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A young boy near the Laos-China border. Government policies have paved the way for investments in mining and agriculture in Laos, but have placed greater pressure on land and impoverished communities in a country where more than three-fourths of the population is engaged in agriculture, the UN said. (Photo by M M) Photo used under CC BY

Poor uprooted as Laos focuses on big projects

The Laos government has prioritized big infrastructure projects including dams, railways lines and mines that have benefited few people and uprooted the poor from their land, said the UN’s top independent expert on poverty.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Little Laos struggles to swallow Chinese debt

UCA News

S. Korea fails to stop record slide in birth rate

In South Korea, the government has spent billions of dollars trying to boost the country’s sliding birth rate, but the country’s fertility rate hit another record low last year, falling below one for the first time.

Channel NewsAsia

Millions go hungry in crop-exporting Pakistan

The International Food Policy Research Institute, a poverty and hunger watchdog, estimates that one in five of Pakistan’s more than 200 million people are malnourished.

Channel NewsAsia

White people’s diets are killing environment

Caucasian populations are disproportionately contributing to climate change through their eating habits, which uses up more food — and emits more greenhouse gases — than the typical diets of black and Latino communities.

New York Post

Chinese medicine drives animal part trafficking

Reuters

Extreme weather affected 62M people in 2018

Extreme weather last year hit 62 million people worldwide and forced 2 million people to relocate, as man-made climate change worsened, the UN’s weather agency reports.

CBS News

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Climate change worsens pollen season

EcoWatch

Malaysians urge accountability for graves

Almost four years after the discovery in Malaysia of 139 graves of Rohingya and Bangladeshis, authorities have not prosecuted any Malaysians for the deaths, and groups are demanding accountability.

Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

Besieged, Google pulls conversion therapy app

An app that advised people on “recovery from same-sex attraction” has been removed from Google’s Play store amid public outcry.

Daily Mail

Quebec may bill ban hijabs in public sector

Canada’s Quebec has introduced legislation that will ban public sector employees from wearing religious symbols during work hours, a controversial move that critics say targets Muslim women who wear hijabs.

Al Jazeera

UK limit on aid to slavery victims unlawful

In the UK, a high court judge ruled that Home Office policy to cut off statutory support to people after they have been identified as victims of slavery is potentially unlawful.

Guardian

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Trump threatens to shut Mexico border

In response to a continuing surge of migrants at the US–Mexico border, President Donald Trump said he is likely to close the border if Mexico does not do more to stop migrants reaching the United States.

BBC

Australia plans tough social media law

In the aftermath of the New Zealand attacks, the Australian government plans to introduce tough anti-terror legislation to prevent people from “weaponizing social media platforms.”

Al Jazeera

Facebook considers live-stream restrictions

BBC

Google signs deal with Cuba to boost internet

US tech giant Google has signed a deal with Cuban operator ETECSA to explore ways of boosting internet service on the island, despite diplomatic tensions between the nations.

Forbes

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Mutation found in woman who feels no pain

A genetic mutation identified in a British woman who feels no pain could help researchers find new ways of treating pain and accelerating wound healing in others.

BBC

Woman with two wombs gives birth twice

A 20-year-old Bangladeshi woman gave birth to twins, 26 days after giving birth to her first child. According to her gynecologist, she hadn’t had an ultrasound, so it was missed.

CNN

World first as living HIV patient donates kidney in US

BBC

GLOBAL HEALTH

Kenya steps up AIDS battle with factory

Kenya is constructing a $100 million AIDS drug factory, the largest in Africa, that will bring 1,000 jobs to the country and reduce the reliance of almost half of the continent’s countries on European drug imports.

Guardian

Cholera cases jump in Mozambique

Al Jazeera

Contraceptive jewelry, the next birth control?

Researchers have developed a technique for administering contraceptive hormones through backings that have been placed on items of jewelry including earrings, watches and rings.

The Independent

Columns And Op-Ed

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The European far right has its eye on education

Al Jazeera

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Barclays funds climate breakdown. We are determined to make it stop.

Guardian

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Confronting racism is not about the needs and feelings of white people

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

Thai park rangers rescue baby elephants

Park rangers in northeastern Thailand rescued six baby elephants who were trapped in a mud hole and separated from their parents.

The Independent

Cayman Islands legalizes gay marriage

In a ruling that could have implications for LGBT+ rights on other British overseas territories, a judge declared a ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional.

The Independent

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Women fighting for gender equality In NGOs

As it’s still Women’s History Month, it only seems fitting to turn our attention to some of the women who are instrumental to global gender equality activism and who are some of the key activists fighting for gender policy reform in NGOs.

Forbes

Story behind Special Olympics controversy

After bipartisan outrage on both sides of the political aisle in Congress, President Donald Trump overruled his own education secretary this week and cancelled a budget-cutting proposal to eliminate $17.6 million in federal funding for the Special Olympics.

CBS News

ENVIRONMENT

New York State bans plastic bags

Next March, New York State will become the second US state to ban plastic bags outright, forbidding retailers from providing shoppers with single-use plastic bags.

National Geographic

New Mexico battles dark side of renewable energy

Guardian

Sweden recycles 99 percent of its waste

Sweden is currently recycling a total of 99 percent of its locally-produced waste. The policy of zero waste has ceased rubbish within the country, and now Sweden gets paid by other countries for importing their waste.

Wonderful Engineering

Investors push climate accountability

As climate action gains traction, a new wave of corporate shareholders is trying to use the tools of capitalism to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for climate change.

Mother Jones

ECONOMIC EQUITY

India party chief vows minimum basic income

India’s main opposition party, the Congress Party, will give $1,045 to each of India’s poorest families every year if voted back into power, its chief said, in what he called a “final assault on poverty.”

Al Jazeera

UK firms lagging on gender pay gap reporting

With just one week to the reporting deadline, nearly two-thirds of UK companies still have not disclosed the average difference between what they pay male and female employees.

BBC

Photo of the Day

A girl walks down a road at sunset next to an Internally Displaced Persons camp near the town of Jowhar in the Middle Shabelle region of Somalia in December 2013. Fighting between clans, as well as flooding, displaced more than 12,000 people near the town with many seeking temporary shelter near an African Union military camp in the area. (Photo by UN Photo/Tobin Jones) Photo used under CC BY

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