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African nations demand racism debate at UNHCR

African countries called on the United Nations Human Rights Council to urgently debate racially inspired human rights violations, police brutality against people of African descent and the violence against the peaceful protests that call for these injustices to stop.

Al Jazeera

Why systemic racism is a public health crisis

The roots of institutionalized racism run deep, impacting the health of people of color in every aspect of their lives, including access to education, housing, and job opportunities — and the persistent threat of police violence.

Rolling Stone

What the world’s poorest and richest countries spend on health care

NPR

New Beijing virus cases spark second wave fear

A cluster of dozens of new coronavirus cases in Beijing has prompted authorities to lock down parts of the city again after nearly two months without any new virus infections. The outbreak raises concerns about how COVID-19 might re-emerge, even in places where it appeared to be under control.

Guardian

COVID-19 spreading fast among Brazil’s Indigenous tribes

Al Jazeera

Pakistan hospitals near collapse as coronavirus cases explode

Al Jazeera

Virus risks Yemen exceeding wartime fatalities

The official coronavirus death toll in Yemen’s Adel region stands at only 127. However, local officials say that death rates in the area are soaring, despite a relative lull in a war that ravaged the place in previous years.

CNN

UN issues desperate plea for financial aid in war-ravaged Yemen

Al Jazeera

Discovery of Libyan mass graves shocks world

The UN secretary general, António Guterres, has expressed shock at the discovery of mass graves in Libyan territory recaptured from Haftar forces, and called for an investigation into atrocities committed the region.

Guardian

HUMAN RIGHTS

Poor residents in Caribbean struggle for water

Nearly one in every two households in the Caribbean nation has no running water, relying instead on expensive private deliveries that have been badly disrupted by the coronavirus, just as they are most needed.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Bangladesh urged to lift Rohingya internet ban

Rohingya leaders have urged Bangladesh to lift an internet ban imposed on a million refugees in the city of Cox’s Bazar, warning that rumors and panic over COVID-19 is deterring people from getting tested.

Guardian

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Polish president criticizes LGBT community

Poland’s president has accused the LGBT rights movement of promoting a viewpoint more harmful than communism and said he agreed with another conservative politician who stated that “LGBT is not people, it’s an ideology.”

ABC News

Nepal approves map including disputed areas

Nepal’s Parliament has overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment to change the nation’s political map to include territory claimed by both India and Nepal.

ABC News

US continues to expel migrants at border

Customs and Border Protection continued to quickly remove migrants arriving at the southern border in May, following the Trump administration’s new rapid expulsion policy implemented in the wake of the pandemic.

CNN

Customs and Border Protection misuses money

NBC News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Heat threat drives innovation in pandemic year

From subsidies to help the poor buy air-conditioners to more shade awnings at retirement centers and heat warnings along with food deliveries, cities are trying out innovative ways to help the most vulnerable.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Drone technology takes farming into the future

An Ivory Coast startup is using drones to help the country’s agriculture sector become more productive and sustainable. The founders of the company hope the innovation will attract more young people to farming.

Deutsche Welle

GLOBAL HEALTH

Sao Paulo cemeteries prepare virus space

Brazil’s biggest metropolis has an unorthodox plan to free up space at its graveyards during the coronaviris pandemic: digging up the bones of people buried in the past and storing their bagged remains in large metal containers.

Associated Press

Health care workers across Latin America lack protective gear

Deutsche Welle

Has COVID-19 disappeared from Tanzania?

BBC

Does global meat industry foster pandemics?

Meat processing plants in North America and Europe have become COVID-19 hotspots. How much of a risk is the industry to global health and what can be done to protect workers?

Thomson Reuters Foundation

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GOOD NEWS

Ethiopia’s water man brings water home

After living in Germany for 16 years, Fekadu Aleka decided to go back home to improve living conditions there. His latest project is providing public institutions and private households with access to clean water.

Deutsche Welle

Bolivian teacher gives classes as superhero

In Bolivia’s capital, a schoolteacher lives out his childhood dreams while transforming the lockdown-limited lives of his students with virtual classes while dressed up as superheroes such as Spiderman or Flash.

ABC News

Twins achieve high honor at same high school

A set of twins who have been named valedictorian and salutatorian at the same high school are separated by minutes in age, and a mere one one-hundredth of a point in GPA celebrate their achievements in lockdown.

Good Morning America

NONPROFIT & PHILANTHROPY

Rio cartels assist locals with virus needs

With Brazil’s president absent from COVID-19 relief, the gangs have stepped up. Where before they peddled narcotics with the rule of the gun, now they also push curfews, social distancing and food handouts for the neediest.

CNN

Famous chef feeds COVID hit neighborhoods

Chef and World Central Kitchen founder José Andrés has been delivering meals to food-insecure areas that have been hit particularly hard by COVID-19.

BBC

ENVIRONMENT

Vultures become most threatened bird group

Unlovely vultures play a vital role as nature’s clean-up squad but are now one of the most threatened groups of birds on the planet. Conservationists are calling for more to be done to save these unloved birds of prey.

Guardian

Colombia receives forest protection funds

Britain pledged on Friday to give Colombia $80M to help the South American nation protect its threatened tropical forests as part of a new four-year conservation program targeting areas with high deforestation rates.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Brazil attempts to stop Amazon deforestation

Civil society groups and public prosecutors in Brazil are taking President Jair Bolsonaro’s government to court for failing to protect the Amazon rainforest.

Deutsche Welle

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

China outmaneuvers US oil sanctions

Last year, China replaced the United States as the No. 1 importer of oil from Venezuela amid U.S. sanctions on the country in a bid to topple socialism, yet another front in the rivalry between Washington and Beijing.

Reuters

Mexico loses 1M tax-paying jobs due to virus

Mexican job losses exceed 1 million as the economy shed nearly 350,000 formal jobs due to the coronavirus lockdown, entering the country’s deepest recession in decades,

Reuters

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Children of the Rohingya refugees seen playing with water in one of the many IDP camps located on the border of Myanmar and Bangladesh. (Photo by Pierre Prakash) Photo used under CC BY

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