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The death of Sarah Everard has gripped the United Kingdom and much of the rest of the world. The case has set off calls for action on male violence against women and girls, and a change in the dialogue that surrounds it. (Photo by Ben Terrett) Photo used under CC BY

UK murder prompts debate over gender-based violence

The Sarah Everard story is a tragedy but not a surprise: a woman kidnapped, her body discovered, and a police officer — authority women are told they can trust — suspected of her murder. Everard’s death sparked a debate on how women can feel safe in cities.

Vox

UK police recognizes misogyny as a hate crime

CNN

Japan’s gay marriage ban ruled unconstitutional

A court in Japan ruled that the country’s failure to recognize gay marriages is unconstitutional. “Legal benefits stemming from marriages should equally benefit both homosexuals and heterosexuals,” the district court said.

CBS News

Asian Americans grieve in wake of violent attacks

Asian Americans were already worn down by a year of pandemic-fueled racist attacks when a white gunman was charged with killing eight people, primarily Asian women, in Atlanta. Hundreds of Asian Americans turned to social media to air their anger and hopelessness.

Associated Press

Anti-Asian American hate incidents surge in the US

Deutsche Welle

White supremacy, hate are haunting Asian Americans

CNN

Pandemic pushes 32M Indians into poverty

Financial woes brought on by the coronavirus pandemic have pushed about 32 million Indians out of the middle class, undoing years of economic gains, a report showed, while job losses pushed millions into poverty.

Reuters

India struggles to meet COVID vaccine demand

India, one of the world’s largest producers of coronavirus vaccines, is struggling to meet its export commitments. Its largest manufacturer says doses intended for the UK, Nepal could be put on hold.

BBC

Coronavirus forces hard choices in Sierra Leone

Guardian

Nationwide COVID-19 website is under works

NBCNews.com

HUMAN RIGHTS

Gujarat’s land-grabbing law hurts women, poor

A new law to curb illegal land occupation in the western Indian state of Gujarat is hurting the urban poor, women and lower-caste Dalits, land rights groups said, with thousands facing eviction and loss of their livelihoods.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Deadly fate of ‘disappeared’ women in Peru

UN called violence against women across the world during lockdowns a “shadow pandemic”. A total of 138 femicides were reported by the authorities in Peru in 2020, but over 5,521 women were officially recorded as missing.

Guardian

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

Russia vents as Biden calls Putin a ‘killer’

President Vladimir Putin has brushed aside comments by US President Joe Biden, who said he thought the Russian leader was a killer. German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas suggested that Biden’s frankness was understandable.

Deutsche Welle

Myanmar faces isolation amid tight restrictions

Myanmar faced increasing isolation as further restrictions on internet services hampered the ability of opponents of military rule to organize and report on violence, but protesters still rallied in defiance of a deadly crackdown.

Reuters

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

New Dead Sea Scrolls discovered after 60 years

A new set of Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient fragments of biblical texts dating back almost 2,000 years and thought to have been hidden during a Jewish revolt against Rome, have been found in the West Bank.

NBCNews.com

Where did Mars’s liquid water go?

Mars once had water flowing over the surface, but it disappeared billions of years ago. A new study suggests that in addition to being lost to space, much of the water could have been trapped in minerals in the planet’s crust.

National Geographic

GLOBAL HEALTH

Palestinians get 60k vaccines through WHO

The Palestinian Authority it will receive around 60,000 coronavirus vaccine doses over the next 48 hours, the first shipment provided by a World Health Organization partnership aimed at helping poor countries.

Associated Press

Morocco vaccinations excludes undocumented

Morocco is further ahead with its COVID-19 vaccination program than any other African country, but undocumented migrants are not a part of its plans, potentially undermining efforts to come to grips with the disease.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

India’s quest to make disease drugs affordable

Parents whose only hope was finding foreign sponsorship or a clinical trial are now looking for homegrown breakthroughs.

Guardian

Increase in crystal meth in Zimbabwe

A gram of crystal meth costs $12 – a steep cost for most users in the townships and equivalent to a week’s rent on a room in a township.

Guardian

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Eleanor Gordon):

Peace-building suffers during pandemic obsession

Asia Times Online

Column (Nesrine Malik):

When my family in Sudan caught COVID, the sheer injustice of fate sank in

Guardian

Column (Nabil Salih):

Baghdad: A solitary walk through a crime scene

Al Jazeera

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GOOD NEWS

‘Wonder Woman’ speaks on domestic violence

“Wonder Woman” has called the global fight against domestic violence “a battle between life and death.” Actress Gal Gadot, who portrays the heroine, joined the U.S and Google to tout new weapons in that battle.

CBS News

Community surprises little boy with parade to celebrate his last day of chemo

Good Morning America

Kid CEO empowers Black girls to embrace hair

At just 9 years old, Zoe Oli is already behind Beautiful Curly Me, a fledgling business that hopes to make a change for young Black girls around the country with its line of Black dolls with curly and braided hair.

People

Zimbabwe‘s 16-year-old motocross champion on ’beating the boys’

BBC

NONPROFIT & PHILANTHROPY

Nonprofit helps teens transform their streets

It’s no secret St. Louis is riddled with vacant and run-down buildings. The empty properties are eyesores that attract crime and drive down property values. But there are a number of groups working to turn that around.

KSDK

Doctor cares for protesting farmers in India

Dr. Swaiman Singh boarded a flight to India last December to provide free medical services for protesting farmers. His plan was to stay for a week, months later, he’s still there with no plans to leave.

CNN

California teen to swim 25-mile marathon to fight food insecurity

ABC 7

ENVIRONMENT

10M+ displaced by climate disasters in 6 mos

About 10.3 million people were displaced by climate change-induced events such as flooding and droughts in the last six months, the majority of them in Asia.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Syria’s 10 yr war leaves environmental legacy

Charting environmental degradation in most areas of Syria was not possible until recently. The security situation makes gathering data on the ground impossible in many regions.

Time

Nigeria’s soilless farming pioneer

Deutsche Welle

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

US terrorism sponsor list halts Cuba banking

Former President Trump’s move to put Cuba on the U.S. terrorism sponsor list while in office threw up fresh obstacles to international banking with the island, according to Havana-based businessmen and diplomats.

Reuters

Yemen conflict escalates as famine looms

The United Nations warned that an offensive by Houthi rebels in Yemen has escalated the nearly six-year conflict in the Arab world’s poorest nation as it “speeds towards a massive famine.”

Associated Press

Photo of the Day

Brazil’s government has initiated its COVID vaccination campaign. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) has discovered that Pfizer employed “high-level bullying” against Brazil and Argentina during negotiations to acquire vaccines, including requesting the nations put sovereign assets as collateral for payments. (Photo by Governo do Estado de São Paulo) Photo used under CC BY

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