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Water delivery in the southern Indian city of Chennai. India’s water crisis is far from even-handed - the elite in Delhi and most other parts of the country remain unaffected while the poor scramble for supplies every day. (Photo by Akshay Davis) Photo used under CC BY

India’s water shortage highlights inequality

Delhi’s main government district and the army cantonment areas get about 100 gallons of water per person per day but residents of poor neighborhoods on average receive only 10 gallons for each resident per day.

India Today

17% of Indian cities and towns face water shortage

Times of India

UN blasts India, Pakistan over Kashmir inaction

The UN rights office hammered India and Pakistan for failing to improve the situation in Kashmir, while renewing calls for an international probe into violations in the disputed Himalayan region.

TRT World

Philippines drug killings near 30K; rights groups

Extrajudicial killings in the Philippines – many if not most of them committed by police – are the result of the country’s brutal war on drugs.

ABC Australia

Amnesty International is calling for a UN probe into the Philippine drug war

TIME

UN rights chief condemns US border camps

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has condemned the “undignified and damaging” conditions in which migrants and refugees are being held at the US border.

The Independent

One climate crisis disaster happening a week

Climate crisis disasters are happening at the rate of one a week, though most draw little international attention and work is urgently needed to prepare developing countries for the profound impacts.

Guardian

Europe’s latest heat wave is a ‘new normal’

PRI

Philippines residents suffer as plastics burn

Residents of Valenzuela city have been plagued by foul odors, which they claim come from a neighboring recycling plant and allege emissions from the plant have caused several residents to develop a lingering cough.

South China Morning Post

HUMAN RIGHTS

Crime kills more people than armed conflicts

Far more people are killed in homicides around the world than in conflict zones, a sweeping UN study has found. The rates of women being killed due to domestic violence is on the rise.

Deutsche Welle

Outrage over ‘femicides’ draws hundreds to the streets of Paris

YouTube

Drought-hit Ethiopia dishes free school meals

As poor rains cut harvests, driving up food prices and urban hunger in cities, authorities in the Ethiopian city of Addis Ababa join charities in feeding hungry children.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Centre-right regains power in Greek elections

Greece’s centre-right opposition party New Democracy has won the nation’s snap general election. They have promised to lower taxes and privatize services in a country still feeling the effects of the 2008 financial crisis.

BBC

Greek debt crisis: ‘I wasn’t paid for two years’

BBC

Venezuela’s law has crumbled under Maduro

The rule of law has crumbled in Venezuela under the government of Nicolás Maduro, which has usurped the powers of the legislative and judicial branches, international legal watchdog, International Commission of Jurists said.

Guardian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Apollo 11 mission infected earth with germs?

A mistake made during the Apollo 11 moon landing mission exactly 50 years ago this month could have brought lunar germs to the Earth, astronauts have revealed.

The Independent

‘Puppy eyes’ evolved for dog communication

Centuries of domestication have unintentionally yet radically reshaped dogs’ eyebrow anatomy, making their faces easily readable to people.

National Geographic

GLOBAL HEALTH

Malaria surges back in crisis-hit Venezuela

Malaria is rapidly spreading in El Tucuco, as in the rest of Venezuela, a country that could once boast of being the first to eradicate the disease in 1961. The reason: Fumigation missions by the government stopped.

Medical Xpress

Artificial skin trial aims to help acid victims

In Pakistan, the Jinnah Burn and Reconstructive Surgery Center is developing a cost-effective form of artificial skin that could revolutionize the lives of hundreds of Pakistani women who suffer acid attacks each year.

CNN

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GOOD NEWS

UK gets its first female Muslim football referee

Once a refugee, Jawahir Roble’s love of football was forged on the streets of war-torn Mogadishu. Now she is training and inspiring young female footballers in the UK, as the first female Muslim referee in British football.

Guardian

Nigerian school accepts plastic for tuition fee

Thanks to a recent partnership with Africa Cleanup Initiative, an NGO with focus on sustainability, Morit International School in Nigeria now accepts plastic bottles in exchange for school tuition fees.

CNN

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

GM donates $2.7M after auctioning Corvette

General Motors auctioned its last C7 Corvette for a cool $2.7 million and donated the proceeds to a New York charity that builds mortgage-free smart homes for catastrophically injured service members.

Autonews

NGO ship defies Salvini again, docks in Sicily

Forty-one refugees and migrants disembarked overnight at the port of Lampedusa after a charity vessel that rescued them off Libya defied an attempt by Italy’s interior minister, Matteo Salvini, to close ports to NGO boats.

Guardian

ENVIRONMENT

Alaskan glaciers melting fastest in centuries

The U.S. State of Alaska is in the middle of an unprecedented heatwave, and scientists say there are more alarming signs of global warming. The state’s glaciers are melting at a rate not seen in hundreds of years.

YouTube

Trump speech to tout environment record; green groups scoff

Reuters

Spy satellites reveal extent of Himalayan glacier loss

BBC

Hundreds of sharks, rays tangled in plastic

Hundreds of sharks and rays are dying after getting tangled in drifting “ghost nets” and plastic waste, according to new research. However, scientists have warned that the true number could be far higher.

The Independent

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Japan’s working moms face child care crisis

The government of conservative Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has spent years encouraging women to join the workforce. When they do, they are faced with shortage of day care facilities, no flexibility in work hours.

CNN

Japanese politician brings baby to assembly sparking debate

Refinery29

Brexit urging UK firms to cut investment, hiring

British companies are more worried now about Brexit than since the 2016 referendum decision to leave the European Union and they plan to reduce investment and hiring, a survey of chief financial officers has showed.

Reuters

Dutch rail compensates Holocaust survivors

At a ceremony in Utrecht, the head of the Dutch state rail company announced compensation for survivors and families of the 100,000 Holocaust victims sent on Dutch trains to Nazi death camps.

Deutsche Welle

Photo of the Day

A woman loads plastic containers on her donkey to fetch water in Jijiga, Ethiopia in August 2015. According to USAID, in Ethiopia, women and girls may have to walk hours or days to find clean drinking water for their households. (Photo by Michael Swan) Photo used under CC BY

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