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An overcrowded train transfers refugees during the partition of India in 1947. This was believed to be the largest migration in history up to that time. (Photo by Columbia University Archives) Photo used under CC BY

Indian citizenship law reignites old hostilities

Indian communities are on edge as the Citizenship Amendment Act rekindles rivalries between Bengali settlers and Bru refugees in the state of Tripura. Both communities have been on edge since India enacted a new citizenship law in December.

Al Jazeera

UN warns of unprecedented hunger in Africa

Southern Africa is in the throes of a climate emergency, with hunger levels in the region on a previously unseen scale, the UN warns.

Guardian

Catastrophic conditions greet refugees on Lesbos

Refugee agencies on the island of Lesbos are warning that an increase in arrivals is becoming “unmanageable” – and are calling for an urgent program to relocate thousands of migrants across Europe.

Guardian

Climate to increase violent deaths of the young

Rising temperatures caused by global heating are likely to increase deaths from road crashes, violence, suicides and drowning, according to new research, and will affect young people most.

Guardian

Women nurture African climate scientists

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Civil strife is projected to increase in 2020

A quarter of all countries experienced a dramatic surge in civil unrest last year in a worrying trend that is likely to continue into 2020, researchers have found. Protests are likely to increase in 75 countries.

Guardian

Security forces fire tear gas in second night of Lebanon clashes

Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

Chinese dam threatens Philippines Indigenous

A Philippine company signed a contract with the state-owned China Energy Engineering Co Ltd, to build a $800M dam in Pulangi despite Indigenous people’s objections.

Al Jazeera

Chilean anthem sets tone at Women’s March

Thousands marched around the White House and perform the Chilean feminist anthem saying, “the oppressive state is a rapist. The rapist is you,” at the 4th annual Women’s March in Washington, DC.

Al Jazeera

Sex trade flourishes in Peru’s Amazon

Often poor and with little education, women and girls from indigenous farming communities in Peru, make easy prey for traffickers, who lure them with false promises of well-paid jobs.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

In Peru’s highlands, student radio show sounds alarm on trafficking

Thomson Reuters Foundation

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Jordan passes draft law, bans gas imports

The Parliament of Jordan approved a draft law to ban imports of Israeli gas after they started under a multibillion-dollar deal struck in 2016 that is opposed by much of the population.

Al Jazeera

State vs people conflict rocks and roils Vietnam

The state versus people clashes in Vietnam mark the latest in a rising number of combustive grass roots protests against the Communist Party-run government and its centrally imposed development plans.

Asia Times Online

US suffers greatest global decline in trust

The world’s trust in the U.S, a country entering an election year with its impeached president facing trial in the Senate and stirring global alarm over the U.S. killing of an Iranian general, has dropped over 50% since 2016.

U.S. News & World Report

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Scientists discover 4 distinct patterns of aging

People fall into distinct categories depending on which of their biological systems ages fastest. Someday, doctors could use this information to recommend lifestyle changes and design personalized medical treatments.

LiveScience

Wolf puppies love to play fetch

A dog’s ability to play fetch with is a learned behavior that likely occurred after humans domesticated dogs from wolves. Researchers believe dogs only began to interpret cues from humans after domestication happened.

CNN

Researchers face ‘shocking’ levels of stress

Overwhelming work pressure, discrimination, and widespread bullying and harassment are contributing to “shocking” levels of stress and mental health problems among scientists.

Guardian

GLOBAL HEALTH

Improving maternal health in Uganda with tech

Uganda is still grappling with high maternal and perinatal mortality rates. A new app allows women to quickly access vital health services, as well as education on antenatal care.

Deutsche Welle

US drinking more now than before Prohibition

Americans are drinking more now than when Prohibition was enacted. What’s more, it’s been rising for two decades, and it’s not clear when it will fall again.

Associated Press

Taiwan’s single-payer success story

The Taiwanese health care system is built on the belief that everyone deserves health care - the island of 24 million people took a fractured and inequitable health care system and adopted a single - payer health system.

Vox

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Joseph Nathan):

Has US overplayed its tech advantage?

Asia Times Online

Column (Najmul Hoda):

India’s Muslim women are breaking free

Asia Times Online

Column (Kambaiz Rafi):

Ethnic supremacy seeing revival in Afghanistan

Asia Times Online

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GOOD NEWS

First Korean-American headed to space

Graduating from Harvard Medical School and being a part of the Navy SEALs must not have been enough accomplishments for Jonny Kim. The 35-year-old is now the first Korean-American to become a NASA astronaut.

CNN

Jewish family reclaimed art looted by Nazis

It took a random police check, a rare voluntary surrender and nearly 80 years to recover four drawings connected to a possible billion-dollar collection hidden away by Hitler’s art dealer.

Forbes

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Airbnb hosts open doors to displaced

Puerto Rico was devastated by a series of earthquakes that left thousands of people displaced from their homes and needing a place to stay. Airbnb is offering refuge to evacuees through its Open Homes program.

CNN

ENVIRONMENT

Kids’ climate case dismissed by appeals court

A federal appeals court dismissed a lawsuit brought by two dozen young people aimed at forcing the federal government to take bolder action on climate change, saying the courts were not the place to address the issue.

NPR

Exploring climate change

TIME

2019 capped off world’s hottest decade

The past decade was the hottest ever recorded on the planet, driven by an acceleration of temperature increases in the past five years, according to new data released by the U.S. government.

Sydney Morning Herald

Best news on climate you’ve never heard

Forbes

Environment and conservation finally become urgent issues for philanthropists

Forbes

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

Changing Thailand one pint at a time

Wichit Saiklao, owns an island pub where he openly sells domestically produced craft beer at very reasonable prices despite large brewers jealously protecting their turf via various laws and regulations.

Asia Times Online

$1B Amazon investment in India, no big favor

Amazon hasn’t done India any big favors by announcing a new $1 billion investment, its trade minister said, laying bare tensions with the U.S. online retail giant during a visit to the country by its CEO Jeff Bezos.

Reuters

Photo of the Day

A boy eats at a food distribution center in East Africa run by Feed My Starving Children in 2014. Southern Africa is in the throes of a climate emergency, with hunger levels in the region on a previously unseen scale, the UN has warned. Years of drought, widespread flooding and economic disarray have left 45 million people facing severe food shortages, with women and children bearing the brunt of the crisis, the World Food Program said. (Photo by Feed My Starving Children) Photo used under CC BY

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