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Pakistanis wait for aid at an internally displaced person settlement. The increase in internally displaced people (IDPs), which was 1 million higher than in 2017, suggested that more global crises were long-lasting, said Alexandra Bilak, director of the Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). (Photo by Cpl. Jenie Fisher) Photo used under CC BY

Conflicts displaced 41M within their own countries

A record 41.3 million people were uprooted within their own countries last year due to conflicts and violence. IDPs cannot claim international protection and often have less access to aid and medical care. Two-thirds were displaced in just 10 countries.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Gaza’s humanitarian crisis may leave 1M hungry

Gaza is on the verge of a “humanitarian catastrophe” and 1 million Palestinians could soon go hungry, the UN has warned.

The Independent

Qatar’s new artificial limb center offers hope for Gaza amputees

Al Jazeera

Ethiopian textile workers are world’s worst paid

Ethiopian garment workers report they’re struggling to survive on $26 a month while stitching clothes for Calvin Klein, H&M and other brands.

ABC.net.au

The salary saga of Bengaluru’s garment workers

The Hindu

Romania’s Roma living in abject poverty

Romania has been ordered by the EU to implement a national strategy to better integrate its Roma population. But in rural Romania, precious little progress seems to have been made in this regard.

Deutsche Welle

Thousands Indian Bengalis fear statelessness

Thousands of Bengali Muslims living in Assam are accused of foreigner status after the government established 100 foreigners’ tribunals and a specialized border police force tasked with identifying “illegal immigrants.”

PRI

Rural areas drive increases in global obesity

Research findings have indicated that the levels of overweight and obesity are increasing faster in rural than in urban areas, even in many low- and middle-income countries.

Scientific American

HUMAN RIGHTS

US tracking migrant girls seeking abortion

A Trump administration agency has been tracking migrant teenage girls who want an abortion after facing a court order not to interfere with their access to abortions. Critics say the agency is “weaponizing” health data.

The Independent

Afghan refugees in Pakistan fear repatriation

Female refugees in Pakistan are reluctant to return to Afghanistan because they fear violence and the forced recruitment of their children as child soldiers.

Al Jazeera

In photos: Afghanistan’s children of war

The Atlantic

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Illegal drugs in Mexico could be decriminalized

Mexico has drafted plans to decriminalize all currently illegal drugs after admitting that the current “war on drugs” is endangering public safety. Arrests could now be replaced by enforcing medical treatments, detoxification.

CNBC

China denies having ‘concentration camps’

After the U.S. accused China of holding some three million Muslim-majority Uyghur people inside massive government camps, Beijing denied having “concentration camps” and told Washington to “stop interfering” in its affairs.

CNN

CNN captures rare images China doesn’t want you to see

CNN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Could salt battery help renewable energy use?

A energy company, together with a Swedish start-up, is testing the use of salt—though not quite the common table variety—to store heat, which accounts for more than half the power consumed in Germany.

TechXplore

Climate change giving old trees a growth spurt

Larch trees in the permafrost forests of northeastern China—the northernmost tree species on Earth—are growing faster as a result of climate change, according to new research.

Phys.org

GLOBAL HEALTH

China’s transgender driven to self-medicate

Largely forgotten by China’s health system, young transgender men and women are turning to dangerous alternatives such as a black market drugs and even life-threatening self surgery, according to a Amnesty new report.

CNN

Asia scrambling to contain measles outbreak

Authorities in Southeast Asia are beefing up measles vaccinations to help curb a resurgence of the disease in the region and prevent further spreading across Asia amid a global outbreak.

Nikkei Asian Review

UK turns to Asia for nurses to cover shortages

Uncertainty over Brexit affecting European nurses, demographic changes and a shortage in domestically trained staff have made nurses from Asia, especially India and the Philippines, an important part of the workforce in the U.K.

Nikkei Asian Review

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GOOD NEWS

Wales, a ‘nation of sanctuary’ for refugees

While countries in EU have closed their borders to asylum-seekers and looked to discourage immigrants, Wales says it is intent on becoming a “nation of sanctuary” for those fleeing war and persecution.

NBCNews.com

Handyman offers free help to single moms

For four years, Kevin Saldivar has been helping out single moms by doing small chores around the house that require heavy lifting. He offers this free service during the month of May, when we celebrate Mother’s Day.

MSN

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Tycoon donated children’s $400M inheritance

Alex Shih, the heir to the biggest real estate agency in Hong Kong won’t inherit his father’s stake in Centaline Group, estimated to be worth about $400 million because it was donated to charity more than a decade ago.

Bloomberg

Malawi government launches new NGO policy

The government of Malawi launched NGO and social welfare policies in Malawi’s capital Lilongwe with the hope of ushering an era of sanity into the country’s NGO and social welfare sectors.

allAfrica.com

ENVIRONMENT

Penguin poop helps cultivate life in Antarctica

Penguin poop is apparently the secret to biodiversity in Antarctica, a new study claims. The nitrogen in penguin and elephant seal excrement is said to have the nutrients to cultivate life in a place as cold as Antarctica.

FOX News

Hippo dung shortages caused by hunting could endanger fish and communities on Africa’s great lakes

The Independent

Study finds half of amphibians face extinction

A new study finds that more than 1,000 amphibian species poorly known to science are likely facing extinction, adding to the already identified 4,200 species, that the United Nations says, are in peril.

National Geographic

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Poverty, malnutrition rife in West Singhbhum

West Singhbhum, a remote part of eastern India’s Jharkhand state where many tribal people live is rich in natural resources. Yet its people are some of the poorest in the country.

Al Jazeera

Worsening child poverty harms learning, say teachers

BBC

Walmart says it pays $14.26 in minimum wage

Walmart, the largest U.S. employer, promoted hundreds of thousands of its workers to higher-paying jobs last year. The average earnings of full-time associates are $14.26, nearly double the federal minimum of $7.25.

Yahoo Finance

Photo of the Day

At the 2019 World Economic Forum, “A Day in the Life of a Refugee,” run by Crossroads Foundation, invites participants to take a few steps in the shoes of refugees, through a simulated environment which re-creates some of the struggles and choices they face to survive, each day. (Photo by David McIntyre/Crossroads Foundation Ltd) Photo used under CC BY

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