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Kids seen playing in the Kibera Slums, Nairobi Kenya. Kenya poverty rate indicates that 46 percent of its people live below the poverty line and 10.9 million of those people live in extreme poverty as of 2012. (Photo by Christine Olson) Photo used under CC BY

Extreme poverty threatens millions, UN envoy warns

International institutions are losing the fight against global poverty despite “self congratulatory” messages to the contrary, with COVID-19 likely to impoverish millions more, according to the UN’s envoy on extreme poverty and human rights.

Guardian

COVID-19 could wipe out gains for women at work

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Racism debates spread across the Arab world

The Black Lives Matter protests have triggered discussions on racism toward blacks in the Arab and Muslim world. Activists are looking to change attitudes around skin color and ethnicity in their societies.

Deutsche Welle

Virus deaths decrease with major spike ahead

It is true that deaths due to COVID-19 are trending downwards, even as cases and hospitalization rates increase. However, infectious disease experts say it is too early to celebrate the lower mortality rate we’ve seen in recent weeks.

TIME

Former child soldiers join the fight against the novel coronavirus

Deutsche Welle

Coronavirus outbreak is ‘accelerating’, WHO

The director-general of the WHO, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said the coronavirus outbreak is “accelerating, and we have clearly not reached the peak of the pandemic.”

CBS News

Pandemic is harming global AIDS, HIV care

New numbers on the global AIDS epidemic show some big successes, such as fewer deaths and new infections. But there are also some tragic failures: Only half the children with HIV, are getting treatment.

Associated Press

China bubonic plague is not ‘high risk’, WHO

The WHO says it is “carefully monitoring” a case of bubonic plague in China‘s northern region, but says that it is “not high risk”. The bubonic plague was once the world’s most feared disease, but can now be easily treated.

BBC

HUMAN RIGHTS

Free ambulance saves mothers, babies in Kenya

As soon as Kenya introduced a coronavirus curfew, Dr. Jemimah Kariuk started seeing more death and complications. In an effort to help Kariuki started Wheels for Life, a free ambulance service for mothers in labor.

Reuters

Tuk tuk drivers in Somalia struggle as lockdown hits business

Deutsche Welle

Italy rejects migrants stranded on cargo ship

A Lebanese cargo ship carrying 52 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean has been denied access to Italy and Malta, forcing its captain to accommodate the stranded people in the vessel’s dirty cattle cages.

Al Jazeera

Fruit pickers in Spain on frontlines of pandemic

Deutsche Welle

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Virus forces cruel choice on asylum seekers

U.S. ICE has dialed back arrests and released some immigrants on parole, but has come under fire for shifting detainees between facilities during the pandemic as part of its effort to promote social distancing.

Reuters

Egypt arrests doctors, silences critics over virus

At least 10 doctors and six journalists have been arrested since the virus first hit Egypt in February. Other health workers say they have been warned by administrators to keep quiet or face punishment.

Associated Press

China warns UK over Hong Kong ‘interference’

China has warned the UK not to interfere with Hong Kong following the imposition by Beijing of the national security law. Opponents of the new law say it erodes Hong Kong’s freedoms as a semi-autonomous region.

BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Kenya uses app in battle against desert locusts

Locust numbers, the worst in three generations, surged in East Africa and the Red Sea region in late 2019. ‘E-Locust’ app helps Kenyans battle worst locust swarms the country has seen in three generations.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Does air conditioning help spread the coronavirus?

Deutsche Welle

GLOBAL HEALTH

Latinos, Blacks struggle with test disparities

As the pandemic explodes in diverse states like Arizona and Florida, people in communities of color who have been exposed to the virus are struggling to get tested.

Associated Press

China reports case of suspected bubonic plague

While China appears to have reduced coronavirus cases to near zero, other infectious threats remain, with local health authorities announcing a suspected bubonic plague case in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

CBS News

Colombia fears underreported virus deaths

COVID-19 cases and deaths are surging along Colombia’s Caribbean coast as the region becomes the epicenter of the pandemic in the country, with doctors warning many deaths are going unreported.

Al Jazeera

How Uruguay is avoiding the COVID-19 spread plaguing Latin America

CNN

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Carel Sarvaas):

Too many cross-species diseases are being overlooked worldwide

The Hill

Column (Amy Coughenour Betancourt):

Reimagining resilient food systems post-COVID and beyond

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Column (Michael Bociurkiw):

Hong Kong needs substantial action from the West, not just words

CNN

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GOOD NEWS

US woman already collecting cards for troops

It may be July, but one Granite State woman is already looking ahead to the holiday season. Each year, Laura Landerman-Garber collects thousands of holiday greeting cards and mails them to service members worldwide.

WMUR

Senior residents on the search for pen pals

Nearly four months into a strict no-visitor rule due to the coronavirus, an assisted living community in North Carolina tapped into the power of social media to get its residents connected with people from all over the world.

CNN

NONPROFIT & PHILANTHROPY

Volunteers develop functioning lung ventilator

Working around the clock, Tomas Kapler brought together a team of 30 Czechs to develop a fully functional ventilator — Corovent. And they did it in a matter of days.

Associated Press

10-year-old raises over 2K art kits for kids

Chelsea Phaire has made over 2,500 art kits by hand and sent them to kids across America through a charity she started in 2019 called Chelsea’s Charity.

Good Morning America

Grafton man starts online marketplace, all profits go to charity

WCVB

Wedding gowns donated to healthcare workers

Massachusetts-based nonprofit, Brides Across America, is giving away wedding gowns to health care heroes around the United States.

Today

ENVIRONMENT

Virus impacts care for Kenya’s elephants

The coronavirus has affected tourism around the world. In parts of Africa, the loss of income has impacted conservation projects like animal protection.

Deutsche Welle

Treating symptoms, not cause of pandemics

The world is treating the health and economic symptoms of the coronavirus pandemic but not the environmental cause, according to the authors of a UN report.

Guardian

Judge suspends Dakota Access pipeline

A federal judge has sided with the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and ordered the Dakota Access pipeline shut down until a more extensive environmental review is done.

Guardian

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

Global food banks see record demands

COVID-19 has left many around the world needing food aid for the first time. But food banks are squeezed between short supply and surging demand.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Argentina’s child poverty rate soars

The health crisis has hammered Argentina’s economy, which is now expected to shrink around 12% this year, driving millions into poverty and leaving almost six in 10 children and adolescents below the poverty line.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Photo of the Day

Leg rowing fisherman, seen through his cone basket, on Inle Lake, Myanmar. The lake is the second largest lake in Myanmar with an estimated surface area of 44.9 square miles. (Photo by Benh Lieu Song) Photo used under CC BY

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