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A Roma child. April 8, 2019 marks International Roma Day – a day created to celebrate Romani culture and raise awareness of the issues facing Roma people. A new report from the House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee provides a damning critique of the progress made on addressing the inequalities faced by Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities. (Photo by Nikos Koutoulas) Photo used under CC BY

Roma communities face worsening racism, inequality

Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities continue to experience open discrimination and prejudice, both in the UK and Europe, a problem they have faced for decades.

The Conversation

US withdraws from Libya as fighting intensifies

Violence in Libya threatens to cast the already unstable country into an even more precarious situation, following reports that a militant leader’s assault on the country’s UN-backed government forced the U.S. to withdraw troops from the war-torn nation.

U.S. News & World Report

Libya militias in Tripoli profiting from human trafficking

Al Jazeera

Detained refugees in Tripoli lack food and water

Al Jazeera

China’s Muslim crackdown being felt beyond borders

The repression of Uighur muslims is one of the most harrowing — and yet most neglected — humanitarian crises in the world today. And its effects are no longer confined to China’s borders or to Chinese citizens.

Vox

US sanctions blamed for preventing flood aid

US sanctions are preventing aid from reaching Iran after flash flooding claimed at least 70 lives and left 86,000 people homeless, according to the Red Crescent Society.

The Independent

Trump designates elite Iranian military force as a terrorist organization

CNN

Vietnamese garment workers face abuse

Female factory workers producing clothing and shoes in Vietnam for major western brands face systemic sexual harassment and violence at work, according to a new study.

Guardian

Thailand ramps up fight against forced labor

Thailand will use a newly amended law to crack down on forced labor with hefty fines and prison time, a move analysts said could help curb exploitative practices against migrant workers.

Reuters

HUMAN RIGHTS

Rwanda marks 25 years since mass slaughter

Rwanda’s president said the country had become “a family once again”, while marking 25 years of the genocide that killed 800,000 people. Minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus, were massacred by ethnic Hutu extremists.

BBC

Heartbreaking images of the Rwandan genocide

History Collection

Miners, farmers threaten Brazil tribe’s lands

A decade after the Macuxi people won a bloody legal battle to expel rice planters from their reservation in a remote part of Brazil, their hold over ancestral lands is facing renewed threats from farmers and miners.

Reuters

Brazil: High-risk expedition to contact isolated tribe declared success

Guardian

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Salvini seeks to unite Europe’s far-right for polls

Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister, Matteo Salvini, has launched what amounts to a “Make Europe Great Again” campaign, in an attempt to unite far-right political parties across the continent ahead of parliamentary elections next month.

CNN

London gets world’s first pollution charge zone

London is the first city in the world to implement a 24/7 Ultra Low Emission Zone, inside which vehicles will have to meet tough emissions standards or face a charge. Polluting vehicles will be fined $16-$130 daily.

CNN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Now, a safer, cleaner rocket fuel alternative?

Hydrazine rocket fuel is highly toxic, carcinogenic and unstable. Scientists at McGill believe their new alternative, based on metal-organic frameworks, will lead to cleaner, safer, more controllable rockets.

New Atlas

Scientists shoot asteroid to study solar system

Japan has successfully shot an exploding bullet into an asteroid in an attempt to expose the mysteries of the solar system. The hole it has left behind will let it collect samples to study the asteroid and the solar system they inhabit.

The Independent

GLOBAL HEALTH

WHO: Women outlive men across the world

The WHO in its 2019 World Health Statistics study found that women outlive men, especially in wealthy countries. Difference in attitudes towards healthcare are partially responsible for the gap in life expectancy.

Dawn

Additive in fried, frozen food worsens flu

According to U.S. researchers, the additive tertiary butylhydroquinone, common in frozen fish and fried food, increases the severity of flu symptoms and may reduce the effectiveness of the flu vaccine.

The Independent

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GOOD NEWS

Woman turns home to refuge for Venezuelans

As the economic and political crisis in Venezuela daily forces hundreds to abandon their homeland, many are fleeing to neighboring Colombia, where Maria del Pilar Figueroa has opened her home as a refuge.

Al Jazeera

Donors gift car to woman raising 5 siblings

Anonymous donors surprised a 20-year-old Florida woman, who has been raising her five younger siblings between the ages 5 and 16 ever since their parents died, with a brand new car.

MSN

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Billionaire backs nonprofit fighting child abuse

As pressure mounts on social media firms over child grooming and sex abuse imagery, a U.S. nonprofit set up by actors Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore tackling the problem has received backing from eBay billionaire Jeff Skoll.

Reuters

Dalio commits $100M to public education

Dalio Philanthropies committed $100 million to efforts in Connecticut to improve opportunities and outcomes in communities, with a focus on those with high poverty and a high number of youth disconnected from school.

Philanthropy News Digest

ENVIRONMENT

In a first, Cuba allows animal activist march

More than 400 animal-lovers peacefully marched more than a mile through Havana on Sunday, shouting slogans and waving signs calling for an end to animal cruelty in Cuba.

ABC News

Poacher killed by an elephant, eaten by lions

A suspected rhino poacher was killed by an elephant and then devoured by lions in a South African national park, where a search team only managed to recover his skull and a pair of pants, according to a report.

New York Post

Chinese ‘Queen of Ivory’ jailed for 15 years in Tanzania

CNN

Russia signs agreement to free captive whales

Russia has signed an agreement with a group of international scientists to free nearly 100 whales that have been held for months in cramped pens in Russia’s Far East, a scandal that has triggered a wave of criticism.

Reuters

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Activists protest rent increase across Berlin

Thousands attended a march, organized by an affordable housing advocacy group in an effort to collect signatures for a proposal that would transfer some of Berlin’s expensive residential rental properties to public ownership.

NPR

Merkel rejects calls for apartment expropriation

Yahoo! News

Zimbabwe will compensate white farmers

Zimbabwe will compensate thousands of white farmers who lost land under former president Robert Mugabe’s land reform nearly two decades ago, the government said, as it seeks to bring closure to a highly divisive issue.

Telegraph.co.uk

Photo of the Day

The Maasai Mara tribe are an indigenous group that live in and around northern, central and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania, and now are responsible for the protection of the animals from poachers and tourists, and for the protection of tourists from animals and poachers. (Photo by Dylan Walters) Photo used under CC BY

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