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Children producing glass bangles in a Pakistani factory. There are about 150 million child laborers around the world, according to the International Labour Organization (ILO), the majority working on farms in Africa and Asia. The ILO has said the world is unlikely to meet a target of ending child labor by 2025. (Photo by ILO in Asia and the Pacific) Photo used under CC BY

Millions around the world at risk of child labor

Child labor is an “extreme risk” in one in 10 countries globally, found an index, urging businesses to be more vigilant about abuses in their global supply chains.

Reuters

Lack of commitment hinders international efforts to curb child labor

Wikitribune

Migrants stuck in Bosnia sleeping rough, dying

Thousands of migrants and refugees, stranded in Bosnia on their way to Western Europe, are sleeping rough in parks and abandoned buildings and some have died.

Reuters

Weather extremities increasing food disruptions

From rain-soaked fields in the Corn Belt to drowned livestock, food shocks—abrupt disruptions to food production—are becoming more common as a result of extreme weather.

Civil Eats

Venezuelans burdening Colombian hospitals

A growing mass of Venezuelans are streaming into Colombia for health services as Venezuela’s health system collapse but Colombia remains startlingly unprepared to take on that mass migration.

PRI

EU slams Turkey on human rights in report

The European Union slammed Turkey’s abysmal human rights record today in its annual progress report on the country’s fading bid to join the bloc.

Al Monitor

Pollution plagues 96% of US national parks

33 of America’s most-visited national parks are as polluted as the 20 largest cities. A recent report shows the effects of air pollution on national parks are even more widespread and distressing than previously thought.

The Hill

Delhi’s deadly air

Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

Maine bans conversion therapy for gay youth

Maine has banned gay conversion therapy for minors, joining more than a dozen other states that have outlawed the controversial practice.

Huffington Post

Indians, Pakistanis most likely to back anti-gay honor abuse

Quartz

Latin American rape survivors turn to the UN

Women from Nicaragua, Ecuador and Guatemala who suffered child rape and were denied abortions are turning to the U.N. human rights committee and filing cases against their governments for denying them proper care.

Guardian

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

South Africa gets a gender-balanced cabinet

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced a new cabinet in which, for the first time in the country’s history, half of all ministers are women.

BBC

Syrian military burning farmland in rebel areas

Satellite images show large areas of farmland in opposition-held north-west Syria have been burnt as part of what activists allege is a campaign by the government to destroy vital food crops.

BBC

Top US and Russian diplomats discuss ways to end Syria war

TRT World

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Cuba legalizes private Wi-Fi, router imports

Thousands of Cubans who built their own data networks at home can now apply for a license, but control over the internet itself stays under state control. Cuba has been one of the least-connected places on the planet.

Deutsche Welle

Digital colonialism: Cheap internet access for Africa, but at what cost?

Deutsche Welle

New compound kills antibiotic-resistant bugs?

A new compound which visualizes and kills antibiotic resistant superbugs has been discovered by scientists at the University of Sheffield and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

Phys.org

GLOBAL HEALTH

Nepal moves to improve health care facilities

In Nepal, 3.5 million people still lack basic access to water, and 11.3 million don’t have use of a decent toilet. In a country where dirty water and poor sanitation jeopardizes millions, moves are afoot to improve health facilities.

Guardian

Pakistan grapples with severe HIV outbreak

In Pakistan, where literacy levels are low and information about disease is scant, experts are grappling with an outbreak of HIV and placing blame on the nationwide practice of doctors reusing needles.

CNN

Pakistan man murders HIV positive wife in epidemic-hit south

Channel NewsAsia

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Pragya Tiwari):

The Indian elite and the erosion of democracy

Al Jazeera

Column (Michel Friedman):

Is the only safe Jew in Germany an invisible one?

Deutsche Welle

Column (Darien Alexander Williams):

Nonprofits and foundations aren’t going to save us from climate change. Here’s why.

Mother Jones

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GOOD NEWS

Children around the world are living better

The quality of children’s lives are a top priority for countries worldwide, with many nations looking at ensuring a better life for the younger. And plenty are succeeding, according to a new report from Save the Children.

MSN

Woman raises cash for high schoolers in debt

A North Carolina barbershop owner has raised enough money to erase the debts of more than a dozen high school seniors who risked not graduating if they didn’t pay them off.

ABC News

In pictures: Class of 2019

MSN

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

University supercharges fundraising for girls

Martha Taylor and Lori Diprete Brown founded a program that enhances fundraising for women at University of Wisconsin-Madison. It also covers everything from ending trafficking to aiding child rearing in Malawi.

Inside Philanthropy

‘Egg Boy’ gives $69K to Christchurch victims

The Australian teenager who became known as Egg Boy after smashing an egg on the head of a right-wing politician has donated $69,000 U.S. to those affected by the mass shootings at the Christchurch, New Zealand mosques.

NPR

ENVIRONMENT

Study: Climate crisis led to mass puffin deaths

Researchers believe the 3,150 to 8,500 tufted puffins who starved to death in the Bering Sea died due to the loss of energy-rich prey species, which was triggered by increased sea and atmospheric temperatures.

Guardian

Thousands of puffins die in ‘mass mortality event’

The Independent

Runaway glaciers threaten Pakistan villages

Shifting tectonic plates and climate change are causing large glaciers to surge down the mountains of northern Pakistan, threatening the villages below. Now, residents are being told to evacuate.

The Independent

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Housing in Chicago: Pushing out the poor?

Low-income areas in Chicago are losing affordable housing due to decades of economic disinvestment and discrimination.

Al Jazeera

Filipinos among most indebted in Singapore

Many Filipino women, followed by Indian domestic workers, who have to leave home to work overseas become financially vulnerable, as they are among the most indebted workers in Singapore.

Asia Times Online

Photo of the Day

Children in Nepal gather water from a public tap in May, 2012. According to UNICEF, 10.8 million people in Nepal do not have access to improved sanitation, and 3.5 million do not have access to basic water services. (Photo by Nyaya Health) Photo used under CC BY

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