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The impact of the coronavirus pandemic threatens to undo years worth of progress with regard to global poverty and inequality. The virus has undermined trust in systems of governance and risks millions of lives in developing countries. (Photo by Rafael Antonio) Photo used under CC BY

Virus worsens inequality, global poverty, violence

The coronavirus pandemic not only threatens gains in fighting global poverty and building peace but risks exacerbating existing conflicts and generating new ones, the UN has warned. UN’s top chief called for an immediate ceasefire in conflicts around the world.

Al Jazeera

Ongoing Syrian conflict forces thousands of children into child labor

Al Jazeera

Afghan women demand say in Taliban talks

Talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government could start this week in Qatar. Many women fear that freedoms gained since the fall of the Taliban 20 years ago will be sacrificed in the process.

Guardian

New virus study begins across African continent

An Africa-wide study of COVID-19 antibodies has begun, while evidence from a smaller study indicates that many more people have been infected than official numbers show. Experts are eager to know the real number of virus cases on a continent of 1.3 billion.

Associated Press

Rwanda scientists tackle limited virus testing

Like many countries, Rwanda is finding it impossible to test each of its citizens for the virus amid supply shortages. But researchers there have created an approach that’s drawing attention beyond the African continent.

USNews

Virus threatens Colombia’s indigenous groups

The coronavirus pandemic is making it more difficult for indigenous Wayuu people in Colombia to survive and putting children at heightened risk of malnutrition, an advocacy group has said.

Reuters

Beirut children suffer from trauma after blast

The massive explosion of nearly 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate in Beirut’s port displaced as many as 100,000 children from their homes according to Save the Children, with many of them deeply traumatized.

ABC News

Volunteers pick up the pieces as Beirut cries out for help rebuilding

CNN

HUMAN RIGHTS

Somalia parliament poised to OK child marriage

An outcry is rising in Somalia as parliament considers a bill that would allow child marriage once a girl’s sexual organs mature and would allow forced marriage as long as the family gives their consent.

Time

India lockdown allows for more child marriages

Before the pandemic, many early marriages in India included public celebrations and large dowries. Yet India’s lockdown’s restrictions mean many jobless and struggling families are performing ceremonies on the cheap.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

How climate change in Kenya is driving child marriage

Time

Italy exploiting migrant workers from Africa

Italy wanted to legalize migrant workers from Africa. But legislation has failed due to bureaucracy. Without fixed addresses or valid work contracts, African workers face illegality and starvation wages.

Deutsche Welle

COVID crisis drives Tunisians to flee to Italy

Guardian

What migrants face as they journey through the deadly Darien Gap

PBS NewsHour

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

Refugee kids in Greece miss out on education

A generation of kids is growing up without ever having been to a school. The biggest refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos houses 14,000 people – among them 5,000 children.

Deutsche Welle

Israel, UAE to establish historic diplomatic ties

The UAE and Israel have agreed to establish full diplomatic ties as part of a deal to halt the annexation of occupied land sought by the Palestinians. The announcement makes the UAE the first Gulf Arab state to do so.

TIME

Belarusian women form chains in protest

Women have formed human chains in Belarus to condemn a crackdown on protests over the disputed election.

BBC

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Bones found in UK could be related to T-rex

Paleontologists in Britain say four bones found in 2019 on the Isle of Wight are likely to be from a new species of dinosaur related to the Tyrannosaurus rex.

CNN

DOJ seizes jihadist cryptocurrency accounts

The US has seized 300 cryptocurrency accounts used by terrorist organizations with millions of dollars of digital currency in what the DOJ said was the “largest ever seizure of terrorist organizations’ cryptocurrency accounts.”

Forbes

Climate change doomed woolly rhinos

Woolly rhinos went extinct at the end of the last ice age in Siberia about 14,000 years ago. Previously, it was believed that humans hunted these giant animals as they spread across the globe. But new DNA research suggests that climate change is the culprit.

CNN

GLOBAL HEALTH

Beirut blast batters struggling hospitals

Beirut’s hospitals have been wrestling with the country’s financial meltdown all of last year. Now with hospitals turned into trauma centers and coronavirus cases still rising, some health workers are asking: how can the system cope?

Reuters

New Zealand facing fresh COVID outbreak

New Zealand reported 13 new community coronavirus cases as the country tackles a fresh outbreak that ended an enviable run of more than 100 days without any locally transmitted infections.

CNN

How Ebola prepared one doctor for COVID-19

BBC News

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (K. Riva Levinson):

Silence is complicity whether it’s #BLM or #ZimbabweanLivesMatter

The Hill

Column (KaYesu Machayo):

What I fear about remote learning

CNN

Column (Mohammed Khelef):

Tanzania’s media law muzzles free speech

Deutsche Welle

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GOOD NEWS

Little Miss Flint aims to run for president in ’44

Amariyanna “Mari” Copeny has been engaged in activism for almost half of her life. Copeny continues to fight with incredible goals on the horizon. In fact, with a presidential run in her sights you could say she’s just getting started.

Popsuger

Black woman donates Black dolls to orphans

A Texas woman is making sure orphans in Uganda have dolls that reflect the beauty of their dark skin.

People

Parents pay it forward with school supply drive

Families in Keller ISD came together to buy more than $5,000 in school supplies for students at Fort Worth elementary school.

NBC DFW

NONPROFIT & PHILANTHROPY

Group gives survival tips to medical nonprofits

This is a terrible time for the nation’s 22,000 medical nonprofits. Fundraisers that support research and activism have been canceled since March. A Harvard group has come up with fundraising tips in the time of COVID.

USA TODAY

Massachusetts sisters start nonprofit that supports kids in need

WCVB

Museums layoffs continue amid shutdowns

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has laid off 20 percent of its staff since the COVID lockdown began. In June alone, at least 1,500 employees were laid off from museums across the United States.

Nonprofit Quarterly

ENVIRONMENT

Why the Mauritius oil spill is so serious

Unlike most previous offshore spills, this has taken place near two environmentally protected marine ecosystems and the Blue Bay Marine Park reserve, which is a wetland of international importance.

BBC News

The environmentalist cleaning up India’s lakes

Seeing a pond harmed during his adolescence inspired Arun Krishnamurthy to become a conservationist. He runs the Environmentalist Foundation of India, a nonprofit that restores freshwater lakes and ponds.

CNN

Scientists say a new ocean will form in Africa

Scientists say a new ocean will form in Africa as the continent continues to split into two. At the rate at which the Afar rift is splitting, it will take tens of million years for an ocean to eventually be formed.

Quartz

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INEQUALITY

Coronavirus exposes racial divide in France

Festering beneath France’s promise of health care for all lie deep disparities across economic and racial lines — differences laid painfully bare by the COVID-19 crisis.

Associated Press

Pandemic pushing Cambodia back into poverty

Cambodia has taken a heavy hit from the economic crisis caused by the pandemic. With firms staring at canceled orders and people losing jobs, fears grow that it could undo the nation’s progress fighting poverty.

Deutsche Welle

Photo of the Day

Sgt. Thalia Santos from Yonkers, N.Y., a member of the New York Army National Guard, carries boxed meals to a waiting vehicle at a food distribution site in the Bronx borough of New York City last week. New York National Guard members are supporting the multi-agency response to COVID-19. (Photo by U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Sean Madden) Photo used under CC BY

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