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A protester stands next to a homeless woman with a placard reading “We want a cure for hunger” in the center of Recife, state of Pernambuco, Brazil, on June 20, 2013. Since then, malnutrition levels across Latin America have only deteriorated, leaving many on the brink of starvation. (Photo by Sebástian Freire) Photo used under CC BY

Hunger, diseases threaten 16M people in S. America

Latin America and the Caribbean are expected to have a 269% rise in the number of people with “severe food insecurity”, according to the WFP. That means that 16 million people will not know where their next meal is coming from, up from 4.3 million one year ago.

CBS News

Mass starvation predicted due to economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic

NBC

Brazil virus payout cuts poverty to least in decades

ABC News

Yazidi children ‘abandoned’ after ISIS captivity

Child survivors of Islamic State captivity have been left to fend for themselves when dealing with lasting trauma, Amnesty International has said. Many suffer from fits of anger, flashbacks and have persisting health problems.

Guardian

Why did the coronavirus launch a global outbreak

The WHO declared COVID-19 a “public health emergency of international concern.” The outbreak has spread worldwide, infecting more than 16 million people and killing more than 650,000. What about this virus made it the one to spark a global pandemic?

NPR

Virus misinformation proves highly contagious

As the world races to find a COVID-19 vaccine, there is seemingly no antidote in sight for the burgeoning outbreak of virus conspiracy theories, hoaxes, anti-mask myths and sham cures.

Associated Press

Measles vaccination disruptions risk 80M lives

Tens of millions of children around the world have been denied life-saving vaccines against measles in both rich and poor countries due to COVID-19 disruptions, with fears of further outbreaks this year.

Guardian

Measles stalks Central African Republic in shadow of novel coronavirus

Guardian

N. Korean women tortured, raped in detention

North Korean women detained in prison camps suffered from torture, rape and other forms of “multiple and serious” violence by security and police officials, a U.N. human rights report said, citing accounts from over 100 women.

Reuters

Legal loopholes allow human trafficking to thrive across the globe

Deutsche Welle

HUMAN RIGHTS

Migrants face violence by African officials

A new UNHCR report on migrants who braved deadly land routes to Libya has found that government officials in the African countries they crossed were responsible for nearly half of all cases of physical violence against them.

Associated Press

Afghan women demand their own identity

Women’s rights campaigners have for years pushed to be named on official documents including their children’s birth certificates, which like Afghan identity documents carry only the name of a person’s father.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Inside Baltimore’s human trafficking industry

Baltimore, Maryland is a hotspot for human trafficking, according to experts. Survivors of sex trafficking and those who investigate it in the city share their stories.

Al Jazeera

Land rights defenders killings surge worldwide

At least 212 people were killed last year while defending their land from being taken over by industry, Global Witness has said, making 2019 the deadliest year since the advocacy group began compiling data in 2012.

Al Jazeera

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

Yemen’s separatists may yield on self-rule

Yemen’s leading separatist group will abandon its aspirations for self-rule to implement a stalled peace deal brokered by Saudi Arabia — a step toward closing a dangerous rift between nominal allies in the five-year war.

ABC News

S. African virus corruption puts ‘lives at risk’

South Africa’s COVID-19 response is marred by corruption allegations around its historic $26 billion economic relief package, as the country with the world’s fifth highest number of COVID-19 cases braces for more.

Associated Press

Ukraine begins ceasefire with rebel forces

A ceasefire backed by Putin and Zelenskiy has gone into effect in Ukraine. The reconciliation attempt marks the latest in a series of failed peace efforts between government forces and the pro-Russian rebels.

Deutsche Welle

Protests in Iraq continue as anger over services grows

Al Jazeera

Colombian guerrillas expand control amid virus

Armed groups in this violence-fraught nation of 50 million are imposing new levels of control during the coronavirus outbreak and enforcing some of the strictest lockdown measures in the world – with harsh penalties for violators.

The Independent

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Indian state hunts for plasma for virus patients

When doctors in a flood-ravaged Indian state urgently sought plasma of a particular blood type for a COVID-19 patient this month, health officials sent a boat for a marooned donor who had recovered from the disease weeks ago.

Reuters

Kelp found off Scotland dates back 16K years

Scientists have discovered kelp off the coast of Scotland, Ireland and France that has survived since the last ice age, nearly 16,000 years ago.

BBC

This punk band is made up entirely of robots

CNN

GLOBAL HEALTH

Hidden coronavirus deaths in Somalia

Fewer than 100 people have died of COVID-19 in Somalia. But BBC Africa Eye has found that cemeteries are filling up fast in the country, whose healthcare system has been devastated by three decades of conflict.

BBC

Italian island spared from COVID outbreak

ABC News

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Fred Jones):

A pandemic is no time to undermine public education

The Hill

Column (Damaris Matoke-Muhia):

More women should lead Africa’s coronavirus response

Al Jazeera

Column (James Millward):

The Uighurs’ suffering deserves targeted solutions, not anti-Chinese posturing

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

Office turned into virus ward for India’s poor

An Indian businessman who recovered from coronavirus has converted his office into an 85-bed facility to provide free treatment for the poor with government assistance.

Guardian

Young Dallas bakers pay it forward

NBC DFW

Hockey players rollerblade across country

University of Massachusetts Boston teammates Andrew Walker and Jacob Adkins traveled nearly 900 miles on rollerskates from Boston to Lansing, Michigan, as they raised money for the American Cancer Society.

People

NONPROFIT & PHILANTHROPY

Banksy auctions paintings to aid hospital

A trio of Banksy paintings, depicting Europe’s migrant crisis of the past decade, has sold for more than $2.9 million at an auction in London, with the proceeds being donated to a hospital in Bethlehem.

BBC

Kyrgyz volunteers to the rescue amid virus

Armies of volunteers have played a major role in filling the gaps in dealing with the crisis in the country of 6.5 million people. Activists found medical supplies and food and water for medical workers and patients.

Associated Press

Mackenzie Scott donates $1.7B to charities

MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Amazon.com Inc’s billionaire Chief Executive Jeff Bezos, has donated $1.7 billion of her wealth in the past year to causes including racial equality, LGBTQ rights, public health and climate change.

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

3B animals affected by Australian megafires

Nearly 3 billion animals were killed or displaced by Australia’s devastating bushfire season of 2019 and 2020, according to scientists who have revealed the scale of the impact on the country’s native wildlife.

Guardian

Lessons from Costa Rica’s reforestation plan

Costa Rica is the first tropical country to have stopped — and subsequently reversed —deforestation. Can the rest of the world follow in the country’s footsteps?

CNN

Fires in Brazil’s Pantanal doubles posing risks

A Brazilian state institute says the number of fires in Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands more than doubled in the first half of 2020, compared to the same period last year

ABC News

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

Mexican businesses struggling in pandemic

Mexican business owners are trying to cling to life — often unsuccessfully — in an economic recession profoundly deepened by the COVID-19 pandemic and with almost no assistance from the government.

ABC News

Lebanon 1st in region to hit hyperinflation

Lebanon could face its biggest crisis since its Civil War, economists are warning as the country’s currency hits new lows. It is the first country in the Mideast and North Africa whose inflation rate has topped 50% for 30 days.

ABC News

Latin America will be poorer after the pandemic

Latin America will emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic with higher poverty rates as efforts to control the virus lead to spikes in unemployment and indebtedness.

Reuters

Photo of the Day

Men working at a saffron farm in Torbat heydariyeh, Razavi Khorasan province, Iran. Iran introduced the saffron for export and now sells the spice to many parts of the world. (Photo by Safa Daneshvar) Photo used under CC BY

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