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Students line up to enter Mahiga Girls School in Nyeri County, Kenya. Many children in Kenya drop out of school intermittently, for one or two years at a time, because their families cannot afford to send them. (Photo by SuSanA Secretariat)

Period poverty keeping Kenyan girls out of school

Many Kenyan children drop out of school for one or two years at a time because their families cannot afford to send them. Period poverty — being unable to work or attend school because of lack of funds for sanitary products — makes life even harder for girls.

Al Jazeera

Hey Girls highlights period poverty in ‘UNsanitary’ campaign

Campaign

Families trapped as Syrian forces advance

At a camp in Syria’s Idlib province, uprooted families are arriving in droves as they flee bombardment from airstrikes and artillery shelling. They fear being trapped between the fighting and the closed-off Turkish border.

Reuters

UN chief urges action on rights, persecution

UN chief Antonio Guterres has launched a “call to action” against rising attacks on human rights, highlighting the persecution of minorities and “alarming levels of femicide.”

South China Morning Post

Moroccan protestors demand progress on rights

Middle East Monitor

Morality police swing out wildly in Indonesia

Indonesia’s self-appointed morality police are at it again. A member of the Commission for the Protection of Children has drawn ridicule by claiming that women risk becoming pregnant by swimming with men.

Asia Times Online

Internet is ‘critical tool’ for N. Korean regime

The Internet has become a “critical tool” for the North Korean regime in its efforts to evade sanctions and generate income through cybercrime and fraud, researchers say.

Asia Times Online

Pro-N. Korea daily praises Oscar-winning ‘Parasite’ for ‘exposing’ S. Korea’s rich-poor gap

Reuters

Malaysian PM resigns, may form coalition

Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad has resigned in a surprise move that could unravel the ruling coalition. The resignation comes amid rumors that he may form a new coalition without his designated successor.

BBC

HUMAN RIGHTS

Pope warns against ‘unfair’ solutions for peace

Pope Francis has cautioned against “unfair” solutions aimed at ending the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

TIME

UAE bans Bollywood’s first gay rom-com

A major Bollywood gay film has been banned in the conservative United Arab Emirates, home to a sizable South Asian community, the director said as his new movie hit theaters in India.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Cambodian women not allowed to look sexy

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said low cut tops were an affront to Cambodian culture and ordered authorities to track down vendors who wear them to sell clothes and beauty products, a popular trend in the conservative country.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Trans youth avoid revealing gender identity

Nearly half of transgender teens and young adults say they sometimes hide their gender identity from healthcare providers.

Openly

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Kashmiri schools open for first time in 7 months

The schools’ reopening ended a lengthy break that began in August 2019, when the Indian government imposed a security and communications lockdown in the Muslim-majority region.

Al Jazeera

New style of rebels winning fight in Myanmar

As Myanmar’s government sues for peace, its autonomous military, the Tatmadaw, faces a new type of insurgency it seems increasingly ill-prepared to counter and combat.

Asia Times Online

South Sudan’s new coalition government

South Sudan’s rival leaders have finally agreed to form a transitional government of national unity, officially putting an end to more than six years of war that has killed at least 380,000 people and forced millions from their homes.

The New Humanitarian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Quarter of climate change tweets from bots

A study by Brown University found a quarter of posts about climate change on Twitter were written by bots. Researchers discovered tweets posted by bots created the impression there was a high level of climate change denial.

BBC

Artifact left on moon for future explorers

The nine-ounce MoonArk is a tiny time capsule-esque artifact of humanity that will be attached to a small lunar rover. This is in the hopes that one day it may be picked up by lunar explorers hundreds or thousands of years in the future.

CNN

Wired

Burger King thinks moldy Whoppers will get you to buy more burgers

CNN

GLOBAL HEALTH

Poor women are more prone to cervical cancer

Amid a global shortage of HPV vaccine, more must be done to steer supplies towards those most at risk: girls in poor countries.

Guardian

Mystery illness in Ethiopia brings death, dismay

A deadly sickness is spreading through villages near a Chinese natural gas project in Ethiopia’s Somali region, according to locals and officials who spoke to the Guardian.

Guardian

World approaching coronavirus tipping point

The world is approaching a “tipping point” in the spread of the coronavirus. Experts warn that the disease is outpacing efforts to contain it, after outbreaks forced Italy and Iran to introduce stringent internal travel restrictions.

Guardian

Coronavirus spike in S. Korea, Chinese prisons

NPR

New research: bats harbor hundreds of coronaviruses, and spillovers aren’t rare

NPR

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GOOD NEWS

Malena Ernman on daughter Greta Thunberg

A new book by Greta Thunberg’s mother reveals the reality of family life during her daughter’s transformation from bullied teenager to climate icon.

Guardian

Violinist played during brain tumor removal

CNN

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Adopted boy saves old dogs who need a home

That‘s because he sees himself in them. So far Robbie’s adopted six. “He is so aware that it could have gone differently for him. And in these older dogs Robbie has a place to practice compassion,” says his adoptive mother Maria.

MSN

Church helps wipe out millions of medical debt

Leaders of Crossroads Church worked with the non-profit RIP Medical Debt. The group’s website says every $100 donated wipes out $10,000 in medical debt, helping families in Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, and Ohio.

MSN

9-year-old turns presents into wheelchairs

For the past three years, 9-year-old Joan Overton has asked people to give to a charity, instead of giving her a birthday present. This year she chose Syracuse Honor Flight in memory of her late grandfather.

NNY360

ENVIRONMENT

Kenyan girls fighting period poverty

In Kenya, one million girls miss school each month because they cannot afford sanitary pads, while some share used ones.

Al Jazeera

Climate change gets first mention in G20

Finance officials from the G20 referenced climate change in their final communique for the first time in U.S. President Trump’s administration, but stopped short of calling it a major risk to the economy.

Reuters

Indigenous communities fighting to save the Amazon rainforest

BBC

Fog can offset climate-caused water shortage

In chronically dry regions around the world, communities are finding ways to live from the water suspended in the air - creating valuable drinking water from mist.

BBC

Bird hints at global warming’s lasting impact

The black-throated blue warbler‘s migration patterns are changing, and ornithologists can’t help seeing the signs of climate change.

NBCNews.com

These logs are made from recycled coffee grounds

CNN

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

Africa hopes to gain from the ‘new scramble’

Major world powers are jostling for political and economic influence in Africa, but what is behind the renewed interest on the continent and what are African countries doing about it?

BBC

Jihadists fuel conflict in Burkina Faso

In Burkina Faso, extremist violence has displaced nearly 800,000 people – all but 50,000 in the past 13 months – and is driving a wedge between communities once known for diversity, tolerance, and social cohesion.

The New Humanitarian

Young male refugees selling sex to survive

Young male Afghan and Iranian refugees can be found selling sex to the hundreds of buyers who pass through Berlin’s Tiergarten park each day.

Guardian

Photo of the Day

Local dancers greets cruise ship passengers arriving in Nampula, Mozambique. (Photo by David Stanley) Photo used under CC BY

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