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Young prostitutes await customers in the red-light district of Mumbai, India. (Photo by Kay Chernush/U.S. State Department) Photo used under CC BY

Desperate Indian parents pimp daughters to survive

When the men struggle to find work, young female family members are sent to sell sex by the roadside. It’s been happening for generations. And it’s driven by a dark truth - these young girls are pimped by their parents.

Al Jazeera

India losing friends over biased citizenship law

India finds itself isolated globally like never before, as protests over its controversial religion-based citizenship law grow. Two close allies, Bangladesh and Afghanistan have expressed their displeasure at the law.

Asia Times Online

China shuts down cities in bid to contain virus

The entire city of Wuhan of 11 million people is going under quarantine to contain the deadly coronavirus. The virus has already infected more than 500 people and at least 17 have died.

CBS News

How to protect yourself from deadly new coronavirus

CNN

Wealth gap widens for 70% of world population

Inequality has reached unprecedented levels, with more than 70% of the global population living in countries where the wealth gap is growing, according to a new UN report.

Guardian

22 men own more wealth than Africa’s 326 million women, Oxfam says

CNN

Thai food vendors struggle to replace plastic

Thailand generates more than 5,000 tons of plastic trash a day, most of which ends up in landfills. The government is clamping down on single-use bags, but vendors are having trouble finding alternatives.

South China Morning Post

HUMAN RIGHTS

South Africa’s stateless children at risk

Children, often undocumented and unaccompanied, risk the dangerous crossing into South Africa in hope of a better life.

Al Jazeera

Afghan widows battle for homes

Often with few livelihood options, Afghan widows are also generally denied a share of land and property, even though these rights are recognized in the Afghan constitution

Thomson Reuters Foundation

80 soldiers killed in Yemen camp attack

At least 80 Yemeni soldiers attending prayers at a mosque were killed and 130 others injured in ballistic missile and drone attacks by Iran-backed Houthi rebels, the UN Special Envoy for Yemen reported Sunday.

CNN

Paris protesters try to enter theatre attended by Macron

YouTube

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

India court will not suspend citizenship law

India will not suspend a controversial citizenship law amid accusations that it discriminates against Muslims. PM Modi’s government has four weeks to respond to legal challenges ahead of the next hearing.

Deutsche Welle

World powers commit to arms embargo in Libya

World leaders attending the Libya peace summit in Berlin agreed on Sunday to uphold a UN arms embargo and end military backing for the North African country’s warring factions.

allAfrica.com

Iran will quit nuclear treaty if case goes to UN

Iran says it could quit the global nuclear NPT if European countries refer it to the U.N. Security Council over a nuclear agreement, a move that would overturn diplomacy in its confrontation with the West.

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Mosquitoes engineered to repel dengue virus

Scientists have synthetically engineered mosquitoes that halt the transmission of the dengue virus. Biologists developed a human antibody for dengue suppression in the insects that spread dengue fever.

ScienceDaily

Alphabets worldwide at risk of extinction

It isn’t just languages that are endangered: dozens of alphabets around the world are at risk. And they could have even more to tell us.

BBC

GLOBAL HEALTH

Growing fears that Wuhan virus is mutating

Fears are growing that the virus will continue to spread with millions traveling across China during the Lunar New Year holiday. Cases have spread throughout China and abroad in Taiwan, Thailand, Japan, SK and the US.

Asia Times Online

US to screen airline passengers from China for new illness

Associated Press

Threat of antibiotic resistance is growing

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria threatens our health, but only a few pharmaceutical companies are still trying to bring new drugs onto the market. And they are trying to restrict prescriptions.

Deutsche Welle

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GOOD NEWS

5-year-old boy donates gifts to kids in need

In a video to his birthday party guests, Tyler asked for bedding so he could donate it to Sleep in Heavenly Peace, an organization that builds, assembles and delivers beds to children in need.

MSN

Virginia educator teaches kids to love reading

Reamer is a rare bright spot when children’s reading proficiency is plunging nationwide. Two-thirds of 4th and 8th graders in the US do not meet basic federal standards for reading proficiency, in a decade of poor performance.

MSN

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Coat saving lives, creating jobs for homeless

A nonprofit aimed at solving that problem has accidentally led to one of the most successful homeless employment programs as the country’s homeless crisis keeps growing.

CNN

Zimbabwe billionaire ends doctors’ strike

Zimbabwe’s doctors have agreed to return to work after accepting a funding offer from a billionaire, ending a prolonged strike.

BBC

ENVIRONMENT

Solomon Islands women are saving sea turtles

On the Solomon Islands, rats and poachers are the two major threats to critically endangered sea turtles. A group of local women have joined forces to help save the animals from extinction.

Deutsche Welle

Rescued big cats arrive at secret sanctuary

CNN

Team finds HFC emissions are growing

Despite reports that global emissions of the potent greenhouse gas, a hydrofluorocarbon gas known as HFC-23, were almost eliminated in 2017, a team of scientists has found atmospheric levels growing at record values.

ScienceDaily

Toxins found in Zimbabwe’s water supply

Water being pumped to millions of residents in Zimbabwe’s capital city, Harare, came from reservoirs contaminated by dangerous toxins.

Guardian

Art exhibit addresses human extinction

BBC

Australia’s damaged bush showing signs of life

Australia’s bushfires have burnt through millions acres of land, but in some worst-affected areas, the sight of plants growing back and animals returning to habitats is raising spirits.

BBC

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

22 men are richer than all of Africa’s women

Economic inequality is widening across the world and women in particular are feeling its effects as care work remains undervalued, according to a new report by anti-poverty charity Oxfam.

Al Jazeera

Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision misunderstood

Experts who have researched MLK say much of what he truly thought is misunderstood or ignored, or has been supplanted by warm and fuzzy fiction.

NBCNews.com

Malaysia returns plastic waste to rich countries

Malaysia has returned 150 shipping containers of plastic waste to rich countries like the U.S., U.K., France and Canada, saying it won‘t be the world’s “garbage dump” after the country was inundated with illegal plastic waste.

CNN

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Protesters take part in the Women’s March in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 18, 2020. (Photo by Mobilus In Mobili) Photo used under CC BY

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