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Awa, a traditional midwife in Burkina Faso, is seen telling her stories of childbirth at a community discussion about female genital mutilation in an attempt to help stop the violent practice. (Photo by Jessica Lea/DFID) Photo used under CC BY

Sudan’s bid to criminalize FGM sparks hope, caution

Sudan’s authorities are expected to outlaw female genital mutilation and set severe punishments. Millions of girls and women have been cut in countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia in what the WHO says is an “extreme form of discrimination” against women.

Associated Press

Thousands of Sudanese take to the streets to protest the ruling party

Al Jazeera

S. Sudan refugees tackle mental health crisis

Therapy is helping the masses forced over the South Sudan border to Uganda to cope, but funding shortfalls mean resources are becoming scarcer. As poverty and protracted violence intensify, rates of suicide increase.

Guardian

UN demands cease-fire in global conflict zones

The UN Security Council unanimously passed a resolution that demands an “immediate cessation of hostilities” in conflict zones around the world, due the COVID-19 epidemic. It is the first resolution related to the virus that the council has passed.

NPR

Sahel summit agrees need to intensify campaign against jihadists

Reuters

Virus can wipe out gains for women, UN warns

The coronavirus pandemic could wipe out “the modest progress” made on gender equality at work in recent decades with women globally at greater risk of losing their jobs, the International Labour Organization has warned.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Mothers forced out of garment factory jobs in India struggle to survive

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Congo women taken from their mothers by Belgian authorities seek justice

The Independent

Hundreds arrested as HK security law passes

China‘s controversial new national security law — tailor-made to bring Hong Kong’s massive pro-democracy movement to heel — came into full effect overnight, and by evening time police had arrested more than 300 protesters.

CBS News

HUMAN RIGHTS

Torture in Yemen’s jails may be war crimes

Arbitrary detentions, torture of inmates and deaths of detainees have soared during the last few years of the civil war, according to a report that found all parties responsible for human rights abuses that could be war crimes.

The Independent

US seizes ‘forced labor’ Chinese hair imports

The US has seized a shipment of human hair products from China, that it says was made by forced labour from children or prisoners.

BBC

Hong Kong’s new security law crackdown a warning for the west?

Deutsche Welle

China, pro-Beijing activists condemn foreign pressure over Hong Kong

CBC News

Montenegro legalizes same-sex civil unions

Montenegro is considered a predominantly conservative and male-dominated society, where the LGBT+ community has often faced rejection and harassment.

Deutsche Welle

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

‘Putin majority’ defies, denies rising discontent

In yet another win for Russian President Vladimir Putin, 67, a national referendum found that nearly 78% approve of him retaining power until 2036 at the stately age of 83. Reports say voter turnout was almost 68%.

Asia Times Online

Rivals Fatah, Hamas fight annexation

In a rare joint news conference, officials from the two groups said there was a national consensus against Israel’s controversial plan which has also been widely criticised by much of the international community.

Al Jazeera

Federal judge overturns Trump border rule

A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration’s rule requiring immigrants to first claim asylum in another country is illegal.

NBC

Oxfam condemns Greek asylum system

International NGO Oxfam has criticized Greece’s new asylum legislation, which it claims was put in place to undermine the rights of refugees. The humanitarian group is worried other EU states will follow suit.

Deutsche Welle

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Is the hydrogen tech ‘revolution’ hope or hype?

In the early 2000s, backers of hydrogen thought it would dominate the clean automobile market. But the promised “hydrogen highway” never materialized, for a couple of crucial reasons, experts warn.

BBC

Core of a gas planet seen for the first time

Astronomers have found a previously unseen type of object circling a distant star. It could be the core of a gas world like Jupiter, offering an unprecedented glimpse inside one of these giant planets.

BBC

Hundreds arrested as e-crime network cracked

A top-secret communications system used by criminals to trade drugs and guns has been “successfully penetrated”, says the National Crime Agency. Major crime figures were among over 800 Europe-wide arrests.

BBC

GLOBAL HEALTH

Pandemic exploits cracks in Chilean society

The virus exploited the cracks in Chilean society. The country now has the highest per capita infection rate of any major country — more than 10 times the rate in neighboring Argentina and twice the rate in Brazil.

NPR

Disabled people often forgotten in virus crisis

Deutsche Welle

Protests erupt against Africa’s COVID-19 trials

Protesters against Africa’s first COVID-19 vaccine trial burned their face masks as experts note a worrying level of resistance and misinformation around testing on the continent.

Associated Press

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Ronda Chapman):

Coronavirus has laid bare the racial fault lines in access to clean, safe water

Guardian

Column (Kevin Berry):

Applying the lessons of Ebola to the COVID-19 pandemic

The Hill

Column (Michelle Chikaonda):

Anti-Blackness is everywhere

Al Jazeera

Site edited by: Kristina Varganova, Catherine Lux, Ashley Nawn and Samantha Floyd.

GOOD NEWS

Long-shut factory helps COVID-struck Afghans

Seven years ago, Najibullah Seddiqi closed his oxygen factory, frustrated with power cuts and rampant corruption that kept him from getting contracts with hospitals. Today his factory offers free oxygen refills to those in need.

Associated Press

Photographer uses Photoshop to create socially distant class photo

Good Morning America

NONPROFIT & PHILANTHROPY

Nebraska man donates platelets over 700 times

An 89-year-old Sherman Hirsch, from Nebraska, is a regular at his local Red Cross, where he has donated his platelets over 700 times. After his first time donating, Hirsch began going in twice a month, every month.

Good Morning America

Friends in hugging video help raise funds

Two best friends who captured the hearts of millions after they went viral last year are now featured in a clothing campaign to help raise funds for charity.

People

7-year-old raises thousands to buy multicultural crayons and books

Good Morning America

ENVIRONMENT

Rapid warming of the South Pole sparks fears

The South Pole has been warming at more than three times the global average over the past 30 years, according to research led by Ohio University professor Ryan Fogt and OHIO alumnus Kyle Clem.

ScienceDaily

Hundreds of elephants dead in mass die-off

Over 350 elephants have died in northern Botswana in a mysterious mass die-off described as a “conservation disaster”. A cluster of deaths was reported in the Okavango Delta with 169 elephants dead.

Guardian

Amazon rainforest fires increase rapidly

The number of fires in the Amazon jumped 20 percent this June compared to June last year, raising concerns that the rainforest could see a repeat of last year’s destructive fires.

CBS News

Rainforest Alliance to help ethical growers

The Rainforest Alliance will bolster its food certification scheme to ensure growers and brands make better use of technology to tackle climate change, respect human rights and invest in sustainable farming

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Petrol sold to Nigeria ‘dirtier’ than black market

Black market fuel made from stolen oil in rudimentary “bush” refineries hidden deep in the the Niger delta is less polluting than the diesel and petrol that Europe exports to Nigeria, new laboratory analysis has found.

Guardian

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

Corporate America criticized for diversity data

American companies are coming under increasing pressure from investors to publicly disclose information about diversity among employees in the wake of nationwide protests against racial discrimination.

Reuters

African activists fight to ‘decolonize streets’

Campaigners have asked Uganda’s parliament to order the removal of monuments to British colonialists and to rename streets commemorating imperial military forces.

Guardian

Photo of the Day

Woman reading a book in the light from a stained glass window in the Winter prayer hall of Nasir-ol-molk Mosque, one of the old mosques of Shiraz. The mosque is located in the Gawd-i Arabān quarter,Iran. (Photo by Yare Zaman) Photo used under CC BY

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