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Young children in Brazil. Children bear the greatest burden of poverty around the world and according to a new report many countries show “extensive” internal levels of inequality. (Photo by Yosef Hadar / World Bank) Photo used under CC BY

Vast inequity between nations; poverty report

A new report shows that 1.3 billion people are multidimensionally poor, which means that poverty is defined not simply by income, but by a number of indicators, including poor health, poor quality of work and the threat of violence.

UN News

For children in poverty, everyday living is uncertain

WESA FM

China intimidating Uighurs in the west

Uighurs living in the U.S. and Europe say that Chinese authorities are going after family members still living in China to suppress activism by Uighur community living abroad.

Deutsche Welle

Climate change-hit countries to see boom in population

Countries experiencing the world’s most rapid population growth over the coming decades will also be on the front lines of climate change, according to UN’s forecasts.

TIME

Hundreds of thousands flee Mali militia attacks

Hundreds of thousands of people have fled their homes in Mali amid deadly militia attacks on villages in the country’s central region.

The Independent

Migrant apprehensions along border plummet

Apprehensions of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border by the U.S. government decreased dramatically in June, a sign that the months-long surge of Central American families journeying north is stalling.

CBS News

In Juárez, ‘Remain In Mexico’ policy casts asylum-seekers back into uncertainty

NPR

UK acceptance of homosexuality dips

Acceptance of gay relationships in U.K. has dipped for the first time in more than 30 years, researchers said, warning years of rising tolerance could be reaching a plateau.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

HUMAN RIGHTS

Family violence against girls rising in Mexico

Violence against girls in Mexico by members of their own family has increased sharply in recent years, rising by nearly a third from 2010 to 2014 alone, a UNICEF report said.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

UN will investigate Philippine drug war killings

The UN Human Rights Council has voted to investigate into alleged crimes committed during the Philippine government’s war on drugs. It will focus on reports of extrajudicial killings, arrests and enforced disappearances.

BBC

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Brazil’s Amazon law could enable land thieves

Environmental groups have warned that new legislation sanctioned by Para state government in Brazil’s Amazon stands to benefit land thieves and could accelerate deforestation and rural conflicts.

Al Jazeera

Yanomami Amazon reserve invaded by 20,000 miners; Bolsonaro fails to act

Mongabay

Arbitrary arrests and detentions rising in Syria

A year after the Syrian government and opposition groups reached a ceasefire agreement, rights groups say the government has done little to fulfill its promises, with arbitrary arrests and detentions on the rise.

Al Jazeera

UK to send second warship to Middle East amid rising tensions

The Independent

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Mussels inspire water purifying technology

Scientists are suggesting that the chemistry of mussel threads is inspiring engineering innovations that address a wide range of problems, from cleaning up oil spills to treating contaminated water.

Phys.org

Japanese make historic landing on asteroid

A Japanese spacecraft, the robotic Hayabusa-2, has touched down on a faraway asteroid, where it will collect space rock that may hold clues to how the solar system evolved.

BBC

This weekend, India is launching its first-ever moon lander

Science Alert

GLOBAL HEALTH

Breastfeeding could save the world $1B daily

Not enough breastfeeding costs the global economy almost $1 billion each day due to lost productivity and healthcare costs, researchers have said, as health experts urged more support for nursing mothers.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Mali pilots free healthcare for its pregnant, kids

Imagine a world in which pregnant women and little kids get regular home visits from a health worker — and free health care. That ground-breaking approach is being adopted in one of the world’s poorest countries, Mali.

NPR

DR Congo doctors pioneer Ebola ‘CUBE’

PRI

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GOOD NEWS

Sudan’s protests inspire art, graffiti revolution

Murals, paintings, and graphic art have sprung across Sudan: Agitating peace, extolling the place of demonstrators and martyrs, exhorting the world to stand up for the Sudanese people, and imagining a better future.

Quartz

Diver removes fish hooks from giant manta ray

A giant manta ray with fish hooks embedded under its eye approached a diver off Western Australia and appeared to be asking him for help in removing the unwanted fishing gear. The diver, Jake Wilton, helped her.

For The Win

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Steven Spielberg donates $1M to rights group

Four months after Sid Sheinberg’s death, and 50 years after the MCA mogul gave Steven Spielberg his first TV gig, the director and his wife donated $1 million to Sheinberg’s favorite cause, Human Rights Watch.

Hollywood Reporter

US philanthropists to raise millions for climate

Wealthy US philanthropists and investors have donated almost half a million to support the grassroots movement Extinction Rebellion and school strike groups – with the promise of tens of millions more in the months ahead.

Guardian

ENVIRONMENT

Tanzanian rhino population soars ‘by 1,000%’

Endangered rhino populations in Tanzania rose by 1,000 percent after officials said the country’s government quashed organized poaching gangs. Elephant populations have additionally risen by nearly half in five years.

FOX News

Endangered animals rescued in largest sting

The Hill

Shanghai grapples with strict recycling laws

Shanghai, home to about 23 million people, is the first in a nationwide push to raise China’s recycling rate which is at under 20 percent. Steep fines and social credit penalties face people violating complex waste sorting rules.

Guardian

The problem with recycling

YouTube

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Cobalt market needs Congo’s ‘illegal’ miners?

The death of 43 artisan miners at the Kamoto Copper Company KOV concession in Democratic Republic of Congo has refocused attention on the human cost of producing the key input into electric vehicle batteries.

Reuters

Chinese loans put developing world at risk

China is the largest creditor in the world, funding infrastructure projects in the developing world in exchange for access to raw materials. A new study shows that the risk of a new debt crisis is significant.

Spiegel International

Photo of the Day

Wolframite and casserite miners in Kailo, Maniema province of the Democratic Republic of Congo in October 2017. (Photo by Julien Harneis) Photo used under CC BY

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