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Girls carrying water in India. As high-income countries buy products with considerable ‘water footprints’ – the amount of water used in production is contributing to global issues of water scarcity; close to 4 billion people live in water-scarce areas, where for at least part of the year water demand exceeds supply. (Photo by Cecilia Snyder) Photo used under CC BY

Food, fashion industries draining water from poor

Food and clothing imported by wealthy Western countries are making it harder for many poor and marginalized communities to get a daily clean water supply, warns a new report from the international nonprofit WaterAid.

Mirage News

World’s poor pay more for water than the rich: UN

Deutsche Welle

Two-third of the world population lives in water-scarce areas

Down to Earth Magazine

Water is a growing source of global conflict

In 2017 alone, water was a major factor in conflict in at least 45 countries. Its importance as a resource means that water-related insecurity can easily exacerbate tensions and friction within and between countries.

World Economic Forum

UN rights expert: Israel depriving Palestinians of clean water

Reuters

Slavery is the world’s largest criminal industry

Modern slavery and human trafficking is one of the fastest growing criminal industries and one of the biggest human rights crises today, United Nations and government officials said. An estimated 40 million people were living in modern slavery around the world in 2016.

IPS

Syrian refugees in Turkey face backlash

Tensions in Turkey are rising amid concerns about competition for jobs and cultural differences. This has led to a rare unifying sentiment across political lines that Syrian refugees must eventually leave.

NBCNews.com

What is Syria’s future after eight years of war?

Al Jazeera

Africa needs cash, science to tackle climate

African countries must tackle climate change with a new economic model rooted in clean energy, forest protection and technology to support farmers. But they will need more investment and research to make that happen, leaders have said.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Vietnamese workers in Japan face risks

In Vietnam, unscrupulous recruiters and brokers often charge trainees exorbitant fees. Reported abuses in Japan include low and unpaid wages, excessive hours, violence and sexual harassment.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

HUMAN RIGHTS

ISIS calls for ‘revenge’ for New Zealand attacks

ISIS has called on its followers to retaliate for the terror attack against Muslims in New Zealand last week, in a rare, 44-minute audio message from one of its top figures.

The Independent

Why AI is still terrible at spotting violence online

CNN

Facebook has removed 1.5 million copies of the mosque attack video. New Zealand says it needs to do more

CNN

Tuk-tuk initiative to empower Srilankan women

A new transportation initiative aims to provide jobs and safeguard women in Sri Lanka, where a UN Population Fund study found that 90 percent of women endure sexual harassment on public transport.

Al Jazeera

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Kazakh leader resigns after three decades

Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has been Kazakhstan’s President since its independence from the Soviet Union, has announced his resignation. This comes weeks after he sacked the government citing economic failures.

BBC

Activist could be Slovakia’s first female leader

An environmental lawyer with no history in public office is poised to win the election for the presidency in Slovakia. Zuzana Caputova, an activist and anti-corruption candidate, captured 40 percent of the vote.

Quartz

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Mexican company producing cactus biofuel

Mexican company Nopalimex is harnessing the power of the prickly pear cactus to produce biofuel. Already a staple in Mexican diets, medicine and cosmetics, the “nopal” is pureed and mixed with manure to produce methane.

CNN

Company ‘grows’ biodegradable coffee cups

Telegraph.co.uk

New species of dinosaur found in Australia

Archaeologists have discovered fossils from a wallaby-size dinosaur that roamed the ancient rift valley between Australia and Antarctica during the Cretaceous period.

LiveScience

GLOBAL HEALTH

1/3 of USA’s uninsured can’t afford medication

The high price of prescription drugs is among USA’s top concerns. And a new government report has found that, one-third of uninsured Americans did not take their medicine as prescribed to try to lower their costs.

CNN

Why prescription drugs cost more: A graphic

Business Insider

Women with twin brother more likely to drop out

Women who have a non-identical twin brother are more likely to drop out of school or higher education than women who have a twin sister. These outcomes may be related to higher levels of testosterone in the uterus from their sibling.

New Scientist

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GOOD NEWS

Woman quits career to help disabled dogs

Exhausted and looking for something meaningful after a strenuous career, a Russian photographer decided to quit everything and pursue her childhood dream of rescuing dogs.

Oh my mag

Homeless refugee wins chess championship

A homeless eight-year-old Nigerian refugee won New York’s annual state-wide chess tournament, despite only learning how to play the game last year.

The Independent

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Indian tech billionaire gives $7.5B to charity

Azim Premji, the billionaire chairman of Wipro, is handing shares in the tech company worth nearly $7.5 billion to his philanthropic foundation in what may be India’s largest single charitable donation ever.

CNN

One in 10 wealthy donors likely to donate more

More than a year after the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 went into effect, a survey by Marts and Lundy found that 10 percent of wealthy donors plan to give more to charity, while 53 percent plan to give the same.

Philanthropy News Digest

ENVIRONMENT

California weather sees butterfly numbers soar

Following an alarming decline in California’s butterfly populations, Painted Lady butterflies are migrating through the state in numbers not seen since 2005, a result of California’s unusually wet winter.

EcoWatch

Climate change could produce toxic crops

Climate change threatens to poison the food supply of some of the world’s poorest people as crops respond to rising temperatures by pumping out dangerous chemicals.

The Independent

ECONOMIC EQUITY

Child care workers want to unionize daycares

A bill introduced by Assemblywoman Monique Limón, a Democrat from Santa Barbara in California, would allow self-employed child care workers who serve subsidized families to collectively bargain with the state.

Capital Public Radio

Necessity drives tech innovation in Ethiopia

Despite two decades of sustained economic growth, Ethiopia still has one of the lowest GDPs per capita in the world, but young Ethiopians are now turning to technology to tackle the challenges they face.

BBC

Young techie teaches Ethiopians to code

BBC

Photo of the Day

Education is the strongest predictor of marriage age in Ethiopia, so staying in school is key for Bayush (far left) and her friends from this photo taken in July, 2014. Partnered with the Government of Ethiopia, the UK Department for International Development (DFID)-funded Finote Hiwot program is helping at least 37,500 adolescent girls avoid child marriage in Ethiopia. (Photo by Jessica Lea/Department for International Development) Photo used under CC BY

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