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Thousands of workers and their unions rallied across Bangladesh after the Rana Plaza collapse that killed more than 1,100 garment workers in 2013. (Photo by Solidarity Center) Photo used under CC BY

Garment industry still rife with low wages, exploitation

Garment workers in Bangladesh face lower wages and exploitation as fashion brands have failed to compensate factories for safety improvements backed by big labels.

Reuters

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The Fashion Transparency Index: 2019 report ranks world’s biggest brands

Guardian

Afghan, NATO forces kill more than insurgents

Afghan and international forces, including NATO, killed more civilians in the first three months of 2019 than the Taliban and fighters from other armed groups.

Al Jazeera

Thawing permafrost, ice release greenhouse gas

Thawing permafrost releases greenhouse gases in a climate change feedback loop that worsens over time, fueling more warming and costly damage around the world, according to a new study.

Inside Climate News

Thawing permafrost is triggering thousands of landslides across the Arctic

The Conversation

Trafficking victims rescued in West Africa

An Interpol operation rescued 216 men, women and children who were trafficked into forced labor in Benin and Nigeria. A number of those rescued were victims of sex trafficking.

Jerusalem Post

Bosnia accused of putting migrants in cages

Bosnian border police have denied mistreating migrants after activists broadcast a video they say shows children and others being held in cages at a border facility in the Balkan nation.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Europe’s waste poisoning Ghana’s food chain

Toxins from old computers, fridges and other electronic goods are entering the food chain in Ghana in an area where 80,000 people live.

Guardian

HUMAN RIGHTS

Japan forced sterilization victims get apology

Japan’s government has issued an apology and awarded compensation to thousands of people with disabilities who were forcibly sterilized under a now defunct eugenics law.

Guardian

United States dilutes UN rape-in-war resolution

The Trump administration’s opposition to abortion has led to the watering-down of a UN resolution on ending sexual violence in war. The US has now removed all references to sexual and reproductive health.

BBC

China, Russia abstain from UN vote on sexual violence in conflict

Al Jazeera

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Duterte threatens Canada with war over trash

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to “go to war” with Canada if the country doesn’t take back tons of trash a Canada-based company had shipped to Manila several years ago.

CNN

Top 20 countries that are used as dumping grounds of the world

Atchuup

Polls show more Brazilians rejecting Bolsonaro

The number of Brazilians rejecting the government of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro continued to rise, according to an opinion poll underscoring his early struggles after easily winning an October election.

Reuters

World in Progress: Brazil’s Bolsonaro vs. the Amazon

Deutsche Welle

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Housework can keep brain young, study says

A Boston University study joins a growing body of research that indicates even light exercise such as housework, done in bouts of two to three minutes, can slow the aging process and help to keep the brain young.

Guardian

Scientists create ‘pure’ plastic, free of additives

Only 10 percent of plastic in the U.S. gets recycled. Now, researchers have created a plastic with a special chemical bond that helps it separate out from additives, turning it back into a pure, valuable, reusable product.

Science Mag

GLOBAL HEALTH

WHO: Don’t expose babies to electronic screens

Children under 12 months old should not be exposed to electronic screens at all, according to the World Health Organization. Parents were urged to ensure kids get enough exercise to encourage good habits later in life.

Deutsche Welle

Doctors test first malaria vaccine in Malawi

A large-scale pilot of what has been called the world’s first malaria vaccine to give partial protection to children has begun in Malawi, which is the first of three African countries chosen for the pilot to roll out the vaccine.

BBC

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GOOD NEWS

Rescue dog inspires owner to collect trash

Chipper, an 8-year-old rescue dog who lives in Arizona, loves to pick up trash wherever he goes and has inspired his owner, Katie Pollak, to organize group cleanups with other people and their dogs.

MSN

Lost puppy finds new life in refugee camp

NPR

UAE mother awakens after 27-year-long coma

A United Arab Emirates woman woke up calling her son’s name almost three decades after she went into a coma following a horrific car crash in 1991, reports say. Her son had never lost hope that she’d someday wake up.

People

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Malala debuts series spotlighting girls globally

Malala Fund, the nonprofit founded by Malala Yousafzai, debuted its first YouTube series, Roll Call. Malala introduces it as a series meant to give girls around the world a chance to tell their own stories in their own words.

Tubefilter

IMF gives Mozambique $118M for rebuilding

The International Monetary Fund will grant Mozambique a $118.2 million credit facility to help it rebuild infrastructure after a devastating cyclone killed hundreds of people and flattened whole villages, the lender said.

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

Luxury market imperils the Tibetan antelope

Tibetan antelope are being poached to make luxury wraps, called shahtooshes. Four antelope are killed to make a single shahtoosh, and Western demand wiped out 90 percent of antelopes in the last century.

National Geographic

Fur ban proposal in New York City has the industry shaking

CBS News

Foodsharing platform fights climate change

One-third of all food worldwide ends up in the garbage, with industrialized countries contributing the most. Foodsharing, a new online platform, is helping tackle the impact this food waste has on our climate.

Deutsche Welle

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Gold worth billions smuggled out of Africa

Billions of dollars’ worth of gold is being smuggled out of Africa every year through the United Arab Emirates, a gateway to markets in Europe, the United States and beyond, a Reuters analysis has found.

Reuters

Medicare will be insolvent by 2026, report says

The financial condition of the government’s bedrock retirement programs for middle and working-class Americans remains shaky, with Medicare pointed toward insolvency by 2026, according to a report.

TIME

Photo of the Day

Local women help unload humanitarian aid from a World Food Programme helicopter in Bebedo, Mozambique, April 8, 2019, during humanitarian relief efforts in the Republic of Mozambique and surrounding areas following Cyclone Idai. (Photo by U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Thomas Grimes) Photo used under CC BY

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