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Two unemployed construction workers wait for day jobs on the side of the Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral. (Photo by El Mundo de Laura) Photo used under CC BY

Mexico’s focus on poverty permits surge of violence

Mexico’s president has permitted the violence that has raged for years in many parts of the country, including areas close to its border with the United States, to become far worse.

Asia Times Online

Turkey urged to tackle rise in women’s murders

The World Health Organization’s data says 38 percent of women in Turkey are subject to violence from a partner in their lifetime. Last year, men murdered 440 women in Turkey according to unofficial data, more than doubling from 2012.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Special section:

The war on women, in 5 charts

U.S. News & World Report

‘I felt I was going to die’: Battling domestic violence in Iraq

Al Jazeera

Latin American spring not on region’s horizon

From Chile to Ecuador and Bolivia to Haiti police and protesters are clashing on the streets, but what are the common threads and will they lead to change?

Guardian

Lebanon president willing to meet protesters

Lebanese President Michel Aoun has expressed willingness to meet protesters to find the best solution for the country’s worsening economic crisis, and suggested a government reshuffle was on the table.

Al Jazeera

16 face death for murder of Bangladeshi youth

A Bangladesh court has sentenced 16 people to death for the murder of a student set on fire after accusing her teacher of sexual harassment. The murder of Nusrat Jahan Rafi, 19, shocked the country and sparked protests.

BBC

Uganda detains LGBTQ activists under law

A group of 16 activists were subject to forced anal examinations by police and detained on suspicion of engaging in homosexual acts. Gay sex is punishable by life in prison in Uganda with plans to introduce the death penalty.

Deutsche Welle

Factbox: Beyond Uganda and Brunei, eight countries rolling back LGBTQ rights

Thomson Reuters Foundation

HUMAN RIGHTS

EU awards jailed Uighur activist rights prize

The European Parliament awarded its annual prize for the defense of human rights to jailed ethnic Uighur economics professor Ilham Tohti, angering Beijing which called him a criminal and a terrorist.

Reuters

39 dead in one of UK’s worst trafficking cases

Investigators were trying to piece together the movements of a large cargo truck found containing the bodies of 39 people in one of Britain’s worst people smuggling tragedies.

Associated Press

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Brazil passes much-debated pension reforms

In a victory for President Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s Senate passed the final amendments to a much-debated pension reform. This will create a retirement age, contribute to workers’ pension to calculate benefits.

BBC

Tunisian leader vows to fight for women’s rights

Tunisia’s newly elected president has vowed to fight hard for women’s rights during his first address to the nation after being sworn in at the country’s parliament.

Associated Press

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

‘Artificial leaf’ successfully produces clean gas

A widely-used gas that is currently produced from fossil fuels can instead be made by an ‘artificial leaf’ that uses only sunlight, carbon dioxide and water, and which could develop a sustainable liquid fuel alternative to gasoline.

ScienceDaily

Humans changing animal genetic diversity?

Human population density and land use is causing changes in animal genetic diversity, according to researchers at McGill University.

Phys.org

GLOBAL HEALTH

Underpaid women subsidize health care globally

The world is currently facing the largest health care worker shortage in history and Dr. Raj Panjabi, CEO and founder of Last Mile Health, believes frontline caregivers are a solution but doctors are standing in the way.

TIME

When pharmacies close, low-income neighborhoods lose

Forbes

Hospitals around world facing blood shortage

NPR

Hunger puts N. Korea kids at risk of early death

Nearly half of North Korea’s population are undernourished. Tomas Ojea Quintana said 140,000 children are estimated to be suffering from “undernutrition,” including 30,000 who “face an increased risk of death.”

The Independent

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GOOD NEWS

Kenya tests pilot breast milk bank for babies

The Ministry of Health and the African Population and Health Research Center set up Kenya’s first breast milk bank as a pilot to see if similar banks can be set up in the country.

Reuters

Lebanese protesters sing ‘Baby Shark’ to a toddler

CNN

Student opens free health clinic for uninsured

Caroline Hensley, a University of Cincinnati medical student opened a free health clinic called The Healing Center to help provide health care for the uninsured.

MSN

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Craigslist founder donates to fight fake news

A nonprofit that combats disinformation campaigns says it hopes to reach and train thousands of U.S. journalists soon with the help of a $1.5 million donation from Craigslist founder Craig Newmark.

ABC News

NIH, Gates strive to bring genetic cures to poor

The National Institutes of Health and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will together invest at least $200 million to develop gene-based cures for sickle cell disease and HIV in resource-poor countries like Africa.

STAT

Martin Richard Foundation donates $1M to Project 351

CBS News

ENVIRONMENT

Sea birds mistaking rubber bands for worms

Sea birds have been mistaking rubber bands for worms, according to a new theory by a UK conservation charity that has been monitoring bird colonies on an uninhabited island off the UK’s southwestern tip.

CNN

London’s pollution falls after emission rules

London says toxic air pollution has fallen by roughly a third inside a central urban zone where drivers are required to meet specific emission standards or pay a daily fine. The city launched this zone in April.

NPR

US air pollution rose from 2016-2018

The Hill

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Argentina’s farmers anxious about economy

Argentina’s farmers are divided over who they will support in the upcoming presidential election. Opposition leader Alberto Fernandez is a clear favorite, but he is likely to impose high taxes on the farming community.

YouTube

Pharma heir becomes billionaire overnight

Eric Tse became an “insta-billionaire” after Sino Biopharmaceutical’s billionaire founder Tse Ping and his wife, Cheng Cheung Ling, gave him a fifth of the business worth $3.8 billion, Bloomberg reported.

Business Insider

In Mexico, ‘green gold’ brings riches, violence

Small-scale avocado growers armed with AR-15 rifles take turns manning a vigilante checkpoint to guard against thieves and drug cartel extortionists in the heartland of world production of the fruit locals call “green gold.”

Associated Press

Photo of the Day

Eveline Erupe, 22, brings her daughters to the Lodwar District Hospital, Kenya to receive a ration of ‘plumpy nut,’ a high-nutrition, peanut-based food supplement in September 2011. Following poor October to December 2018 rains and famine, there are now 1.1 million food-insecure people in Kenya, up from 700,000 people in August 2018 according to UNICEF. (Photo by Marisol Grandon/Department for International Development) Photo used under CC BY

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