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Many rape survivors are made to suffer twice — first from the trauma of sexual violence and again from the ostracism of a conservative society that abandons them when they most need support. (Photo by Tommy Trenchard/ Caritas/ CAFOD) Photo used under CC BY

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Rohingya families shun pregnant rape victims

In traditional Rohingya Muslim society, rape brings shame to households. Any resulting pregnancies are viewed as heaping even more disgrace on families, according to counselors working in the refugee camps.

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SBS News

India rejects religious argument for FGM

The Indian government has sought to ban female genital mutilation and has told the Supreme Court it was opposed to any such practice in the name of religion as it violates integrity of a woman’s body part.

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The New Indian Express

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Female genital mutilation: facts you need to know about the practice

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Guardian

Kids fleeing Venezuela left hungry, sick, abandoned

Over 1 million Venezuelans have fled into Colombia in less than two years, many of them young children who are sleeping on the streets, suffering from hunger and untreated infections, and sometimes being lured into sex work.

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WTOP

Reports of slavery in British car washes

Public reports of suspected forced labour in the British car wash industry are not translating into prosecutions, it has emerged.

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Guardian

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Australia proposes law to stop ‘modern slavery’

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U.S. News & World Report

UAE, Yemen forces accused of torture

Human rights group Amnesty International has accused the United Arab Emirates and Yemeni forces of arbitrary detentions, torture and secret prisons in southern Yemen. Amnesty said there should be an investigation for possible war crimes.

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Ukraine’s sex workers seek safety online

As police are accused of corruption and bribery against sex workers, women take to online networks to share information and advice on how to work safely.

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Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

UN funds to aid displaced Ethiopians

The UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund released US$15 million to scale up assistance to people by escalating inter-communal violence in Ethiopia. Historical tensions between communities in southern Ethiopia have escalated leading to large-scale displacements, damage of properties and loss of life.

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CNBC

Algeria halts refugee expulsions to Sahara

Algeria’s expulsions of migrants and refugees into the Sahara Desert have nearly come to a halt after widespread condemnation and the abrupt firing of two top security officials.

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Al Jazeera

More than 100 die in bomb attacks on poll rallies

A suicide bomber has killed at least 128 people at a campaign rally in south-western Pakistan - the deadliest attack in the country since 2014.

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BBC

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Nations seek to combat Venezuelan corruption

Colombia’s Finance Minister Mauricio Cardenas hosted a meeting with officials from Mexico, Panama, and the United States to share information on Venezuelan government officials suspected of corruption.

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Reuters

UN experts off to Myanmar after Rohingya deal

The United Nations is preparing to send teams of experts into Myanmar’s Rakhine state to begin work aimed at eventually repatriating Rohingya Muslims who fled violence last year, the regional head of the United Nations development agency said.

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Reuters

Sudan extends ceasefire with rebels

Sudan has extended until the end of this year a three-year-old unilateral ceasefire with rebels fighting in three parts of the country, the presidential palace said, as Khartoum pushes to end years of civil war and improve its economy.

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Reuters

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South Sudan extend interim mandate for 3 years

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News24

Doc lays out violent history of DR-Congo

The film is about the conflicts in the Congo, a huge country roughly two-thirds the size of Western Europe. These conflicts have been described as “Africa’s World War,” occurring for more than 20 years. It has claimed up to 6 million lives, either as a direct result of the fighting or from disease and malnutrition.

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

T cell engineering advance eschews viruses

In an achievement that has significant implications for medicine, scientists have genetically reprogrammed the human immune cells known as T cells without using viruses to insert DNA. The techniques are expected to accelerate the development of new and safer treatments for cancer and other diseases.

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ScienceDaily

Edible cultivated tissue: Is that stuff meat?

There may be a turf war on between two U.S. federal agencies over who will regulate the emerging industry of cultured meat, but you wouldn’t know it from the presentations by the Food and Drug Administration.

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Science Magazine

GLOBAL HEALTH

UN: Family planning is key to poverty reduction

The UN Population Fund has said that family planning is key to poverty reduction and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

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Vanguard

Experts advocate family planning for sustainable development

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Blog

Academics ponder epidemic readiness

Somewhere, a virus could jump into humans and become the next epidemic. By the time the Ebola outbreak ended in 2016, it had killed over 10,000 people and infected nearly 30,000. Researchers had developed a vaccine in the lab and yet the epidemic still had dire implications. Are we ready for the next epidemic?

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GOOD NEWS

Genocide survivor is helping refugees heal

Esther Mujawayo-Keiner knows what trauma feels like. She lost most of her family in the 1994 genocide. Now she works in Germany as a trauma therapist for African refugees.

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Rohingya refugees are working to prepare safer shelters before monsoon season

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NPR

Lip-sync battles put funk into law enforcement

Remember “Cop Rock”? It’s happening for real. Police departments across the U.S. have crafted entertaining entries for a viral lip-sync challenge that has cops dancing and singing to catchy tunes while in full uniform.

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CNET News

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Song-and-dance cop videos become social media sensation

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CBS News

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

What happens before a nonprofit is born?

As a general rule, we say a nonprofit is born the moment it has been officially registered by the IRS, but reducing nonprofit birth to the act of registration is to simplify and ignore critical aspects of the organizing process.

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Nonprofit Quarterly

Investment in civil society could end diseases

To deal with global health challenges, representatives of civil society press for prioritizing marginalized groups. In the fight against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, civil society is an instrumental partner in advocacy and implementation.

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

ENVIRONMENT

Deforestation ticks up in Brazil’s Cerrado

Deforestation in the Cerrado, a vast wooded savannah bordering the southern and eastern Brazilian Amazon, increased significantly over the past two years, while scientists also warn that environmental enforcement in the region remains weak compared to the Amazon.

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Scientific American

Intensified farming doesn’t aid environment

Agricultural intensification, increasing productivity or profitability of agricultural land, tends to get high priority as a strategy for sustainable food production. This rarely leads to benefits for ecosystem services like biodiversity and human well-being.

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SciDev

Climate change is fueling conflict, extremism

An African woman whose people are nomads constantly searching for food and water told Security Council members that they must consider climate change as a security risk that is fueling extremism, conflict and migration.

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Trump policy on ocean overlooks the unheard

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National Geographic

ECONOMY

New tech opens markets for Kenyan farmers

Farmers lose tons of food due to different reasons that can be avoided. Over 500 Kenyan farmers have found solace in a ready market for horticultural produce, due to an air dryer.

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The Exchange

WhatsApp access could promote food security

A motorbike and reliable connectivity to watch football and chat on WhatsApp are the key to keeping young Africans in farming, a senior UN official said, as large-scale urban migration threatens food production on the continent.

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Reuters

Saudi Arabia to invest S. Africa’s energy sector

Saudi Arabia is to pump $10 billion worth of investment into South Africa, to be focused on its troubled energy sector, according to a South African government spokesperson.

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CNBC

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The Tiaohuacha (aka Tiaohuapo) Festival of the Long-horn Miao in Longga, Guizhou. (Photo by Carsten ten Brink) Photo used under CC BY

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