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An Indian farmer on his pepper farm. About half of Indians work in agriculture, and two-thirds live in rural areas. The Indian government sets minimum prices for many commodities, but farmers often have to take out loans from state banks and private lenders to make ends meet. A suicide epidemic has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of Indian farmers over the past two decades, as food prices drop and pesticides and fertilizers get more expensive. (Photo by Bread for the World) Photo used under CC BY

Farmers in rural India struggling to survive

Farmers have taken to the streets across India in recent months, staging giant protests and marches, demanding the prime minister forgive their debts and fix higher prices for produce.

NPR

Uighurs urge China to prove relatives are alive

Members of the Uighur ethnic group launched a campaign under the hashtag #MeTooUyghur asking the Chinese government to release videos proving their relatives, thought to be in internment centers, are alive.

TRT World

China releases video of Uighur poet said to have died in custody

Guardian

Environmental crisis imperils world economy

Scientists warn that a potentially deadly combination of factors including climate change, mass loss of species, topsoil erosion, forest felling and acidifying oceans has reached a critical stage and threatens to destabilize society and the global economy.

BBC

Ebola vaccine offered in trade for sex in DRC

An unparalleled Ebola vaccination program in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has become engulfed in allegations of impropriety, amid claims that women are being asked for sexual favors in exchange for treatment.

Guardian

Brazil books to end feminism, gay references

Brazil’s president and his senior officials have vowed to revise school textbooks to remove references to feminism, homosexuality and violence against women.

The Independent

Statelessness, an acute problem in Africa

Africa has one of the largest stateless populations in the world. However, governments have only recently started to recognize it as a serious problem.

Deutsche Welle

Africa welcomes refugees but freedom, jobs needed, aid groups say

Thomson Reuters Foundation

HUMAN RIGHTS

Anti-Semitic attacks rocket by 74% in France

The number of anti-Semitic acts in France rocketed 74 percent last year as France’s interior minister warned the phenomenon was “spreading like a poison.”

The Telegraph

UN slams US force-feeding immigrant detainees

Amid concerns over the force-feeding of immigrant detainees at a “processing centre” in the US, the UN said forcibly feeding prisoners on hunger strike is “inhuman” and may amount to torture in violation of a UN convention.

NDTV

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Nigerian economy grows as election nears

Nigeria’s economy grew in 2018 at its fastest pace since a recession two years earlier, data showed, just days before a presidential election in which boosting growth has been a major campaign issue.

Reuters

Does Nigeria‘s ’generation democracy’ want to vote?

BBC

Russia considers ‘unplugging’ from internet

Russia is considering disconnecting from the global internet briefly, as part of a test of its cyber-defenses. Data passing between Russian citizens and organizations will stay inside the nation, not routed internationally.

BBC

Internet freedom expert says Russia lacks the means to pull off an isolated Web like China’s

Meduza

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Malawi women train as solar engineers in India

Eight women from rural Malawi travelled to India to train as solar engineers. Now they are lighting the way for their communities, in a country where just 10 percent of households are powered by electricity.

Guardian

Scientists develop way to take insulin orally

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a way for diabetics to administer insulin orally, potentially doing away with the need for painful daily needle pokes in the near future.

ABC News

GLOBAL HEALTH

African leaders launch health financing initiative

African Heads of State gathered to launch a new initiative aimed at increasing commitments for health, improving the impact of spending and ensuring the achievement of universal health coverage across Africa’s 55 countries.

Independent.co.ug

Poverty not an obstacle to excellent healthcare in Africa, says Bill Gates

Business Day

Heavily processed foods linked to early death

Eating a lot of heavily processed foods is linked to a risk of earlier death, according to a study that involved more than 44,000 people over a period of seven years.

Guardian

How to identify ‘ultra-processed’ foods – the grub that’s linked to death

Yahoo! News

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GOOD NEWS

Cops, kids trade snowballs amid rare snowfall

Police officers in Duvall, Washington, grabbed a tactical shield and engaged in some fun as a major winter storm blanketed the state.

K5News

5-year-old opens library in a village with none

A five-year-old resident of Alpha, Illinois, a village that does not have a library of its own, recently solved this problem within his own community by opening a Little Free Library in his front yard.

Mental Floss

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

US colleges, universities raised $46.7B in 2018

Contributions to U.S. colleges and universities reached a record $46.73 billion in fiscal year 2018, a 4.6 percent year-over-year increase on an inflation-adjusted basis, a report finds.

Philanthropy News Digest

Putting climate in every nonprofit mission

A new report from NASA provides nonprofits with red flags and warning signs, relating to the work they are doing, and how they may have to change. Many nonprofits are already including climate change in their missions.

Nonprofit Quarterly

Special section:

This scary map shows how climate change will transform your city

Wired

ENVIRONMENT

Solar farms of the future may float on water

Experts say it would be better if new photovoltaic panels were placed on reservoirs and other bodies of water, as it could generate large amounts of electricity without taking up valuable real estate.

NBCNews.com

Scientists look to DNA to save rare US fish

Scientists in Maine are using DNA to try to preserve the remaining populations of a fish that lives in 14 lakes and ponds in the state and nowhere else in the continental US.

ABC News

ECONOMIC EQUITY

Is Ghana the world’s next textile factory?

Investors are showing growing interest in Africa as a textile manufacturing location. Low wages, steady growth and youthful populations are among the reasons companies are looking towards the continent.

Deutsche Welle

Businesses tackle cultural appropriation

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Japan’s cities concerned about foreign labor

Nearly half of Japan’s cities are concerned about how to appropriately deal with foreign workers as they prepare for an influx starting this spring due to a new government policy aimed at addressing a chronic labor shortage.

Japan Times

Photo of the Day

Two boys on the street in the Asokoro area of Abuja, Nigeria. The boys had been salvaging scraps from nearby construction sites to use or sell. The scrap industry abounds in Nigeria where many see it as a business opportunity or a way to make a quick buck. (Photo by Mark Fischer) Photo used under CC BY

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