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A community worker poses with returnee migrants. Many vulnerable women who leave home with dreams of earning money in the Middle East as domestic workers face abuse and may endure a harrowing reality. (Photo by Anna Dubuis/DFID) Photo used under CC BY

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Maids in Middle East risk extreme abuse for better life

Rights groups say more than 38 percent of domestic workers do not receive their salaries on time, many are deceived by employers who promise to pay them at the end of a contracted period, but never do. Some are owed years of wages they may never receive.

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WTOL

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Former slaves are key to warning women of trafficking risks

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Reuters

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Mauritania failing to tackle pervasive slavery

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Guardian

US nursing homes misuse antipsychotics

Nursing homes across the U.S. are giving antipsychotic drugs to residents with dementia to control their behaviour, despite rules against the misuse of drugs as so-called chemical restraints, a new report claims.

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The Independent

Israel orders deportation of African refugees

Israeli authorities have begun distributing deportation notices to thousands of African refugees and migrants, who have been threatened with jail if they do not leave the country within 60 days.

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The Independent

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Hungary closes borders to most asylum seekers

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NPR

Syrian refugees slowly start coming home

A small number of refugees have come back to Syria from among the more than 5.4 million who fled their homeland since the civil war erupted in 2011. So far, they are just a trickle, numbering in the tens of thousands.

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Thousands of Syrian refugees at risk if they return

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Al Jazeera

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Turkish border guards shoot at Syrian refugees

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CNN

Campaigners in Kenya oppose sex ed plan

Plans by the Kenyan government to expand coverage of sex education in primary schools have been criticised for encouraging promiscuity among young people.

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Guardian

Much of Puerto Rico is still dark and damaged

Approximately 450,000 of Puerto Rico’s 1.5 million electricity customers are still without power, and those who do have electricity suffer frequent blackouts.

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The Atlantic

HUMAN RIGHTS

Arab refugees Germany denounce far-right

Arab refugees and Germans carrying pro-immigrant and anti-fascism placards marched in Cottbus to denounce attempts by far-right groups to stoke tension in the eastern city after two knife attacks by Syrian teenagers.

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Reuters

Bringing #MeToo to the West Bank

A young Palestinian-American is the driving force behind a nascent #MeToo movement in this patriarchal corner of the world, selling T-shirts, hoodies and denim jackets with the slogan “Not Your Habibti (darling)” from her perch in a West Bank square.

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ABC News

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Pentagon sees broader role for nuclear weapons

Escalating global threats from Russia to North Korea mean the U.S. military’s regional commanders must update war plans to incorporate the use -- in the most dire circumstances -- of nuclear weapons, according to the Pentagon’s latest Nuclear Posture Review.

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Bloomberg

Zuma dares SA’s ruling party to fire him

South African President Jacob Zuma is in a head-to-head struggle with the top leaders of his own party after he defied their call to step down.

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Bloomberg

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Ruling ANC holds urgent meeting to discuss Zuma’s future as president

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Technology will further widen gender pay gap

The gulf between men and women at work – in both pay and status – is likely to widen unless action is taken to tackle inequality in high-growth sectors such as technology, say researchers at this week’s World Economic Forum summit in Davos.

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Guardian

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Gender pay gap: What you need to know

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BBC

Physicians urge Congress to kill ‘right to try’

Dozens of doctors, medical ethicists, and lawyers are warning Congress that legislation to allow Americans with life-threatening conditions access to unapproved, experimental drugs risks harming patients’ health.

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PBS

GLOBAL HEALTH

Attention-seeking is defining need of our times

The urge to belong is universal. So would a better understanding of it help tackle loneliness – and explain why stalkers, spree killers and jihadists turn their pain on others?

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Guardian

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Singing your heart out could make you happier

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ScienceDaily

India wants to give .5B people free health care

India has announced a sweeping plan to give half a billion poor Indians free access to health care, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks to address rising demands for greater economic and social protections.

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Rejuvenation Media

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GOOD NEWS

Grandmother fights gun violence with chess

A Chicago grandma is trying to reduce gun violence by introducing neighborhood children to chess.

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A first: Chess championships for players with disabilities in S. Africa

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South Africa: Good News

NONPROFIT AND PHILANTHROPY

Sexual harassment strife ensnares nonprofits

Nonprofits have often been depicted on the side of women’s advocacy, though recent reports out of the Humane Society of the U.S. and Presidents Club in the UK have shown that nonprofits are not above such behaviors.

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NonProfit Times

The world class poverty in America’s economy

A significant number of Americans are quietly living at a level of poverty that rivals any in the world. The need appears to be so great that one Nobel Prize-winning economist has been prompted to shift his philanthropic priorities.

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Nonprofit Quarterly

ENVIRONMENT

Cape Town’s water crisis highlights inequality

“Day Zero” is approaching as South Africa’s showcase city of Cape Town prepares to turn off most water taps amid the worst drought in a century. Tensions among the four million residents are highlighting a class divide.

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CBC News

How to reduce heat extremes by 2-3°C

Research published in Nature Geoscience has found that climate engineering that modifies the properties of the land surface in highly populated areas and agricultural areas over North American, Europe and Asia could reduce extreme temperatures there by up to 2-3°C.

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ScienceDaily

ECONOMY

UN urged to end offshore tax evasion

The United Nations has been urged by the Tax Justice Network to coordinate a global effort to end offshore tax evasion and corruption, amid warnings that the UK is continuing to insulate its overseas territories from financial transparency.

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Guardian

US, not China, a big danger to Asia’s markets

Asia’s economies may be increasingly bound to China, but the risks to the region’s markets may be more linked to the U.S. as Chinese policy makers make progress in arresting a record run-up in the country’s debt.

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Bloomberg

N. Korea violated UN sanctions to earn $200M

North Korea infringed U.N. sanctions to rake in almost $200 million from banned commodity exports last year. A group of independent U.N. monitors found that Pyongyang had been providing weapons to Syria and Myanmar.

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A farm worker cleans lettuce crops, in Chimaltenango, Guatemala. (Photo by Maria Fleischmann / World Bank) Photo used under CC BY

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