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A worker in India cleans a floor. Globally, between 2019 and 2020, 54 million women’s jobs were eliminated. Many women have not only experienced severe loss of income, but continue to bear the brunt of unpaid care work. (Photo by Ronaldo Lazzari) Photo used under CC BY

Pandemic job market hits women hardest

Women have been hit harder than men by job losses around the world due to the pandemic, and only men’s employment is likely to recover to 2019 levels this year, the International Labor Organization said this week.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Illegal gold miners attacking Amazon villages

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, the Yanomami people are battling an old and elusive enemy -- one they haven’t seen since the 1980s. Garimpeiros are illegal gold miners looking for glimmers of gold in this vast and rich territory.

CNN

Siberia hit by unprecedented burning

Guardian

COVID deaths in India higher than reported

A U.S. research group has found that India’s COVID death toll is higher than the nearly 415,000 fatalities reported by authorities, possibly up to 10 times higher, likely making it the country’s worst humanitarian disaster since independence.

Asia Times Online

Vaccine inequity: Inside the cutthroat race to secure doses

Associated Press

Ariel Henry to be Haiti’s new prime minister

Nearly two weeks after the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, the man he chose to become the country’s next prime minister, Ariel Henry, is set to assume office.

NPR

Interim Haitian PM Claude Joseph steps down

Al Jazeera

Migrants in Brussels wasting on hunger strike

The Belgian government is under pressure to offer residence permits to several hundred migrants, some of whom are “between life and death” after a weeks’ long hunger strike.

Guardian

Migrant deaths on sea routes to Europe more than doubled this year

NBCNews.com

HUMAN RIGHTS

Thai activists clash with police over COVID

Police used tear gas, water cannons and rubber bullets to disperse protesters trying to march on the Thai PM’s office this week to demand he resign over his handling of the COVID pandemic and its economic impact.

CNN

Violence intensifies in protests in Iran

Six nights of protests over water shortages have turned deadly, with three civilians and one police officer killed.

Al Jazeera

Ugandan activists describe abuse in prison

Opposition activists who spent months behind bars in Uganda have described systematic physical abuse, denial of basic legal rights and appalling conditions as they waited for trial on charges they claim were fabricated.

Guardian

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Rural teacher wins Peru’s presidential election

Rural teacher-turned-political novice Pedro Castillo this week became the winner of Peru‘s presidential election after the country’s longest electoral count in 40 years.

NPR

Mali’s interim president targeted during prayer

Mali‘s interim President Assimi Goita was the target of an attempted stabbing attack during Eid al-Adha prayers at Bamako’s Grand Mosque, the West African nation’s presidency said in a statement on Twitter this week.

Reuters

Ghana prevents attacks with good governance

Good governance and an active civil society spare Ghana from the militia attacks that the neighboring countries are faced with. According to experts, democratic processes are well in place in the West African country.

Deutsche Welle

Russia sends supplies to Myanmar junta

The head of Russia‘s state arms exporter said this week that Moscow was cooperating closely with Myanmar’s ruling junta to supply it with military hardware including aircraft.

Reuters

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Tech takes sting out of bites in rural India

Venomous snakebites cause tens of thousands of deaths each year. But homegrown apps are coming to the rescue – and protecting reptiles from reprisals in rural India.

Guardian

Hong Kong police arrest pro-democracy editor

Hong Kong national security police this week arrested a former editor at the now-defunct Apple Daily pro-democracy newspaper, weeks after it was forced to close after authorities froze its assets.

Associated Press

GLOBAL HEALTH

Vaccine misinformation persists on Facebook

Facebook is under fire once again over the proliferation of vaccine misinformation on its platform, after Joe Biden said tech giants such as Facebook are “killing people” for failing to tackle the problem.

Guardian

Myanmar: Volunteers overwhelmed by COVID

With hospitals in junta-run Myanmar empty of pro-democracy medical staff and COVID cases surging nationwide, volunteers are going house-to-house to collect the fast-rising number of victims dying in their homes.

Asia Times Online

Iran’s daily COVID infections hit another high

Iran this week broke another record in the country’s daily new COVID cases, even as Tehran and its surroundings went into lockdown, a week-long measure imposed amid another surge in the pandemic.

Associated Press

Children older than 2 should wear masks

The American Academy of Pediatrics released new COVID guidance for schools this week that supports in-person learning and, among other things, recommends universal masking in school of everyone over the age of 2.

CNN

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Benjamin Fogel):

The insurrection in South Africa is about more than freeing Zuma

Al Jazeera

Column (Marwan Bishara):

A country in freefall: What future for Lebanon?

Al Jazeera

Column (Sonya Angelica Diehn):

We need climate action, not space tourism

Deutsche Welle

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GOOD NEWS

Barcelona helps disabled beachgoers

Barcelona provides a special service, which has helped thousands of disabled beachgoers enjoy the beach. It includes amphibious chairs, purpose-designed dressing rooms, and lifeguards to help users access the water.

Yahoo! News

Woman, grandchildren establish home made food pantry to help those in need

WJET - WFXP Erie

Students build wheelchair-stroller for new parent with impaired mobility

Good Morning America

Boy with cancer creates Post-It note art in hospital window — and befriends staff across the street

Yahoo! News

94-year-old fulfills wedding dress dreams

94-year-old Martha Mae Ophelia Moon Tucker fulfilled a lifelong dream to wear a wedding dress 70 years after she married. Tucker said she couldn’t shop in Alabama bridal stores in the 1950s due to racial segregation laws.

Yahoo! News

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Foundation sets up social impact pitch contest

The Richard King Mellon Foundation in Pittsburgh has announced a $1 million “pitch competition” for for-profit companies — to be judged on the basis of potential social impact.

Philanthropy News Digest

Nonprofits not trusted to ‘do what is right’

While the public’s confidence in the ability of nonprofits to “strengthen society” rose slightly in 2021, trust that nonprofits and philanthropy will “do what is right” fell from 2020 levels, a report from Independent Sector finds.

Philanthropy News Digest

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Lebanon’s ride share drivers face downturn

Fuel shortages and increasing gas prices threaten to grind Lebanon’s public transport and ride-share system to a halt as drivers struggle to cover the skyrocketing costs of living and maintaining their vehicles.

Al Jazeera

ENVIRONMENT

Sea snot in Turkey’s waters may be warning

Turkey’s Marmara Sea is dying. Globs of feathery goo are literally choking the life out of the water. The snot is suffocating everything else right down to the coral, which it covers and slowly chokes to death.

Microsoft News

Hajj pilgrims face growing heat stroke risks

As thousands of devout Muslims flock to Islam’s holiest sites in Saudi Arabia for the annual hajj pilgrimage this week, scientists warn the sacred rite is under threat due to deadly rising heat.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Libya battles to protect its endangered forests

While Libya has been torn by conflict between various political and armed factions over the past decade, some have been waging a different kind of battle: a fight to save the country’s greenest land.

Deutsche Welle

Photo of the Day

A laboratory scientist in Nigeria with her baby attending malaria microscopy training conducted by eHealth Africa/EHA Clinics. (Photo by eHealth Africa EHA Clinics) Photo used under CC BY

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