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High school ban drives Afghan girls to madrasas

Girls enroll in madrasas, or religious schools, after the Taliban banned secular high school education for female students. Some fear the loss of professional career prospects.

Reuters

Ruling Taliban display rare division in public over bans

Associated Press

Female journalists in Iran targeted in arrests

Female journalists in Iran have been targeted by security forces since anti-government protests began in September, according to activist groups.

BBC

Rohingya refugees aid earthquake survivors

Driven from Myanmar by military action in 2017, the impoverished Rohingya are digging deep to donate relief to earthquake survivors.

Guardian

What’s needed for earthquake recovery?

Al Jazeera

Riots erupt in Nigeria cities amid cash scarcity

Rioters have attacked bank ATMs and blocked roads in three Nigerian cities as anger spilled on the streets over a scarcity of cash.

Guardian

Nigerian leader defends currency swap as pain, protests grow

Associated Press

Zelensky rules out territory deal with Putin

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has ruled out giving up any of his country’s territory in a potential peace deal with Russia.

BBC

Lebanese protestors smash, burn Beirut banks

Lebanese protesters attacked banks in a Beirut neighborhood, while blocking roads protesting against restrictions on cash withdrawals.

Reuters

HUMAN RIGHTS

Tunisia parliament deals blow to women’s gains

Tunisia has been seen as a leader on women‘s rights in the Arab world, but electoral reforms introduced by President Saied ahead of the country’s controversial recent election made it harder for female candidates to run for office.

Context

Women in parliament: Which countries are making progress?

Context

Abused women find freedom in Kenyan village

Since it was established over 30 years ago, Kenya’s Umoja village has provided a refuge for women from the Samburu community and beyond fleeing female genital mutilation, domestic abuse or child marriage.

Reuters

Domestic helpers in India at risk of exploitation

Indian police rescued a battered 14-year-old from a Delhi suburban home where she worked as a domestic helper. Experts say such workers are vulnerable to exploitation because of a lack of legal safeguards to protect them.

BBC

Violence against alleged looters in quake zone

In Hatay, Turkey, grief has turned to fear and anger. Videos are circulating online of violence against alleged looters.

Deutsche Welle

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Afghans in US could lose deportation protection

Thousands of Afghan refugees who were evacuated to the U.S. after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in 2021 are at risk of losing their work permits and deportation protections this summer unless Congress acts.

CBS News

Canada to send navy to Haiti amid violence

Canada will send navy vessels to the coast of Haiti to gather intelligence as the Caribbean nation continues to reel from economic and political insecurity as well as violence, much of it driven by organized criminal groups.

Al Jazeera

Racism drove lethal police response in Peru

Peru used “excessive and lethal force” driven by “marked racist bias” against a largely indigenous and campesino population, Amnesty International has concluded, following an investigation of the protests.

Guardian

Nicaragua strips 94 dissidents of citizenship

In its continuing crackdown on dissent, Nicaragua has stripped 94 people of their citizenship. Analysts say this marks a deepening authoritarianism in Nicaragua.

NPR

Are anti-terror laws silencing the Indian press?

Many journalists and activists allege that the government is using anti-terror laws to silence dissent and weaken the fundamental right to free speech.

Deutsche Welle

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Nigeria election triggers deluge of ‘fake news’

Experts and activists say political actors have expanded the scope of misinformation ahead of the 2023 general elections in Nigeria.

Al Jazeera

African gig platforms fail to protect women

From Johannesburg to Cairo, domestic workers are joining gig platforms for work but face low pay and few safety nets.

Context

GLOBAL HEALTH

WHO confirms deadly MVD in Equatorial Guinea

Nine people have died in Equatorial Guinea from an “outbreak” of Marburg virus (MVD), the country’s health minister and the World Health Organization (WHO) said. The hemorrhagic fever is nearly as deadly as Ebola.

USA TODAY

New Marburg outbreak sparks race to test vaccines

Devex

What is Marburg virus, how does it spread?

The Independent

Bolivia struggles against fatal dengue outbreak

Hospitals in Bolivia’s eastern Santa Cruz region have struggled to keep up with an outbreak of dengue that has killed at least 26 people, the largest outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Associated Press

Bird flu continues to spread to new countries

Avian flu has reached new corners of the globe and become endemic for the first time in some wild birds that transmit the virus to poultry, according to veterinarians and disease experts who warn it is now a year-round problem.

Reuters

Africa Mpox vaccines to arrive within 2 weeks

Africa’s public health body says it hopes Mpox vaccines will finally arrive on the continent “in another two weeks, tops” after months of seeking doses.

Associated Press

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GOOD NEWS

The ‘bin-novative’ approach slashing litter

Using AI and a healthy dose of creative thinking, the Neat Streets campaign has helped to reduce litter by up to 75 percent in Bournemouth, England. Now the approach is being successfully deployed elsewhere.

Positive News

Rio’s all-female samba school defies patriarchy

This year, Rio’s first all-female TPM samba school will make its debut in Rio’s lowest-tier samba league. “Here, a woman can express her desires, her ideas, her opinions, which increases self-esteem,” says TPM member.

Associated Press

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

UN launches $1B appeal to help quake victims

The United Nations launched an appeal for $1 billion to help victims in Turkey of last week’s catastrophic earthquake that killed thousands of people and left millions more in desperate need of aid.

France 24

See drone footage of what Turkey region looks like 10 days after quake

CNN

Anger in north-west Syria at slow earthquake response

Guardian

UN: Nigerians hit by extremism need $1.3B

At least 6 million Nigerians affected by the extremist insurgency in northeastern Nigeria need $1.3 billion in aid this year, according to the U.N. office in Nigeria.

Yahoo! News

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

8K perished trying to reach Europe since 2019

Save the Children said in a report that about a half million people crossed or attempted to cross the Mediterranean to Europe since 2019. Of those, 8,468 people died or went missing in the Mediterranean, the charity added.

Associated Press

N. Korea continues to suffer from food crisis

A North Korean food crisis appears to have deteriorated, South Korea said, as a newspaper reported that North Korea has cut rations to its soldiers for the first time in more than two decades.

Reuters

Tunisians feeling brunt of economic crisis

Tunisians are increasingly feeling the brunt of a growing economic crisis. Rising prices, inflation and low salaries have seen the standard of living plummet in recent years.

France 24

ENVIRONMENT

Rising seas may be fatal for some countries

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned of the threat posed by rising sea levels to hundreds of millions of people living in low-lying coastal areas and small island states.

Al Jazeera

Senegal suffering devastating coastal erosion

NPR

Why the EPA puts a higher value on rich lives lost to climate change

NPR

Spanish island harvests water from fog

Drought and wildfires are major problems on Gran Canaria. But there is water in the fog that shrouds the Spanish island. Fog catchers are now being used to collect water for saplings planted in areas devastated by fire.

Deutsche Welle

Vast glacier at mercy of sea warmth increase

Antarctic glaciers may be more sensitive to changes in sea temperature than was thought, new research shows.

BBC

Photo of the Day

Girls study the Quran at a Koranic school in in old town of Djenné, designated a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1988. (Photo by UN Photo/Marco Dormino) Photo used under CC BY

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