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Earth Day 2017 March in Melbourne. The UN has warned The ’extraction and processing of materials, fuels and food’ is responsible for half of total greenhouse gas emissions and 90% of ‘biodiversity loss and water stress.’ (Photo by Takver) Photo used under CC BY

UN fears human greed will cause an apocalypse

The UN has published a report which found that the extraction of resources has tripled since 1970, with a 45% increase in the use of fossil fuels. Urgent action is needed to curb our greedy exploitation of the natural world.

Metro UK

Environment damage behind 1 in 4 global deaths, disease: UN

Phys.org

Group calls EU complicit in migrant abuse

Amnesty International has accused the EU of being “complicit” in the “systematic, unlawful, and frequently violent pushbacks and collective expulsions” by Croatian police of thousands of asylum seekers to neighboring Bosnia-Herzegovina, where they live in “squalid and unsafe” refugee camps.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

At US-Mexico border, migrants seeking legal entry are stranded in hazardous ‘limbo’

PBS NewsHour

Venezuelan kids fall prey to traffickers in Peru

Migrant children fleeing alone from Venezuela’s economic and political crises, along with destitute Venezuelan migrants arriving without documents both make easy prey for human traffickers in Peru, anti-slavery experts said.

Reuters

How millions of ‘dirty dollars’ were laundered out of Venezuela

Deutsche Welle

Women’s participation in politics slowing: UN

Political violence, verbal abuse, and abuse on social media that female candidates and politicians face in many countries is contributing to the slowing down of women wanting to contest for office, according to the executive director of UN Women.

TIME

US, Canada native women missing at high rate

Indigenous women and girls in the US and Canada continue to go missing at a disproportionate rate. Murder is the third leading cause of death among American Indian and Alaskan Native women.

The Independent

Saudi women’s rights activists go on trial

Several Saudi Arabian women’s rights activists stood trial for the first time since a group of them were detained last year in a case that has intensified scrutiny of the kingdom’s human rights record after the murder of a prominent journalist.

Guardian

HUMAN RIGHTS

England to fund free sanitary products for girls

England will fund free sanitary products for school and college students after teachers raised concern that some girls were skipping lessons during their period because they could not afford to buy tampons and pads.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

The state of period poverty in the United States

Papermag

Saudi Arabia has an app for tracking women. Human rights groups are calling for Google and Apple to shut it down

Good

Central African Republic most unsafe for kids

In the Central African Republic, a raging civil war and looming famine have dire consequences for the nation’s children. An estimated 1.5 million children are at risk of starvation, aid groups say.

NBCNews.com

Inside ‘the most dangerous place in the world for children’

NBCNews.com

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Bouteflika abandons bid for term amid protests

Algeria’s president of two decades abandoned his bid for a fifth term following unprecedented protests over his fitness for office. But his postponement of next month’s elections had critics worried he intends to hold on to power.

Associated Press

Why are Algerians still protesting after Bouteflika announcement?

BBC

N. Korea defies UN with arms sales, oil imports

North Korea has broken UN sanctions with a “massive” increase of oil imports and coal exports, a UN report has found.

CNN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Ontario ban mobile phones in classrooms

Canada’s most populous province, Ontario, will ban mobile phones in classrooms next year. But there would be exceptions for teachers who want to use them as part of lessons, students with special needs, medical reasons.

BBC

Scientists reverse time on quantum computer

Scientists have reversed the direction of time with a quantum computer. The breakthrough study seems to contradict basic laws of physics and could alter our understanding of the processes governing the universe.

The Independent

GLOBAL HEALTH

Infectious diseases resurging in homeless

Infectious diseases — some that ravaged populations in the Middle Ages — are resurging in California and around the country, and are hitting homeless populations especially hard.

ABC News

Communities reach out to homeless as hepatitis A surges

FOX News

Night urination causes global economy billions

Nocturia, the health condition that has people getting up multiple times at night to use the bathroom is costing the globe tens of billions of dollars every year, according to a new study.

Quartz

Columns And Op-Ed

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It’s not just corruption. Entrance into elite US colleges is rigged in every way

Guardian

Column (Juri Rescheto):

The ‘Russian internet’ is Soviet-era oppression

Deutsche Welle

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Uncovering the dangerous subculture behind gun violence in Thailand

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GOOD NEWS

Once homeless teen accepted to 17 colleges

Despite dealing with homelessness throughout his life,17-year-old Dylan Chidick now has his choice of colleges to pick from after receiving 17 acceptance letters

CBS17

Terminally ill girl gets K9 surprise

A terminally-ill girl received an extra special surprise when over 35 police K-9 teams from around her home state of Wisconsin paid the dog-lover a visit.

WGNO

Disabled animals find refuge at Freedom Farm

Reuters

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Gender pay gap in fundraising persists

The fundraising profession suffers from a gender pay gap, with women fundraisers making about 10 percent less than their male counterparts, a report from the Association of Fundraising Professionals finds.

Philanthropy News Digest

NGOs worried about EU aid funds post-Brexit

Amid growing fears that the United Kingdom could crash out of the European Union without a deal on March 29, UK NGOs say they are unsure about whether they can continue to work with the EU’s humanitarian arm, ECHO.

Devex

ENVIRONMENT

Kids in 40 nations will protest climate change

In schools across at least 40 countries, students are expected to walk out of their classrooms this Friday to participate in what have become known as the “school strikes” against climate change inaction.

Quartz

BirthStrikers: meet the women who refuse to have children until climate change ends

Guardian

Bottled solar power lights up Brazil community

Renewable technology is bringing light into the lives of Kalunga people, descendants of slaves living in remote communities in Brazil. Now, solar powered lamps made from recycled bottles are extending their evenings.

Deutsche Welle

ECONOMIC EQUITY

Crime sees Slovakia at economic crossroads

Although Slovakia is seen by German carmakers as a great place to invest, it is also a country with the worst economic freedom in Central Europe, and where organized crime flourishes with murky links to public officials.

Deutsche Welle

IMF ready to help rescue Venezuelan economy

The International Monetary Fund is ready to rescue Venezuela’s economy, but the task will be so huge that it will require financial help from other international players, the head of the body said.

The Telegraph

Photo of the Day

Malnourished children in Northern Kenya gather around to eat a “Potato-W” meal in August 2011. A non-profit organization, Feed My Starving Children’s Potato-W meals are helpful for malnourished children. Formulated by food scientists, while their Potato-D product treats diarrhea, a leading killer of children all around the world, the W formula is for weaning babies and providing nutrients for those up to 12 months of age. (Photo by Feed My Starving Children) Photo used under CC BY

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