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Afghan boys working at brick kiln. The theme for World Day Against Child Labor 2019 is ‘Children shouldn’t work in fields, but on dreams!’ This year also marks 20 years since the adoption of the ILO’s Worst Forms of Child Labor Convention, 1999. (Photo by ILO in Asia and the Pacific) Photo used under CC BY

152M children worldwide victims of child labor

On World Day Against Child Labor 2019, the International Labor Organization is celebrating 100 years of advancing social justice and promoting decent work and looking back on progress achieved in view of support to countries on tackling child labor.

News18

Illegal child labor rampant in Inda

YouTube

Indian factories endangering workers’ health

A Thomson Reuters Foundation expose based on interviews with about 100 women in Tamil Nadu’s multi-billion dollar garment industry found all of them were given unlabelled drugs at work for period pains, and more than half said their health suffered.

Yahoo! News

Climate to pose threat to peace in next decade

Nearly a billion people live in areas at high risk from global warming and about 40% are in countries already struggling with conflict, says Institute for Economics and Peace.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Climate change: Warming oceans may reduce sea life by 17%

Al Jazeera

Iran to let people report others’ moral crimes

Iran is to launch a text-messaging service to allow self-appointed guardians of morality in Tehran to turn in their neighbors or strangers for violating murky codes of public conduct, officials have said.

The Independent

Japan’s sex abuse survivors demand reforms

Survivors of sexual abuse and their supporters have rallied in nine cities across Japan to protest against recent court acquittals of alleged rapists and urge reform of the country’s anti-rape law.

Al Jazeera

LGBTQ refugees in Kenya slum face attacks

Scores of LGBTQ refugees are in desperate need of emergency shelter after facing homophobic threats, violence and eviction warnings from community members in a Nairobi slum.

Reuters

HUMAN RIGHTS

Cost of global violence estimated at $14T a year

Violence is costing the world more than $14 trillion a year, or $1,853 for every person alive, according to newly-published research by the Institute for Economics & Peace.

Forbes

Global Peace Index 2019: Which countries are the most peaceful in the world?

Euro News

Hong Kong workers strike to ‘defend freedom’

About 100 businesses and numerous workers in Hong Kong shut their shops in a rare strike to protest against an extradition bill that many fear will undermine freedom and confidence in the commercial hub.

Reuters

Hong Kong’s controversial extradition bill explained

Al Jazeera

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Britain, first G7 nation with zero emission target

Britain has announced it will enshrine a new commitment to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 into law, marking a first among G7 nations facing increasingly severe impacts from the climate crisis.

Reuters

Russia using legal methods to undermine West

Russia has spent years exploiting institutions and legal systems in the West to target critics, invalidate court decisions and roll back sanctions, according to allegations in a new report by the Free Russia Foundation.

NPR

Vladimir Putin-linked businessman urged Sudan crackdown, leaked documents show

Telegraph.co.uk

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

400 medical practices declared ‘ineffective’

Researchers pinpointed to almost 400 common medical practices that are actually ineffective. About 92 percent of these were conducted on subjects in high-income nations, only 8 percent took place in low or middle-income countries.

UPI

Researchers test vaccine in mice that could stem Alzheimer’s

YouTube

Human brains evolved to ‘prefer’ music, speech

New evidence suggests the possibility that sounds, which are embedded in speech and music, may have shaped the basic organization of the human brain when compared to our primate “cousins.”

Medical News Today

Animal cultural lifestyles influence evolution

Phys.org

GLOBAL HEALTH

Women denied abortions suffer poor health

A new study of patients at 30 U.S. abortion facilities, shows that in many cases, being denied an abortion actually results in a woman’s poorer physical health.

Inverse

Saudi Arabia’s abortion laws are more forgiving than Alabama’s

Quartz

UN: Food-borne diseases plagues Asia Pacific

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization has warned that food-borne illnesses in the Asia Pacific region “needlessly” sicken over 275 million people annually out of which 225,000 people die each year.

Scidev.net

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GOOD NEWS

Queen honors women seeking to end FGM

Queen Elizabeth II recognized Leyla Hussein and Nimco Ali with the Officer of the Order of the British Empire for their work to eliminate female genital mutilation. The U.K. has pledged $63 million to eliminate FGM in Africa.

NPR

Great grandmother skydives to help veterans

For her 73rd birthday, a Battle Ground, Washington great grandma, Shirley Romig went skydiving to raise money for an organization that pairs veterans in need with service dogs.

MSN

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

New fund to support work on racial equity

Borealis Philanthropy, a philanthropic intermediary, has announced the launch of a new fund aimed at supporting practitioners who are helping nonprofit organizations integrate racial equity into their work.

Philanthropy News Digest

Oxfam failed to report Haiti child abuse claims

There were “serious problems with the culture, morale and behavior” of Oxfam staff in Haiti, according to a damning report, which has found that the charity failed to disclose allegations of child abuse.

Guardian

ENVIRONMENT

Logging ravaging the Solomon Islands’ forests

Logging companies are clearing forests on the Solomon Islands at a rapid rate, but with Manasseh Sogavare re-elected as prime minister, there seems little prospect for change for the country’s forestry policies.

Asia Times Online

Canada shop shames people to cut plastic

Customers who don’t bring their own bags to the East West Market in Vancouver will instead have to carry their grocery home in bags reading “Wart Ointment Wholesale” or “Into the Weird Adult Video Emporium.”

Guardian

Canada bans keeping whales, dolphins captive

The Hill

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Calls for women’s soccer team to get equal pay

The U.S. women’s soccer team beat Thailand 13 to zero in their first match of 2019’s World Cup, crushing several records – and reminding the internet that the team still isn’t paid as much as the U.S. men’s team.

TIME

Serena Williams only woman on Forbes’ list

NBCNews.com

Target boosts workers’ benefits in tight market

Target said it would beef up benefits for its full and part-time workers, including offering paid family leave and backup child care. The move comes as retailers seek to attract workers in a tightening labor market.

Star Tribune

Walgreens cuts health benefit for retired employees

CNBC

Photo of the Day

When this picture was taken in January, 2014, 14-year-old Ami knew when other girls in her village, in the west African country of Burkina Faso, were being cut – she’d hear them scream. But now her community is abandoning the practice, and – unlike her mother when she was a child – Ami will not undergo female genital mutilation. The UK is working to reduce the practice by 30 percent in at least 10 countries in Africa in the next 5 years. (Photo by Jessica Lea/DFID) Photo used under CC BY

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