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Dublin LGBT Pride Festival 2012. Evelyne Paradis, executive director of ILGA-Europe, a regional LGBT rights advocacy group, said “The wave of populism... even when it’s not targeting the LGBT community specifically, contributes to and fuels a toxic, divisive social climate. In many countries we see an increase in violence and LGBT-phobic crimes.” (Photo by William Murphy) Photo used under CC BY

LGBT activists fear extreme right rise in EU

The rise of far-right parties across the European Union is a threat to LGBT rights, activists said, as voters prepared for elections after a campaign characterized by homophobic rhetoric in some countries.

Reuters

‘There shouldn’t be any gays or deviations’: Polish towns go LGBT free

Euronews

Upsurge in antisemitism in Europe in tandem with rise of populism

The Parliament Magazine

Peru’s isolated indigenous communities at risk

The Peruvian government is updating the legal status of one of Peru‘s most important reserves, reportedly exposing ’isolated’ indigenous groups to danger.

Intercontinental Cry

Millions of plastic pieces found on remote islands

The amount of plastic pollution previously thought to exist around the world may be a dramatic underestimate — because the vast majority of plastic pollution may actually be below the surface.

NBCNews.com

UN warns of humanitarian crisis in Somalia

Drought has left nearly 2 million Somalis in desperate need of food, a humanitarian agency warned, as poor rainfall pushes communities to the brink across East Africa.

Africanews

Progress on electricity access slow in Africa

A handful of developing countries have surged ahead in providing electric power to their people, but others - mainly in sub-Saharan Africa - are lagging behind, report shows.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

UN calls on US to ensure safe abortion access

The United Nations human rights office called on U.S. authorities to ensure that women have access to safe abortions, saying bans lead to risky underground abortions that can endanger a woman’s life.

Reuters

Abortion rights supporters’ voices thunder at #StopTheBans rallies across the nation

USA TODAY

HUMAN RIGHTS

Nigerian farmers join to fight bandit attacks

Lacking government support, farmers in Nigeria’s Zamfara state live in fear of bandit attacks, which have displaced thousands. Now, as the crisis escalates, farmers are forming vigilante groups to fight back.

Al Jazeera

Water supply restored for millions in Libya

Water supplies to the Libyan capital and surrounding cities have been restored two days after they were cut off when an armed group stormed a control room, averting shortages that could have caused a humanitarian crisis.

Guardian

In Bolivia, Mennonites lobby to free rapists

In 2009, nine men from an insular Mennonite colony in Bolivia were convicted of the rape of 151 Mennonite women and girls, including small children. Now, the community’s leaders are lobbying to free the men from prison.

BBC

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Duterte moves to send garbage back to Canada

Philippine president, Rodrigo Duterte’s spokesman says the exasperated leader has moved to have truckloads of garbage that was illegally shipped to the Philippines years ago, be forcibly shipped back to Canada.

FOX News

Malaysia will send back plastic waste to source

Reuters

Africa is leading the world in plastic bag bans

Quartz

Mexicans hand over fake phones in muggings

After an average of 70 reported violent muggings every day in Mexico City in the first four months of 2019, commuters are carrying decoy mobile phones costing $15 to $26 each to handover in the event of a mugging.

The Independent

Brazil loses credibility under Jair Bolsonaro

Brazil is rapidly losing its relevance in world politics, and though the country’s decline did not begin with Bolsonaro’s inauguration, his far-right positions have accelerated it.

Deutsche Welle

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Release more CO2 to limit climate change?

An unconventional new idea could actually slow the progress of global warming by putting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere —while removing a more potent planet-warming gas in the process.

Scientific American

Scientists change the definition of kilogram

Instead of being based upon a hunk of metal stored in a vault in Sevres, France, the kilogram is now based on the Planck constant, a tiny, unvarying number that plays a key role in quantum physics.

NBCNews.com

Scientists introduce new kilogram on World Metrology Day

NPR

GLOBAL HEALTH

Health care tops list of Americans’ top issues

Health care is the top issue for Americans, according to a new poll from RealClear Opinion Research. The importance of the issue crossed gender, age and party lines, results show.

The Hill

UN health agency struggles with travel abuses

The WHO spent nearly $192 million on travel last year, with staffers sometimes breaking the agency’s own rules by traveling in business class, booking expensive last-minute tickets and traveling without the required approvals.

NBCNews.com

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Kapil Komireddi):

Five more years of Narendra Modi will take India to a dark place

Guardian

Column (Claire Leigh):

Public funds need to better align with child health inequalities

Devex

Column (Molly Wood):

Climate adaption isn’t surrender. It’s survival

Wired

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GOOD NEWS

Women bring light to remote Zanzibar villages

Grandmothers and single mothers are among those being trained as community solar engineers, a program which they say could transform lives in their communities.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Honduras school lifting kids out of poverty

A small group of Honduran teachers and their American backers are betting that an education at Honduran Independence Bilingual School can lift kids in a rural Honduran town from poverty.

MSN

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Wellcome gives $101M for snakebite research

The London-based Wellcome Trust has announced a $101.8 million commitment in support of snakebite research and the distribution of antivenin.

Philanthropy News Digest

Robin Hood raises millions to fight poverty

Robin Hood’s annual benefit saw over 23 people pledging $1 million each to fight poverty in New York City. The 31-year-old organization choose not to disclose the full amount in donations.

Town & Country

ENVIRONMENT

China using ozone-depleting chemicals

Scientists have solved an international environmental mystery by pinpointing the source of a troubling uptick in a dangerous, ozone-destroying chemical: Factories in northeastern China.

Axios

Dozens of bee species extinct across UK

Many species of bee are on the brink of extinction in parts of the UK – and some types have been lost entirely, a report has found. Climate change, habitat loss, pollution and disease are threatening the pollinators.

The Independent

Monarchs could benefit from urban gardens

Mother Jones

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Ethiopians being paid world’s lowest wages?

Ethiopia is trying to become the new Bangladesh of garment factory labor. Workers themselves report they’re struggling to survive on $26 a month while stitching clothes for Calvin Klein, H&M and other brands.

ABC.net.au

San Francisco has highest billionaire density

Sitting on top of Silicon Valley, San Francisco has the highest density of billionaires in the world, according to a new “Billionaire Census” report from Wealth-X.

Gizmodo

Photo of the Day

A woman gathers trash from the street near the Triangle, Bacolod City, Philippines, in this May 2016 photograph. The Philippines has among the highest trash collection rates in Southeast Asia, yet, it’s the world’s third biggest source of plastic leaking into the ocean, according to a new report on plastic pollution by international group Ocean Conservancy and McKinsey Center for Business and Environment. (Photo by Brian Evans) Photo used under CC BY

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