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An activist holds a sign calling for repeal of Section 377 at the Delhi Pride Parade in 2008. Section 377, an archaic law imposed during British rule that penalized intercourse “against the order of nature,” had carried a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. The Indian Supreme Court has struck down the law. (Photo by Jesse Rapczak) Photo used under CC BY

India’s Supreme Court decriminalizes gay sex

India’s Supreme Court has struck down a colonial-era law criminalizing consensual gay sex, overturning more than 150 years of anti-LGBT legislation.

CNN

Celebrations in India as court legalizes gay sex

Guardian

Idlib’s 3M civilians gird for Syrian army assault

Civilians in Syria’s last major stronghold of active opposition to President Bashar al-Assad’s rule are preparing food and digging shelters ahead of an expected army offensive. Around 3 million people live in the region.

Reuters

The worst may be yet to come in Syria

The Atlantic

EU struggles to root out trafficking, exploitation

European nations are struggling to stop migrant workers being abused and treated like modern-day slaves, as exploitative bosses — in sectors from construction to farming — dupe labor inspectors, an EU agency has said.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Qatar lifts exit permits for migrant workers

Al Jazeera

Mauritanian women face jail for reporting rape

Women and girls in Mauritania who are raped are often unwilling to report the crime out of fear that they themselves will be jailed for breaking the west African nation’s strict laws on sex outside marriage.

News24

When reporting sexual assault, Rohingya women are being lost in translation

PRI

Formaldehyde a new risk in China’s housing

The recent death of a flat-dweller in Beijing has flagged up concerns about formaldehyde, a carcinogenic substance widely used in construction in some paints and disinfectants.

BBC

Guatemala bans UN anti-corruption prosecutor

Rights officials and activists have warned that the rule of law in Guatemala is under threat after a UN-backed special prosecutor was banned from re-entering the country.

Guardian

HUMAN RIGHTS

Palestinians protest devastating US cuts

Palestinians have expressed their dismay at the decision by the U.S. to cut funding to the UN’s Palestine refugee program, warning it could see the total collapse of communities as well as any hopes of a peace deal.

The Independent

New UN rights chief has survived torture

Former Chilean President Bachelet was 23 years old when she was tortured and fled her country’s dictatorship. Now, more than four decades later, she will fight such abuses worldwide as the new U.N. human rights chief.

ABC News

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Australian police round up fleeing migrants

Australian authorities have found all 17 suspected asylum seekers who fled into crocodile-infested mangroves in the Daintree rainforest when their boat ran aground in northern Queensland.

CNN

Expired passports no problem for Venezuelans

Eleven Latin American countries say that they have agreed to allow Venezuelans leaving their homeland to enter their countries even if their travel documents have expired.

BBC

Critic hides after Duterte calls for his arrest

A Philippines lawmaker is set to spend several nights holed up in the Senate after the country’s president, Rodrigo Duterte, announced he was seeking his arrest over coup attempts that happened over a decade ago.

CNN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

World Bank pours millions into African science

The initiative has set up education and research centers in Africa, created jobs for scientists and has trained thousands of students — but both critics and supporters of the program worry about when the bank’s money runs out.

Nature

Animals more active at night thanks to humans

In areas where people are pushing into the sun bear’s domain, the animals are spending 90 percent of their waking time after dark. Effectively, the threat of human presence is making the sun bear nocturnal.

National Geographic

GLOBAL HEALTH

UN holds meeting on Asian swine fever outbreak

The United Nations is holding an emergency meeting this week with animal health experts in Asia to discuss the threat of African swine fever after the first outbreak of the disease in the region was discovered in China last month.

Reuters

Poor-quality health care kills millions each year

When it comes to health, quality — not quantity — seems to be more important. Some 5 million people die every year because of poor-quality health care in low- and middle-income countries.

Southern California Public Radio

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GOOD NEWS

Pizzeria allows people to pay what they can

New Albany, Indiana’s 8th St. Pizza serves food three days a week. It allows guests to pay whatever they can. “We have folks that have never paid and we have folks that pay sometimes, and that’s OK,” said the executive director of the nonprofit that runs it.

WLKY

Astronomer uses prize money to lift students

One of the UK’s leading female astronomers is to donate her winnings from a major science prize. The sum will go to fund women, under-represented ethnic minority and refugee students to become physics researchers.

BBC

PHILANTHROPY AND NONPROFITS

Nonprofit boosts literacy on cashless islands

The nonprofit has been helping to raise children’s literacy levels in the six English-speaking island nations in the Caribbean.

MSN

Nonprofits broke financial records in 2017

In 2017, people gave more than ever before to charity – with annual donations reportedly up and totaling $410 billion. That’s because acting generous is both en vogue and a good way to take advantage of tax write-offs.

Fast Company

ENVIRONMENT

Rising global temps cause insect crop losses

Rising global temperatures are leading to a boom in the number of insects devouring crops, and could cause future food shortages.

ABC News

2018 climate economy report by the UN chief

YouTube

Disposable diapers cause crisis in Java rivers

A movement works to tackle the dumping of disposable diapers into rivers across Java Island every year. Used diapers contain a long list of chemical components that don’t degrade easily, contaminating river ecosystems.

Mongabay

ECONOMY

Fears rise in Iran as currency crashes

Iran’s rial fell to a record low as worried residents of Tehran lined up outside moneychangers, part of a staggering drop in the currency’s value since America pulled out of the nuclear deal only four months ago.

USA TODAY

Emerging market woes weigh on stocks

Emerging market stocks led declines in indexes across the globe as investors positioned themselves more defensively while a deadline in the U.S.-China trade conflict loomed and U.S.-Canada trade talks resumed.

Reuters

Do emerging economies really matter to the overall markets?

CNBC

Nigerian off-grid solar market poised for growth

Axios

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Women and children among Syrian refugees striking at the platform of Budapest Keleti railway station in Budapest, Hungary, on 4 September 2015. (Photo by Mstyslav Chernov) Photo used under CC BY

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