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Stress, overtime killing 2.8M workers a year

Stress, excessively-long working hours and disease, contribute to the deaths of nearly 2.8 million workers every year, while an additional 374 million people get injured or fall ill because of their jobs, the UN labor agency, ILO, said.

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UN News

Iraq’s tribal traditions rob women, girls of rights

Iraqi society remains largely conservative, bound by tribal traditions and religious customs. Women and girls often suffer under these patriarchal systems, with many forced to marry against their will, subject to domestic abuse and deprived of an education.

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Newsweek Pakistan

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Iraq ignoring reports of waterboarding

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The Independent

1.6M kids need urgent aid after Cyclone Idai

UNICEF says the needs in Mozambique remain massive, with 1 million children in need of assistance, followed by more than 443,000 in Malawi and 130,000 in Zimbabwe.

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More than 3,400 classrooms damaged or destroyed by Cyclone Idai in Mozambique, says UNICEF

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UN News

Armed civilians detaining migrants at border

An armed civilian group patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border in the Sunland Park area claims its is at the border to “uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution, detained more than 300 migrants who illegally crossed the border.

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Times Record News

Heat, fatigue challenge Sudanese protesters

Protesters whose weeks of demonstrations played an important part in forcing Sudan’s autocratic President Omar al-Bashir from power are battling scorching heat and fatigue as they press for the country’s new military rulers to hand over power to civilians.

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Reuters

Yemen risks massive resurgence of cholera

Oxfam has warned that war-torn Yemen risks a “massive resurgence” of cholera, with around 195,000 suspected cases of the disease recorded so far this year.

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HUMAN RIGHTS

Displaced Nigerians now suffer from addiction

Many Nigerians who fled attacks by Boko Haram are becoming addicted to Tramadol, a drug imported illegally from India, which they are using to cope with post-traumatic stress and the challenges of displaced persons camps.

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Al Jazeera

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UK works with Nigeria to fight trafficking

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CNN

Filipinos nailed to cross to re-enact crucifixion

Catholic devotees were nailed to wooden crosses, while others beat themselves in blood-soaked religious ceremonies in an Easter ritual in the Philippines. Thousands watched the spectacle frowned upon by the Catholic Church.

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The Independent

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Pope tells prisoners at foot-washing rite shun inmate hierarchy

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Al Jazeera

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Mali government resigns after ethnic massacre

Mali’s prime minister and his whole government resigned, four weeks after a massacre of some 160 Fulani herders by an ethnic vigilante group shocked the nation.

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Reuters

Egypt to vote on changing its constitution

Egypt will hold a three-day referendum from Saturday on constitutional amendments that could allow President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to stay in office until 2030 and expanding his power over judicial appointments.

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Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Scientists say online activists silencing them

From climate change to vaccines, activism and science, scientists are fighting it out online, with social media supercharging the battle. They have been the target of online harassment because activists objected to their findings.

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Reuters

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Facebook bans UK far right groups, leaders

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BBC

Scientists produce renewable energy from snow

Solar panels have trouble producing renewable energy whenever it snows. Scientists from UCLA have now invented a snow-based triboelectric nanogenerator which works by generating power via static electricity.

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Inhabitat

GLOBAL HEALTH

Mounting concern over cholera in Yemen

Yemen is facing a massive resurgence of cholera in what was already one of the world’s worst outbreaks, with more than 137,000 suspected cases and almost 300 deaths reported in the first three months of this year.

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Guardian

4% drop in Puerto Rico population since Maria

New Census Bureau data shows Puerto Rico lost nearly 4 percent of its population after Hurricane Maria — the greatest population drop in the recorded history of the island, according to one demographer.

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The Inquirer

Peru trials portable kit to treat jaundiced babies

Jaundice affects 60 percent of babies, left untreated it can be life-threatening. With treatment difficult to access in rural Peru, health workers are now trialling a revolutionary method to treat babies with jaundice.

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What happens next with the Mueller report? 3 essential reads

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Streaming music hurts the environment more than records or CDs ever did

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Why Good Friday was dangerous for Jews in the Middle Ages and how that changed

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The Conversation

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GOOD NEWS

9-year-old collects 1K Easter eggs for sick kids

Nine-year-old Jasmine Parker, from Belfast, Northern Ireland, has collected over 1,000 eggs in three years. Each Easter, she personally distributes them to kids at hospitals and a children’s hospice across the city.

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Pretty52.com

2 cops use their singing to unite a community

After two cops, Michael Norwood and Moe Badger were recorded singing in a Buffalo restaurant, their partnership became a sensation. They now run a program to change the opinion people have of police officers.

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MSN

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Police officer throws 9-year-old boy party after no one showed up to his birthday

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MSN

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Lyft commits $50M for community programs

Ride-hailing company Lyft has announced plans to invest $50 million annually, or 1 percent of its profits — whichever is greater — in transportation and community improvement initiatives in cities where it operates.

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Philanthropy News Digest

Transparent crowdfunding Increases donations

Humanitarian organizations increasingly are using crowdfunding campaigns not only to raise funds for emergencies but also to build donors’ trust, a report from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University finds.

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Philanthropy News Digest

ENVIRONMENT

Apple making it easier to recycle old iPhones

Apple is giving customers new ways to recycle their iPhones. It’s part of the company’s lofty long-term goal of using only recycled or renewable materials to make its products.

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CNN

Scientists building forest to save butterflies

As Monarch Butterflies’ habitats are increasingly endangered by herbicides, logging and climate change, Mexican scientists are building a new forest for the butterflies in the mountains of Mexico’s Michoacan state.

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Mother Jones

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Sierra Chincua, where Monarch Butterflies spend their winters

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CBS News

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

India’s unemployment rate doubles since 2011

India’s unemployment rate has doubled in the eight years to 2018 with the higher educated and younger population accounting for the most without jobs, a new research by a privately run university shows.

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Bloomberg

Female managers do not close gender pay gap

Women earned 7 percent less than men on average, whether they worked for a man or a woman and regardless of the share of women managers in the organization, according to a recent study.

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

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A picture of a Fulani caravan in December, 2009. Largely occupying west Africa, the Fulani are nomadic or semi-nomadic people whose primary occupation is raising livestock. They have been increasingly in conflict and competition with other groups over land and water access for their cattle. These conflicts are exacerbated by climate change, land degradation, and population growth. (Photo by Jeremy Weate) Photo used under CC BY

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