The Daily Source: Quality News from Around the Internet

Home

About us

Our Team

Opinion

Migrant boys in a shelter. Vast numbers of children and families are on the move around the world. There are now 30m children displaced by conflict, the highest since World War II, and vastly more unaccompanied child migrants are being recorded than at the beginning of the decade. Besides war, other factors driving child migration include poverty and climate change. (Photo by Dylan Thomas / UKaid / Department for International Development) Photo used under CC BY

Child migrants being denied rights globally

All too often, child migrants around the world end up in the hands of traffickers who force them into sexual exploitation or slavery. Many more end up in state detention, with long-term effects on their mental and physical health.

truthout

Previously unreported sixth migrant child died in US custody last year

NBCNews.com

Air pollution harms ‘every organ in the body’

A comprehensive global review found that air pollution damages the body from head to toe, with effects including dementia, heart and lung disease, fertility problems and reduced intelligence.

The Guardian

Beijing’s skyline: with and without air pollution – in pictures

Guardian

High levels of antibiotics polluting world’s rivers

Hundreds of rivers around the world from the Thames to the Tigris are awash with dangerously high levels of antibiotics, the largest global study on the subject has found.

Guardian

Beating plastic pollution, individually and socially

The Hindu

Yemen caseloads overwhelm global aid groups

As Yemen’s civil war stretches into its fifth year, international relief organizations on the ground find that civilian needs continue to rise, often overwhelming available resources.

Devex

In Mexico, sexual violence drives citizen action

In Juarez, which has one of the highest rates of femicide in Mexico, unarmed citizens have banded together to form Guardia Ciudadana, a group committed to identifying sexual predators and stemming sexual violence.

Al Jazeera

Amid hatred, Germany warns against scullcaps

The German government’s anti-Semitism commissioner, citing a rise in anti-Semitic violence, warned the country’s Jewish community to avoid donning kippahs, traditional Jewish head coverings, in public.

Deutsche Welle

HUMAN RIGHTS

Myanmar’s displaced Shan face harassment

A new report describes intimidation and other measures that are making life hellish for impoverished citizens stuck near the border of southern Shan state and northern Thailand.

Asia Times Online

Myanmar gives guilty soldiers early release

Al Jazeera

Ethiopian farmers fighting drought with cows

A project that lends drought-hit Ethiopian farmers money to buy a dairy cow, then insures the animal in case it gets sick, aims to bring in extra income. But some farmers have struggled to make it pay.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

43% of India’s new MPs face criminal charges

Among India’s newly elected members of parliament, almost half face criminal charges. Attempt to murder, crimes against women and hate speech top the charge list.

Asia Times Online

Indian parents agonize over radicalization of their children

NPR

Ireland votes in favor of liberalizing divorce laws

Ireland voted in favor of changing the country’s archaic divorce laws. More than 82 percent of voters supported changing the constitution to lower the waiting time, and also to recognize foreign divorces.

Quartz

Egypt teaches kids about love in bid to curb divorce

Middle East Online

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

IVF couples could choose ‘smartest’ embryo

Couples undergoing IVF treatment could be given the option to pick the “smartest” embryo within the next 10 years, a leading U.S. scientist has predicted.

Guardian

Now, origami-inspired reusable spacecrafts?

Inspired by the paper folding art of origami, University of Washington researchers have developed a novel solution to help reduce impact forces - for potential applications in spacecraft, cars and beyond.

ScienceDaily

GLOBAL HEALTH

Rwanda battles to wipe out cervical cancer

Cervical cancer is the most common cancer in Rwandan women. Cultural taboos and rumors of infertility are just some of the many hurdles Rwanda’s campaign to end cervical cancer has had to overcome.

The Independent

New research finds a low-fat diet can lower a woman’s risk for breast cancer

CBS News

WHO recognizes burnout as medical condition

The WHO has for the first time recognized “burnout” in its International Classification of Diseases, which is widely used as a benchmark for diagnosis and health insurers.

Channel NewsAsia

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Site edited by: Jameson O'Neal, Rachel Barrus, Ashley Nawn, Sanaz Ariya and Catherine Lux.

GOOD NEWS

Street dog leads refugee family to a new home

It is hard to start a new life in a different country with no resources, but one exiled family’s circumstances have taken a happy turn. And it started with the presence of a street dog.

NBCNews.com

Community helps Saudi women go running

With the Jeddah Running Community, women are taking to the streets of Saudi Arabia’s cities to go running. This is challenging cultural norms which considers it inappropriate for women to participate in sport in public.

YouTube

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

In Mexico, NGOs offer aid to young, deported

A new generation of migrants is arriving in Mexico: Young adults born in Mexico, raised in the U.S. With limited government support, NGOs are looking to help these educated migrants and take advantage of their skills.

NPR

Trump rolls out $16B bailout for US farmers

The federal government will spend an additional $16 billion to help farmers hurt by the US-China trade war, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced.

CNN

ENVIRONMENT

A major polluter, S. Africa enacts carbon tax

South Africa, the continent’s worst polluter, will impose a carbon tax on greenhouse gases from fuel combustion and industrial processes and emissions. The step has won cautious praise from environmentalists.

Al Jazeera

In photos: Floods reveal South Africa’s shocking plastic pollution crisis

SA People News

Malaysia’s last male Sumatran rhino dies

Malaysia’s last male Sumatran rhino has died, leaving behind just one female of the same rare species in captivity in the country. The Sumatran rhino, the world’s smallest rhinoceros, is on the brink of extinction.

CNN

Lucrative trade imperils Africa’s Nile perch

Guardian

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Nokia gives raises to close gender pay gap

Some female Nokia employees will get a raise this summer, part of the company’s effort to close its gender pay gap.

Seattle Times

Failing to hire women, ECB extends deadline

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Tax system tackles UK’s inequality problem

UK’s tax system does help reduce the country’s wealth inequality problem, according to a report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, but benefits still do most of the heavy lifting.

Guardian

Photo of the Day

A farmer from the Tigray region, Ethiopia in April 2018. Due to scarcity of land, the majority of the population in Tigray produce less than half their annual minimal food requirements and 89 percent of the population earn less than $2.54 per day, plunging them into poverty and malnutrition, according to Farm Africa. (Photo by Rod Waddington) Photo used under CC BY

DailySource Most Popular

Features

About us

Ways to help

Other