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Sarah Nam, communications and social networking officer for the Department of Water Supply and Sewerage in Nepal, holds a sign that says, “Don’t defecate in the open. Don’t put your life at risk.” Louiza Zhang holds a sign that says, “This is a movement against open defecation. Cleanliness is going to be our identity.” In the middle is Yukta Kumari Magar an organizer from the WASH User group in Nepal’s Udayapur District. (Photo by Jim Holmes for AusAID) Photo used under CC BY

Poor sanitation causes many thousands of deaths

More than half the world’s population live with poor sanitation and hygiene, 2 billion drink water contaminated with feces and 673 million defecate in the open. Annually, this costs countries $260 billion and causes 432,000 diarrheal deaths.

Telegraph.co.uk

World Toilet Day: The lives of Indian sanitation workers

BBC

Toilet signs give the scoop on pee and poop

NPR

Will legal cases bring justice for Rohingya?

Last week, three separate cases were filed against Myanmar for atrocities against Rohingya people in the first international legal attempts to bring justice to the persecuted Muslim minority.

Al Jazeera

Allies, critics dispute battle for Bolivia’s soul

On one side of Bolivia’s political chasm people and leaders are denouncing a “coup.” On the other, they are welcoming the “return of democracy.” Global allies and critics dispute what is happening in Bolivia.

Guardian

N. Korea snubs Trump bid for another summit

Pyongyang hit back hard in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tweet suggesting another summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. North Korea is no longer interested in holding a “fruitless” summit with the U.S.

ABC News

Docs expose China’s crackdown on Uighurs

China has dismissed a New York Times report detailing Beijing’s ongoing detention of Muslim minorities, including Uighurs.

Newsy

Reporter: Camps aim to eradicate Uighur culture

YouTube

Duterte’s rice policies sow confusion, doubt

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is again at loggerheads with his government’s top technocrats, this time over the nation’s floundering but crucial rice industry.

Asia Times Online

Hong Kong police close in on campus activists

Desperate activists inside a Hong Kong university have done all they can to escape from police besieging the campus.

South China Morning Post

HUMAN RIGHTS

Migrants disowned for not reaching Europe

Most of the West African migrants who fail to reach Europe eventually return to their own countries, but it can be a bitter homecoming. In Sierra Leone, returnees are often rejected by relatives and friends as they’re seen as failures.

BBC

Protesters demand Haitian president step down

Jovenel Moise has urged the international community to step in and prevent a “humanitarian crisis” erupting in the Caribbean island nation. Meanwhile, his opponents have taken to the streets and want him to step down.

Deutsche Welle

Dutch protest over Black Pete festivalgoers

Anti-racism campaigners have held protests in cities across the Netherlands during Sinterklaas - a festival celebrating the arrival of Saint Nicholas, traditionally accompanied by his helper Black Pete.

BBC

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Brazil cuts sex ed despite boom in HIV, syphilis

Brazil is cutting sex education funding despite an increase in sexually transmitted infections (STIs) incidences - a move that could lead to a worsening of already high rates of STIs rooted in scientific ignorance and homophobia.

Newsweek

African Union fires ambassador to US

The African Union fired its U.S. ambassador this month. Her supporters say it was because of her anti-colonial speeches. However, a recent African Union internal report alleges abuse of funds and office.

NPR

S. Sudan leaders must form government

The African Union said that South Sudan‘s dueling leaders had one final chance to form a government, backing US warnings that patience with the fledgling young nation’s government had run out.

Yahoo! News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Superslippery toilets squash water wastage

A team of materials scientists have developed an ultra slippery coating that prevents liquid and solid waste from sticking to the toilet bowl, halving the amount of water needed to flush.

Scientific American

Burkina Faso genetically modifies mosquitoes

A radical trial using “gene drive” technology is currently taking place in Burkina Faso, that will see the release of a genetically modified strain of mosquitoes in an attempt to wipe out carriers of malaria.

Guardian

GLOBAL HEALTH

Free home HIV tests detect more infections

According to a U.S. government study, mailing free home HIV tests to high-risk men offers a potentially better strategy for detecting infections than usual care.

Associated Press

Sierra Leone’s struggle to reform mental health

The WHO estimates that 10 percent of the seven million Sierra Leoneans have mental health problems. Due to unknown numbers of unreported cases, the scourge of depression, anxiety, or PTSD is likely to be much bigger.

The New Humanitarian

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GOOD NEWS

Man sacrifices SUV to protect pedestrians

When Erick Marciano saw a car speed through a red light and head toward a crowd, he drove his SUV to block the lane causing the car to crash into his. He protected a dozen or so pedestrians by sacrificing his SUV and safety.

Today

Elite unit gives fellow Marines funeral they deserve

CBS News

Nurse adopts man so he could get transplant

Jonathan Pinkard is autistic and was ineligible for a transplant because he didn‘t have a support system. Lori Wood was assigned to be Pinkard’s nurse and two days later became his guardian so he could have a heart transplant.

Today

Liver transplant leads to unbreakable bond

MSN

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Specialists provide skills to those in need

Haircuts for rough sleepers. Beauty treatments for cancer patients. Boilers for disabled people. A wave of specialists are providing skills – and hope – for those in need.

Guardian

8-year-old raises $50K for homeless veterans

An 8-year-old boy from Maryland is helping veterans get back on their feet, one care package at a time.

People

ENVIRONMENT

Water scarcity spilling over into global crisis

Population growth and climate change are putting increasingly intense pressure on the planet’s limited water supplies, with worsening shortages emerging from the Middle East to Asia and Latin America, researchers say.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Measuring climate change on sequoias

In Sequoia National Park, many of the trees have been alive since before the Roman Empire. Scientists are now studying the impacts that civilization is having on these trees’ very existence.

CBS News

Indonesia builds earthquake-proof homes with bamboo

Deutsche Welle

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Sierra Leone’s soldiers heal trauma with yoga

Sergeant Felixon Musa learned yoga from a yoga teacher who died in West Africa’s Ebola epidemic. To keep his teacher’s skills alive, he persuaded army superiors to hold sessions to help troops deal with trauma.

Reuters

Many Native Americans can’t get clean water

A new report shows that more than 2 million Americans live without being able to turn on the tap or flush the toilet and that Native Americans are more likely to have trouble accessing water than any other group.

NPR

Education for indigenous Indian kids includes social justice

Deutsche Welle

Molar city, Mexico, America’s dental Mecca

Los Algodones, Mexico, is a tiny border town known by many American visitors as “Molar City.” An estimated 600 dentists operate out of hundreds of clinics that fill the 1-square-mile town and has fewer than 5,000 residents.

Huffington Post

Making public transport safer for women in Delhi

Deutsche Welle

Photo of the Day

A girl eats a meal provided by Feed My Starving Children in Nicaragua in 2012. Nicaragua is heading for a third consecutive year of economic contraction in 2020, which will result in open unemployment for at least 237,000 people, and a poverty level above two million Nicaraguans, according to estimates of the Nicaraguan Foundation for Economic and Social Development (Funides), whose economists urged for a political solution to the crisis. (Photo by Feed My Starving Children) Photo used under CC BY

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