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By learning skills like composting, crop diversification, organic pesticide production, seed multiplication and agro-forestry, farmers in Malawi are increasing their ability to feed their families over the long term. (Photo by Find Your Feet)

Bangladesh’s toxic tanneries ravage lives and environment

Bangladesh is known for its cheap, ready-made garments for U.S. and European markets, but at what human cost are these clothes produced?

Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

Stuck in the slums of Bangladesh

TIME

World’s largest volcano discovered off the coast of Japan

The largest volcano on earth — and possibly the second largest in the entire solar system — has been discovered. With a footprint of roughly 120,000 square miles, it is roughly the same size as the British Isles.

The Independent

Scientists confirm largest single volcano on Earth

Discovery News

G20 ‘divided’ on Syria as power criticizes Russia

World leaders meeting for the final day of the G20 summit in Russia remain divided over military action in Syria. Diplomats say a late night dinner hosted by Russian President Putin failed to resolve differences on how to end the conflict.

BBC

Syria divisions persist at G-20

USA TODAY

Memory of Iraq war vote lingers over Congress’ Syria decision

Al Jazeera

The Syrian refugees

New York Times

Human rights group: Thousands of N. Korean prisoners ‘disappeared’ from gulag

Tens of thousands of North Korean prisoners have “disappeared” from an enormous gulag situated in a region where there were known food shortages, prompting fears that they may have starved to death before it closed.

NBCNews.com

Kyoko Okutani helps women start businesses, skirting Japan’s gender gap

Kyoko Okutani heads Women’s World Banking Japan, part of a growing network of female entrepreneurs in a male-dominated country.

Christian Science Monitor

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Central African Republic: Humanitarian aid stalls as Cameroon’s truckers strike

A truck drivers’ strike in Cameroon over deteriorating security conditions in neighboring Central African Republic is stopping humanitarian aid from reaching thousands of children, said the U.N. Children’s Fund.

allAfrica.com

High-yield palm oil won’t be enough to halt deforestation

The cultivation of palm oil continues to expand rapidly in the humid tropics, as does the equally heated debate about the crop’s environmental and social impact.

The Conversation

Trees for Zambia: taking an axe to deforestation

Guardian

HUMAN RIGHTS

Venezuela’s withdrawal from regional human rights instrument is a serious setback

Venezuela must immediately reverse its decision to withdraw from the American Convention on Human Rights and make a commitment to truly protect all individuals.

Amnesty International

California: 2nd chance for youth offenders

The California Assembly approved a bill that offers hope and a meaningful opportunity of parole for over 5,000 youth offenders in the state.

Human Rights Watch

More cities sweeping homeless into less prominent areas

Municipalities from Seattle to Tampa have cracked down on the homeless and groups that help them. Nationally, there is an increase in cities responding to visible poverty including homelessness by criminalizing it.

NPR

Homeless in Silicon Valley: hardship In America’s innovation heartland

Business Insider

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Hypertension in the developing world: the view from Cambodia

As people in the developing world live longer, eat more and exercise less, high blood pressure is on the rise. What does that mean to a country like Cambodia?

Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

Chad malaria cases hit emergency levels

Children worst affected by tenfold increase in malaria infections, prompting emergency operation by Médecins Sans Frontières.

Guardian

Germany’s energy poverty: how electricity became a luxury good

Germany’s agressive and reckless expansion of wind and solar power has come with a hefty pricetag for consumers, and the costs often fall disproportionately on the poor. Advisors are calling for a new start.

Spiegel International

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

GM crops: African opposition is a farce, says group led by Kofi Annan

Group chaired by former U.N. secretary general urges farmers to shake fear of the unknown and adopt new technologies.

Guardian

Kenya parliament holds emergency debate on ICC pull-out

Kenya’s parliament is to hold an emergency session to debate leaving the International Criminal Court. Analysts say the motion is likely to be passed, making Kenya the first country to cancel its membership.

BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Gerald Mulwanda):

Zambia won’t have another chance

allAfrica.com

Column (Peter R Orszag):

Nonprofits are growing. What is it they do?

Bloomberg

Editorial:

Will a blow on Syria be a blow for justice?

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

Bin Donated makes unwanted items ‘gone for good’

Jud Kinnucan founded the Chicago area nonprofit group Bin Donated to collect useful items that businesses might have thrown away and give them to those in need.

Christian Science Monitor

Artist creates faces from DNA left in public

New York artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg’s new project, “Stranger Visions,” fashions portrait sculptures from bits of genetic material collected in public places.

CNN

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

India panel accuses US nonprofit of violating clinical trial norms

A committee appointed by India’s parliament has accused PATH, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit group, of violating clinical-testing norms while testing cervical cancer drugs on women and children.

International Business Times

Squatting on Kenya’s mineral wealth

According to local NGO Kenya Lands Alliance, 68 percent of Kenyan’s 41.6 million people are squatters, with the Coast Province having the largest number of undocumented land owners.

Inter Press Service

ENVIRONMENT

Kite detects pollution, shines light on Beijing smog

Until recently, Beijing’s eye-watering smog was the only reliable sign that car fumes and smoke had reached unsafe levels, but now two designers have formed a more elegant and accurate indicator of air quality.

CNN

For natural gas-fueled cars, long road looms ahead

National Geographic

China says Manila stirring up trouble on disputed shoal

China accused the Philippines of deliberately stirring up trouble over a chain of disputed reefs and rocks in the South China Sea, saying Manila was “creating trouble out of nothing” over an intrinsically Chinese territory.

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Syrian Electronic Army revealed: Anonymous hacks SEA website, dumps data

After claims that Syrian regime used chemical weapons on its own population, Anonymous struck, revealing personal information of key members within the Syrian Electronic Army.

GlobalPost

Laser-guided surgery finds brain cancer’s boundary

Laser-guided surgery could improve the odds of removing all of a brain tumor by clearly highlighting its edges, U.S. researchers say.

BBC

Photo of the Day

A couple from Bulusan, Sorsogon, Philippines repairs fishing baskets. They say the sea provides for their needs all but for the two months of the year when the weather is unsafe to fish. (Photo by Alma Gamil)

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