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Violence forces refugees to flee Afghanistan again

Almost three-quarters of Afghan refugees who return home are forced to flee again due to violence, according to a survey that found the vast majority of displaced families do not receive aid assistance.

Guardian

Afghan refugees in Pakistan face mass deportation

Deutsche Welle

Mexico‘s drug cartels cripple nation’s refineries

Fuel theft is fast becoming one of Mexico’s most pressing economic and security dilemmas, sapping more than $1 billion in annual revenue from state coffers, terrorizing workers and deterring private investment in aging refineries.

Reuters

Mexico registers its highest number of homicides on record

NPR

Videos reveal torments of migrants in Libya

Disturbing video clips shared on social media by their desperate families have revealed the ordeal of Sudanese migrants kidnapped and tortured for ransom in Libya. The men’s relatives say they disseminated these videos on social media in a bid to raise awareness.

CNN

Slavery in Libya: Life inside a container

Al Jazeera

The Libyan slave trade: Here’s what you should know

TIME

Dodging death along Alpine migrant passage

Along the dangerous Alpine route from Italy to France, young migrants are desperate to reach northern Europe, and the local volunteers are trying to make sure their villages are not another deadly stop on the migration trail.

News Deeply

Alpine crossing: refugees battle extreme weather to reach France

Guardian

Violence mars release of Bollywood film

Hindu right-wing groups have vandalized public and private properties and attacked cinema halls across five Indian states protesting the release of the film “Padmaavat.”

Al Jazeera

India’s free speech problem

The Atlantic

HUMAN RIGHTS

LGBT teens in US risk ’gay conversion therapy’

An estimated 20,000 American teenagers age 13 to 17 will go through an attempt to change their sexual orientation, according to researchers at the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law.

The Independent

Trump plans offers citizenship path to Dreamers

U.S. President Donald Trump is proposing a plan that provides a path to citizenship for 1.8 million of the so-called Dreamer immigrants, tighter restrictions on legal immigration and $25 billion in border security, the White House said

CBC News

South Asians in the US: The other ‘Dreamers’ facing uncertain future

BBC

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Uruguay farmers mass protest over high costs

Tens of thousands of Uruguayan farmers held a protest in the city of Durazno on Tuesday to demand more government support for their industry. Agriculture is key to the economy of Uruguay, which is one of the world’s largest cattle exporters.

BBC

Maduro ready to stand in early presidential poll

Venezuela’s pro-government Constituent Assembly has ordered fresh elections before the end of April. President Nicolás Maduro told thousands of his supporters at a rally that he is ready to seek another six-year term.

BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Oldest human fossil outside Africa discovered

Part of an upper jaw with teeth found in Israel shows that modern humans ventured out of Africa much earlier than previously thought.

National Geographic

Plastic pollution is killing coral reefs

A new study based on four years of diving on 159 reefs in the Pacific shows that reefs are heavily contaminated with plastic. It clings to the coral, especially branching coral. And where it clings, it sickens or kills.

NPR

GLOBAL HEALTH

Zombie viruses in the thawing permafrost?

There’s a new fear from climate change: bacteria and viruses buried in frozen ground coming back to life as the Arctic warms up.

NPR

Brazil to vaccinate 24M against yellow fever

Brazil is vaccinating more than 20 million people against yellow fever to control a budding outbreak. WHO says that the campaign is the largest ever using reduced doses that provide short-term coverage but cover more people with the same amount of vaccine.

ABC News

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Michael Bociurkiw):

The world is in a worse state than you probably realize

CNN

Column (Katie Packer Beeson):

We failed the victims of Larry Nassar

U.S. News & World Report

Column (Ajaz Ashraf):

Narendra Modi: A false crusader for women’s rights

Al Jazeera

Column (Matt Ford):

Jeff Sessions’s American crime story

The New Republic

Column (Pedro Rossello):

Puerto Rico has become a colonial ghetto; Time to make it the 51st state.

USA TODAY

Column (Paul Hockenos):

Anti-Semitism is still alive in Germany 70 years after the Holocaust

CNN

Column (Afua Hirsch):

I’ve had enough of white people who try to deny my experience

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

Grammy-winning teacher shares love of music

When Melissa Salguero first arrived at P.S. 48 in the Bronx seven years ago, there was no school song and no instruments. Now, the proud Tigers of P.S. 48 have an award-winning teacher and music throughout the halls.

CBS News

Nonprofit combats homelessness with running

Back on My Feet, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit that, in the words of its mission statement, “combats homelessness through the power of running, community support and essential employment and housing resources.”

MSN

NONPROFIT AND PHILANTHROPY

ACLU reverses prison bans on ‘New Jim Crow’

The American Civil Liberties Union is amassing an impressive track record on a particular issue: reversing prison bans on Michelle Alexander’s book “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.”

Nonprofit Quarterly

Human services agencies in financial trouble

More than 218,000 human services community-based organizations collectively have the economic impact equivalent of the airline industry yet many are skating on thin ice.

NonProfit Times

ENVIRONMENT

‘Skeptic’ heads up EU environment policy

Neno Dimov, who once called climate change a fraud and described himself as an opponent of climate science, has taken over as the president of the EU’s Environment Council. He will coordinate the EU’s environment policy for the next six months.

Forbes

Can ‘carbon law’ help businesses save the climate?

Deutsche Welle

Climate stress imperils California vegetation

Current levels of greenhouse gas emissions are putting nearly half of California’s natural vegetation at risk from climate stress. However, cutting emissions so that global temperatures increase by no more than 2 degrees Celsius could reduce those impacts by half.

ScienceDaily

BUSINESS AND TRADE

Forget Davos; Dandora holds key to inequality

As champagne and caviar wash down tough talk of world problems in Davos, the stench of rotten rubbish lingers over an alternative summit in Kenya aimed at tackling the chasm between rich and poor.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

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Hunger persists in the shadow of abundance

Nonprofit Quarterly

42 billionaires rival poorest 3.7B people

A new billionaire is created every other day. The three richest Americans have the same amount of wealth as the poorest half of the U.S. population. And 82% of the global wealth generated last year went to just 1% of the world’s population.

USA TODAY

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A young girl riding a motorcycle in the rice fields in Don Det, Laos, with four young passengers. (Photo by Basile Morin) Photo used under CC BY

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