaming back to Earth guttural sounds of wind gusting on the red planet.

NBCNews.com

Australia discovers a 17,300-year-old rock art

Australian scientists have discovered the country‘s oldest known rock art - a 17,300-year-old painting of a kangaroo. It was found in Western Australia’s Kimberley region, known for its Aboriginal rock paintings.

BBC

GLOBAL HEALTH

US milestone confirms COVID’s tragic reach

After a year that has darkened doorways across the U.S., the pandemic surpassed a milestone that once seemed unimaginable, a stark confirmation of the virus’s reach into all corners of the country.

Associated Press

Lebanon coronavirus funding under threat

The World Bank has threatened to suspend financing Lebanon’s coronavirus vaccine rollout amid allegations members of parliament “skipped the line” and were inoculated without registering in advance.

The Independent

Columns And Op-Ed

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It’s time for the US to make good with Afghanistan

CNN

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It’s time to rename government facilities named after Confederate leaders

The Hill

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How vaccine inequality is reordering the world

Asia Times Online

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GOOD NEWS

Spacecraft named for Black mathematician

A space supply ship carrying some four tons of cargo bound for the International Space Station launched from Virginia.

NPR

Alex Trebek’s suits are giving prisoners, homeless men new hope

Inside Edition

Youngest female rows across Atlantic Ocean

Briton Jasmine Harrison, 21, has become the youngest female to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean after completing a 3,000-mile journey from Spain to Antigua, according to organizer Atlantic Campaigns.

CNN

NONPROFIT & PHILANTHROPY

Texas restaurant provides 500+ free meals

Owners Ari and Blinera Isufaj of Bella Italia Ristorante and their staff made free meals for more than 500 people in Plano, Texas, amid the damaging winter storm.

Today

Good Samaritans lending helping hand to those in need in Texas

Good Morning America

MSU alumnus donates $20M to alma mater

Unable to pay his tuition, Calvin E. Tyler Jr. dropped out of Morgan State College in 1963 and took a job as a truck driver, as one of the first 10 UPS drivers in Baltimore in 1964.

Baltimore Sun

Guards, generosity, patience: A volunteer effort to vaccinate public school workers

NPR

ENVIRONMENT

Indian climate activist symbolizes crackdown

A 22-year-old climate activist has emerged as a symbol of the Indian government’s crackdown on dissent as the country confronts a growing crisis after months of protests from furious farmers.

NBCNews.com

Mexican strawberry farmers go green

Mexico is one of the leading strawberry producers in the world. The program Madre Tierra, which means Mother Earth, is training strawberry growers in more environmentally friendly farming methods.

Deutsche Welle

Beneath the blue: dazzling ocean under threat

Descend through the different zones of the ocean to discover its mesmerizing marine life, how human pollutants are interfering – and what we can still do about it.

Guardian

Kangaroo Island dunnart: Saving a bushfire-ravaged marsupial

BBC

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Loan sharks target Indian sex workers

As COVID-19 hit their incomes, hundreds of cash-strapped sex workers in southern Andhra Pradesh state turned to unofficial moneylenders — most of them lacking the papers needed to get formal bank credit.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Tokyo 2020 Olympics boss quits over backlash

Tokyo 2020 chief Yoshiro Mori bowed to mounting pressure and resigned over sexist remarks, but his replacement was not immediately clear after opposition emerged to his favored successor.

Asia Times Online

Photo of the Day

Citizens of Myanmar gather in Yangon on Feb. 6 to protest the military coup and demand the release of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Another hundred thousand people poured on to the streets in Myanmar on Wednesday to voice their anger at the coup and reject an army claim that it has majority support. (Photo by Alireza Zahraee) Photo used under CC BY

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