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Falun Gong practitioners protesting in Canberra, Australia. Detained members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement are “probably [the] principal source of organs for forced organ harvesting,” Sir Geoffrey Nice, who chaired the China Tribunal, told reporters in London. (Photo by Pierre Pouliquin) Photo used under CC BY

Illegal organ harvesting continues in China

Prisoners in China are still being killed for their organs, an independent tribunal has concluded. The country has long been accused of donating prisoners’ organs without consent.

Newsweek

Undercover video reveals brutal treatment of Falun Gong prisoners inside Chinese labor camps

FOX11

Mexico reinforces border migrant checks

Mexican authorities have increased immigration enforcement along well-traveled routes for migrants in southern Mexico, checking identifications, pulling migrants off public transport and intercepting trucks.

ABC News

Overcrowding, abuse seen at Mexico migrant detention center

NBCNews.com

Migrant women in Jordan face modern-day slavery

Domestic workers arriving in Jordan from Philippines, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Uganda, attracted by the opportunity to escape grinding poverty in their home countries. But many end up trapped in situations of abuse and exploitation.

PRI

Indian police rescue child workers from biscuit factory

Yahoo! News

48M in South America face massive power cut

A massive power cut has left an estimated 48 million people across huge areas of South America without electricity. All of Argentina and Uruguay and parts of Brazil, Chile and Paraguay were hit by the blackout.

Telegraph.co.uk

Iran to break key nuclear deal uranium limit

Iran will break the uranium stockpile limit set by Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers, the spokesman for the country’s atomic agency has said.

CBS News

UN threatens to withdraw Myanmar aid

The United Nations in Myanmar has warned it will withdraw support in Rakhine state to avoid complicity in a government “policy of apartheid” for Rohingya Muslims.

Guardian

HUMAN RIGHTS

Environment reporters face harassment, murder

Thirteen journalists who were investigating environmental damage have been killed in recent years and many more are suffering violence, harassment, intimidation and lawsuits, according to a study.

Guardian

India journalists decry ‘escalating attacks’ on press freedom

Al Jazeera

Police accused of shooting at journalists amid demonstration over China extradition bill

The Independent

Cambodia faces pressure over kiln slave labor

A new government push to stamp out debt bondage and child labor in Cambodian brick kilns to serve a construction boom, needs to be backed by a fresh commitment to enforcement, campaigners warned.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Germany may ban gay conversion therapy

In Germany, there are an estimated 1,000 attempts a year to change the sexual orientation of gay people. But the nation’s health minister has announced a plan to ban so-called gay conversion therapy nationwide.

Deutsche Welle

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Slovakia’s first female president sworn in

Anti-corruption activist Zuzana Caputova kicked off her five-year term as first female president of Slovakia by calling for state officials incapable of standing up to corruption to lose their jobs.

Deutsche Welle

Some Americans still doubt women’s emotional suitability for politics, according to study

CBS News

Quebec passes controversial immigration bill

The Quebec government has passed a contentious immigration bill in an early morning vote. The legislation gives the immigration minister more authority over who receives permanent residency in the province.

Huffington Post

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Farmers use the sun to help water their crops

Khethworks, a project that began at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has developed a solar-powered irrigation system that allows farmers to water their crops without depending on seasonal rains or expensive fuel.

CNN

Scientists discover gene that could help us grow crops faster

Phys.org

Study reveals gene needed for species’ survival

Certain types of immune genes may be particularly important for the survival of dolphins, a new study by an international team of researchers that investigated genetic diversity of dolphin populations reveals.

Phys.org

GLOBAL HEALTH

Doctors in India strike over violent attacks

About 800,000 doctors across India went on strike to demand better working conditions, following years of complaints about violent attacks from patients’ families.

Guardian

Prescription drugs sold illegally in Uganda

The BBC has uncovered evidence that life-saving drugs meant for the sick have been stolen and sold on illegally in Uganda. While undercover, it discovered that some health workers are at the heart of criminal networks.

BBC

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GOOD NEWS

Incubator helps immigrants set up businesses

A business incubator based in San Francisco’s Mission District, La Cocina, has been helping local food entrepreneurs, many of whom are low-income immigrant women, develop their small businesses.

NPR

Paris zoo gives orangutan a 50th birthday party

Nenette, one of the world’s oldest Borneo orangutans in captivity, has celebrated her 50th birthday at a zoo in Paris, where she has lived almost all her life.

FOX News

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Chase gives $125M for financial opportunity

JPMorgan Chase announced a five-year, $125 million commitment to improve the financial health of underserved communities, part of the company’s efforts to drive economic opportunity in cities around the world.

Philanthropy News Digest

Amnesty shuts Zimbabwe office, cites fraud

Amnesty International suspended its Zimbabwe branch after uncovering evidence of fraud. The scandal follows a recent leadership exodus amid allegations that Amnesty’s bosses created a “toxic workplace.”

Al Jazeera

ENVIRONMENT

World population could swell to 10.9B by 2100

World population could swell to 10.9 billion by 2100, a new U.N. analysis found, raising concerns that adding more than 3 billion people to could further deplete natural resources and accelerate global warming.

NBCNews.com

Firms accused of concealing climate impact

A $10 trillion investor alliance has accused more than 700 companies, including Amazon, Tesco and ExxonMobil, of failing to reveal the full extent of their impact on the climate crisis, water shortages and deforestation.

Guardian

The psychology behind climate inaction: How to beat the ‘doom barrier’

Deutsche Welle

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Georgia gets female lifeguards for ‘equality’

Up to 20 female lifeguards will start patrolling Georgia’s crowded beaches, joining a male-dominated rescue corps. This, in light of the nation passing anti-discrimination laws in an effort to move closer to the European Union.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Illegal fishing is costing Ghana $50M a year

Illegal fishing by foreign trawlers is decimating Ghana’s fish populations and costing the country’s economy tens of millions of dollars a year, according to researchers.

Guardian

Photo of the Day

A trader waits to sell fish inside Mogadishu‘s fish market in the Xamar Weyne district of the Somali capital in March 2013. Every morning Mogadishu’s fisherman bring their catch from the Indian Ocean to Xamar Weyne’s lively and chaotic fish market where it is sold for consumption on the local market and increasingly, for export to other countries. Over the last two decades, instability on land has greatly restricted the development of the country’s fishing industry. (Photo by Photo by Stuart Price) Photo used under CC BY

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