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Rape victims in DRC who have been successfully reintegrated into their communities assemble in a “peace hut” near Walungu, South Kivu in DRC. (Photo by L. Werchick / USAID) Photo used under CC BY

In DRC, stigma of rape fosters poverty, prostitution

Women raped in the DRC fear being rejected by their families, often leading to a vicious cycle of poverty and prostitution. A local aid organization is working to help victims and change attitudes.

Deutsche Welle

The slow road to recovery for rape survivors in the DRC

Al Jazeera

Movie challenges India’s menstruation taboo

“Pad Man,” an Indian movie about an inventor who created a revolutionary machine that makes cheap sanitary pads, hits screens this week, challenging taboos surrounding menstruation in socially conservative India.

Globalnews.ca

Not a dirty word: Indian girls shatter menstruation myths

Reuters

Boys — hidden victims of global sex trafficking

The sex trafficking of boys is far more common than is often acknowledged by anti-trafficking organizations, law enforcement and the news media. Boys make up about 36 percent of children caught up in the U.S. sex industry.

USA TODAY

Sex trafficking: The new American slavery

CNN

Italy: 10,000 migrants in ‘deplorable’ conditions

Ten thousand migrants are living in “deplorable” conditions in Italy without shelter, food and clean water, Médecins Sans Frontières has warned in a damning indictment of the country’s border practices.

The Independent

In Italy, an all-refugee winter sports team

Politico

Myanmar ‘starving out’ Rohingya in Rakhine

Authorities in Myanmar have robbed, abducted and deliberately starved Rohingya men, women and children, in an effort to make life “so intolerable” for members of the minority group that they will leave the country.

Al Jazeera

N., S. Korea march together at winter games

In an extraordinary show of unexpected unity, North and South Korea sat side by side under exploding fireworks that represented peace, not destruction, as the 2018 Winter Olympics opened on the Korean Peninsula.

TIME

HUMAN RIGHTS

Canada to clamp down on arms export

Canada plans to clamp down on arms exports to ensure the armaments it sells abroad are not used to commit human rights abuses, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said.

Reuters

Duterte faces rights violations inquiry

The ICC has launched an initial inquiry into allegations of crimes against humanity committed by Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippine president, in his brutal anti-drugs crusade.

Guardian

Canada selling weapons to Philippines despite human rights concerns

Guardian

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Awkward diplomacy as ‘peace’ Games begin

The Winter Olympics sparked to life in a vivid, colourful ceremony of fire and ice in South Korea, though the diplomacy was tougher to choreograph as leaders from nations that are sworn enemies sat close together.

Reuters

Putin’s foe pursues politics by other means

The Kremlin’s most vocal critic, Alexei Navalny, runs his nationwide opposition network from a desk strewn with papers in a cramped corner office of his Anti-Corruption Foundation, housed in a nondescript Moscow business center.

NPR

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

NASA shares most distant picture ever taken

A new image of objects in the distant Kuiper Belt, shared by Nasa was beamed back to Earth from the New Horizons spacecraft, which shot the data 3.79 billion miles back to us.

The Independent

‘Walking’ fish advance evolution theory

Land-based animals and fish share the same circuitry today, their last common ancestor — an ancient fish that existed 420 million years ago — probably also had that circuitry and used it to move around beneath the water, according to new research.

Phys.org

GLOBAL HEALTH

First human eggs grown in laboratory

Human eggs have been grown in the laboratory for the first time, say researchers at the University of Edinburgh. The team say the technique could lead to new ways of preserving the fertility of children having cancer treatment.

BBC

Burkina Faso: A cervical cancer clinic on wheels

Low- and middle-income countries like Burkina Faso bear 70 percent of the global burden of cervical cancer. A group pf volunteers from a pool of more than 20 Burkinabe doctors and 40 nurses and midwives — take the mobile exam room on the road.

NPR

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GOOD NEWS

Fire victims get generous donation

Brittany and Zyaire Richardson lost everything in a house fire. Kristen McKenzie, who saw the story on TV, immediately took action and was able to connect with the Richardsons to give them a generous donation in gift cards to local stores and restaurants.

MSN

Message in a bottle found 30 years later

A Scot child’s message in a bottle put in the water more than 30 years ago showed up 4,000 miles away on a Florida beach where it was discovered by a couple inspecting damage from Hurricane Irma.

NewsMax

NONPROFIT AND PHILANTHROPY

Philanthropy — the forgotten investment asset

Smart investors realize that philanthropy is much more than charity. Philanthropy is an investment tool that can transform outcomes for ourselves and for the world.

Forbes

The problem with capitalist philanthropy

Jacobin

IRS settles last nonprofit targeting case

More than seven years after suing because the IRS failed to take action on its application for tax exemption, the Pennsylvania-based Z Street nonprofit organization has entered into a “consent order” with the federal government.

NonProfit Quarterly

ENVIRONMENT

What is the future of animal testing?

Recent tests of car exhaust on monkeys have renewed the debate around animal testing. While researchers say eliminating animal testing is impossible, they agree there are alternatives that are less cruel.

Deutsche Welle

How you can help end animal testing in cosmetics

Forbes

Will a good life for all destroy the planet?

A new study in the journal Nature Sustainability poses a question not often considered: As we improve the human condition — building sanitation facilities and expanding farming to provide more food, for example — do we necessarily damage the environment?

NPR

ECONOMY

France and Iran strengthen business ties

France will continue to encourage its firms to do business in Iran in spite of objections raised by US President Donald Trump on the landmark 2015 nuclear deal, a senior French finance official said.

Al Jazeera

German workers win right to 28-hour week

From next year, workers at many of Germany’s top engineering firms -- such as Mercedes-Benz owner Daimler (DDAIF) -- can opt to work 28 hours a week for up to two years, before returning to the standard 35-hour week.

CNNMoney

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Participants in the 2014 Pride Parade in Chicago. (Photo by Jamie Bernstein) Photo used under CC BY

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