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Factory workers at their station on the production line in a garment factory in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Many work excessive hours, sometimes more than 50 hours of overtime a month without rest days, and still struggle to make ends meet, a new study by U.S.-based campaign group Fair Labor Association (FLA) showed. (Photo by ILO in Asia and the Pacific) Photo used under CC BY

Vietnamese workers suffer under brands’ harsh tactics

European and U.S. fashion brands sourcing from Vietnam use “harsh” tactics that push down workers’ wages and trap millions in poverty, according to labor rights campaigners.

Reuters

UN labor agency ILO sees big challenges on 100th anniversary

Deutsche Welle

ILO sets out to eradicate child labor in Africa

allAfrica.com

Cambodia power outages hurting businesses

Large parts of Cambodia have had to endure hours of daily power outages after the country’s main provider said it was unable to meet demand due to dry weather. Small businesses are suffering the most.

Deutsche Welle

Poorest countries feel the hit as aid levels fall

Experts have warned that the fight against global poverty has taken a backward step after the publication of new figures showing foreign aid has fallen for a second successive year. Aid levels dropped last year by 2.7 percent from 2017.

Guardian

In Mozambique, Yemen and Venezuela crises, access for aid is hard to come by

PBS

Taliban bans Red Cross, WHO in Afghanistan

The International Committee of Red Cross said it had suspended work in Afghanistan after the Taliban announced a “ban” against the humanitarian group and the WHO.

Daily Mail

Refugees in Egypt struggle for stability

Tough economic reforms and rising costs have hit refugees and migrants in Egypt particularly hard, aid groups say. Nearly 250,000 registered refugees and asylum seekers live in Egypt, more than half of them Syrian.

Devdiscourse

Brazil using inmates as unpaid workers

Cash-strapped Rio de Janeiro is using prisoners as “volunteer workers” to maintain jails in a move that human rights experts said was illegal and treated inmates like slaves.

The Jerusalem Post

HUMAN RIGHTS

S. Korea court rules abortion law must be lifted

A court in South Korea has ruled that the country’s decades-old ban on abortion must be lifted, in a historic decision that sparked celebrations in Seoul.

Guardian

A Texas bill would allow the death penalty for patients who get abortions

Vox

Half a million children at risk in Libyan crisis

More than half a million children are at “direct risk” in Libya as renegade general Khalifa Haftar’s forces advance on the United Nations-recognized government in the capital of Tripoli, according to UNICEF.

CNN

Libya: Portraits of survival

UN OCHA

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Australia heads to polls over taxes, climate

Prime Minister Scott Morrison called Australia’s election for May 18, with polls showing he’s facing an uphill battle to prevent a shift in power to left-leaning opposition Labor party. Issues include cutting taxes to emissions.

Bloomberg

Castro says Cuba will never abandon Venezuela

Raúl Castro has promised that Cuba will never abandon its leftist ally Venezuela despite US “blackmail”, even as the Trump administration threatened more sanctions over its support.

Guardian

Maduro says Venezuela ready to receive aid

Al Jazeera

UK, EU agree to delay Brexit until October 31

European Union leaders have granted the UK a six-month extension to Brexit, after late-night talks in Brussels. The new deadline averts the prospect of the UK having to leave the EU without a deal.

BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

A woman was behind the first black hole image

Katie Bourman, a 29-year-old computer scientist has earned plaudits worldwide for helping develop the algorithm that created the first-ever image of a black hole.

BBC

DNA breakthrough could replace chemotherapy

Using gene editing therapy, Crispr, scientists were able to deconstruct nearly 20,000 individual genes from more than 300 lab-grown tumors of 30 different cancers. This finding could help formulate new drugs.

New York Post

GLOBAL HEALTH

‘Measles parties’ worry New York City officials

As measles spreads throughout New York City, officials point to “measles parties” thrown by anti-vaccination supporters as a growing threat to public health.

USA TODAY

Orthodox Jews decry public backlash over measles outbreak

FOX News

Israel has world’s lowest diet-related deaths

Israel has the lowest rate of diet-related deaths worldwide, according to a major study. With a rate of 89 deaths per 100,000 people, Israel is followed by France, Spain, Japan and Andorra.

Jerusalem Post

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GOOD NEWS

America’s smallest baby finally goes home

Connor, the miracle baby who weighed less than a pound when he was born premature, is finally headed home in New York. His mom was 26-weeks pregnant when she gave birth.

MSN

Blind boy, goes viral, becomes piano sensation

Avett Ray is a self-taught, blind piano sensation at age 7. Videos of the young prodigy on YouTube have gone viral, with his rendition of “Happy Together” by the Turtles.

MSN

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

NGO pushes for soccer fields for world’s poor

The organization love.fútbol describes itself as a nonprofit that mobilizes and engages communities to plan, build, manage, activate and redefine their own football pitches as sustainable platforms for social change.

Inside Philanthropy

Oprah Winfrey will donate $2M to Puerto Rico

Oprah Winfrey plans to donate $2 million to disaster relief in Puerto Rico, which is still recovering from devastating effects of back-to-back 2017 hurricanes.

Huffington Post

ENVIRONMENT

Pesticides, antibiotics polluting EU’s streams

Pesticides and antibiotics are polluting streams across Europe, a new study has found. Scientists say the contamination is dangerous for wildlife and may increase the development of drug-resistant microbes.

Guardian

Goats help prevent wildfires in California

Using goats to prevent wildfires is a growing trend across California, where they chomp down on vegetation and create firebreaks that prevent wildfires jumping from trees and plants to homes and businesses.

CNN

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Fewer millennials are making it to middle class

Compared to baby boomers, the share of millennials in the middle class have decreased. Middle-income households are disappearing in developed countries around the world, according to a new report.

CNN

Bezos challenges retail rivals to raise wages

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos challenged rival retailers to increase their minimum wages to $16 per hour, in his annual letter to shareholders released. Amazon raised its own minimum wage to $15 per hour in November.

Tech Crunch

Photo of the Day

Child waving a new Libyan flag inside a bombed building in Misrata in November 2011. According to the UNICEF, more than half a million children are at “direct risk” in Libya as renegade general Khalifa Haftar’s forces advance on the UN-recognized government in the capital of Tripoli. (Photo by Ben Sutherland) Photo used under CC BY

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