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A young Afghan girl and her younger siblings live at a brick kiln in rural Afghanistan. Despite two decades of foreign aid, poor in Afghanistan struggle to make ends meet and put the government at fault. International aid organizations are concerned the situation could get worse. (Photo by ILO in Asia and the Pacific) Photo used under CC BY

Many Afghans struggle to make ends meet

Afghanistan has received billions of dollars in aid over the past 18 years but it still remains one of the poorest countries in the world with more than half the population living below the poverty line.

Al Jazeera

Working Afghan women still face hostility

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Demand for food aid in UK on the rise

With demand for food aid continuing to rise, Human Rights Watch claims the U.K. government is failing to meet its duty under international law to ensure the right to adequate food.

Sky News

N. Korean women trapped in Chinese sex trade

Human traffickers are increasingly targeting young North Korean women, including girls as young as 9, in China’s lucrative sex trade, according to human rights researchers with Korea Future Initiative in London.

UPI

North Korea says it is suffering worst drought in decades

ABC News

UK’s suppliers failing to stop modern slavery

Britain is failing to lead by example in efforts to stop modern slavery as nearly a third of the government’s top suppliers are flouting a landmark anti-slavery law, analysts said.

Devdiscourse

LGBT women have lower cancer survival rates

A study has found American women who are sexual minorities were more likely not to have health insurance, as well as not have a personal doctor, avoid medical care due to costs, and be without an annual medical visit.

The Independent

Tanzania’s human rights continue to worsen

Bloggers, politicians, journalists, business people, artists, musicians — anyone critical of Tanzania’s President John Magufuli are being rounded up on spurious charges.

Daily Maverick

HUMAN RIGHTS

CNN exposes systematic abuse of aid in Yemen

The world is trying to help nearly 16 million hungry people in Yemen by sending food. But, according to UN, CNN reports some of that food is being stolen by Houthi rebels, on a scale far greater than reports show.

CNN

Yemen’s displaced live on bread crumbs, leaves

Associated Press

Rights bodies report torture in Indian Kashmir

Prisoners in Indian-administered Kashmir have been subjected to abuse and torture, including “water-boarding, sleep deprivation and sexualized torture,” according to a report by two rights bodies.

Al Jazeera

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Conservatives win shock victory in Australia

Australia’s conservative coalition are set to form a majority government following a shock election victory. The prime minister has rejected efforts to increase renewables for electricity, instead depending on coal.

The Independent

Did the Earth just lose Australia’s climate election?

EcoWatch

Switzerland voters approve of tighter gun laws

Voters in Switzerland have backed tightening gun laws to conform with EU regulations. Almost 64 percent of voters have supported tougher restrictions on semi-automatic and automatic weapons, referendum results show.

BBC

America is one of 6 countries that make up more than half of gun deaths worldwide

Vox

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Tech giants failing to protect children at risk

The world’s largest technology companies have been accused of failing to protect children at risk of sexual abuse, a UK inquiry has heard, and they will give evidence to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.

BBC

Artificial intelligence diagnoses lung cancer

Artificial intelligence is better than specialist doctors at diagnosing lung cancer, a US study suggests. Researchers at Northwestern University, Google hope the technology could boost the effectiveness of cancer screening.

BBC

GLOBAL HEALTH

Asia bears half of global low birthweight burden

Nearly half of all children with low birthweight are born in South Asia, a global report has found, likely due to the combination of dietary deficiency and lack of women’s rights.

Sci Dev Net

Study: Sperm quality degrades as men age

A study reveals that infants born to fathers older than 45 have a higher risk of premature birth and low birth weight. The study also suggested a greater risk of schizophrenia and autism in people with fathers older than 50.

Deutsche Welle

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GOOD NEWS

Tribe wins legal battle against oil companies

After a long legal battle, the indigenous Waorani community in Ecuador successfully protected half a million acres of their ancestral territory in the Amazon rainforest from being mined for oil by huge oil corporations.

Sunny Skyz

Famed Sherpa climber inspires Nepali kids

Apa Sherpa dreamed of becoming a doctor, but poverty, lack of education steered him to work as a guide on Mount Everest. Now retired in the U.S., he returns every year to his village to inspire kids in the Sherpa minority.

MSN

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Billionaire vows to pay off student loan debt

Billionaire tech investor and philanthropist, Robert F. Smith says his family is providing grants to wipe out the student debt of the entire 2019 class at Morehouse College.

CBS News

Oprah Winfrey donates $500,000 to New Jersey high school for after-school program

NY Daily News

NGO drives homeless to medical appointments

Elaine, a nonprofit formed in Phoenix in February drives homeless individuals to their medical appointments and helps them navigate the health care system.

KTAR

ENVIRONMENT

English cities, towns plan to plant 130K trees

More than 130,000 trees are to be planted in English towns and cities over the next two years as part of the nation’s battle against global heating.

Guardian

Climate change: One man’s fight to save a California tree

BBC

12 excuses for climate inaction and how to refute them

Vox

Koalas now ‘functionally extinct,’ experts say

Koala bears have been declared “functionally extinct,” the Australian Koala Foundation reports. They are down to 80,000, meaning there aren’t enough breeding adults left to support another generation.

New York Post

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Sen. Harris vows to fine over gender pay gap

Presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris is vowing to fine corporations that don’t take steps toward closing the gender pay gap. Her plan requires firms to submit data each year on equal pay to comply with new standards.

FOX News

Millions of senior citizens can’t afford food

Senior citizens are struggling to afford enough food in the U.S. and the problem appears to be getting worse. An alarming 1 in 12 seniors aged 60 and older didn’t have enough food in 2017, according to a new study.

MarketWatch

Photo of the Day

A woman from the nomadic Bakarwal tribe in Baltal, Jammu and Kashmir, India, in June 2012. Bakarwals lead a lonely and tough life in the high-altitude meadows of the Himalayas and the Pir-Panjal. Every year, they take their sheep high into the mountains, above the tree-line to graze in the lush meadows. It may take them as many as sixty days to reach these meadows. During this migration their whole family accompany with their sheep and goats. (Photo by ZeePack) Photo used under CC BY

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