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Female students reading at the Abbazhan School in Gereshk, Afghanistan, in 2010. The Taliban’s recent move to bar women from teaching or studying at Kabul University foreshadows dim prospects for Afghan women’s professional and academic ambitions in the months to come under Taliban rule. (Photo by Sean Clee) Photo used under CC BY

Afghan women barred from attending university

Women will no longer be allowed to attend classes or work at Kabul University “until an Islamic environment is created,” the school’s new Taliban-appointed chancellor announced. His appointment chancellor was met with a storm of criticism over his lack of credentials.

CNN

Kabul remains quiet amid growing Taliban fear

CNN

Tunisia’s opposition stands up to power grab

At first, Tunisia praised President Kais Saied for suspending Tunisia’s parliament to resolve Tunisia’s problems. But over the past week, he has come under increasing pressure for not returning the country to its democratic course.

Deutsche Welle

Romdhane named Tunisia’s first female PM

Al Jazeera

6M premature births laid to air pollution annually

Air pollution is likely to have been responsible for up to 6 million premature births and 3 million underweight babies every year, research shows. More than 92 percent of the global population lives in areas where the air quality is below recommended limits.

Guardian

EU states breached air pollution limits in 2020

Reuters

Sexual assaults are linked to dementia, strokes

One in three women experience sexual assault. Women who have experienced sexual violence are more likely to develop disruptions to blood flow in the brain, which may contribute to dementia and strokes.

Deutsche Welle

Taiwan’s civilians train to resist China invasion

Taiwan is presenting workshops that teach first aid and prepare civilians to assist armed forces if China attacks. Analysts say China is closer to being capable of invading Taiwan than it has been in decades.

Guardian

Kenya bans documentary on LGBTQ sexuality

Activists and film producers have criticized a decision by the Kenya Film Classification Board to ban “I am Sam,” a documentary about a Kenyan man struggling with his sexuality.

Guardian

HUMAN RIGHTS

Taliban will resume executions, amputations

The Taliban will resume executions and the amputation of hands for criminals they convict, in a return to their harsh version of Islamic justice.

Guardian

Colombians march for social policy for poor

Thousands of Colombian protesters returned to the streets of major cities this week to once again demand that Congress approve union-backed social policies to benefit the poorest.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Children are ‘wasting away’ in Syrian camps

Save the Children slams foreign governments for failing to repatriate their citizens from refugee camps in northeast Syria, where children face a host of threats.

Al Jazeera

Japan urged to reform consent in abortion law

Women’s health campaigners have urged Japan’s government to amend a law that forces married women to seek consent from their husbands before they can have an abortion.

Guardian

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Chad’s military names transitional parliament

Mahamat Idriss Deby, the head of Chad’s military government, has named 93 members of a new interim parliament, five months after declaring himself leader following the death of his father, longtime President Idriss Deby.

Al Jazeera

Former Liberian leader liable for massacre

A former Liberian military commander who supervised the slaughter of unarmed civilians at a church during that country’s civil war in 1990 is liable under U.S. law for participating in extrajudicial killings and torture.

MSN

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

African sex workers face digital abuse

A lack of digital security awareness is leaving African sex workers vulnerable to having their photos and videos shared without their consent.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Scientists find Africa’s first ankylosaur fossil

Fossil hunters have unearthed remnants of the oldest – and probably weirdest – ankylosaur known so far from a site in the Middle Atlas mountains in Morocco.

Guardian

GLOBAL HEALTH

Malaria becoming resistant to key drug in Africa

Scientists have found evidence of a resistant form of malaria in Uganda, a worrying sign that the top drug used against the parasitic disease could ultimately be rendered useless without more action to stop its spread.

Associated Press

UN health agency sets higher bar for air quality

The harmful health effects of air pollution kick in at lower levels than previously thought, the World Health Organization said as it set a new standard for policymakers in the first update of its air quality guidelines in 15 years.

Associated Press

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Paula Gioia):

Small-scale farmers must control our food system

Deutsche Welle

Column (Aisha Saleh):

Climate change is increasing poverty. Marrying off girls isn’t the solution

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Column (Michael Howard):

Time for consensus on recognizing Myanmar NUG

Asia Times Online

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GOOD NEWS

Indian teaches communities to nurture trees

Trees are good for biodiversity and people. Which is why sociology professor Shyam Sunder Jyani encourages communities in Rajasthan —one of India’s driest regions— to nurture them like loved ones.

Deutsche Welle

All-female banda group challenges industry norms

ABC 7 News

This student is changing the world one cookie at a time

Good Morning America

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Foundation commits $150M for COVID relief

The LEGO Foundation has announced a $150 million commitment in support of children and families across the world affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Philanthropy News Digest

Donors pledge $5B to protect nature

A group of private donors pledged a record $5 billion to help safeguard the planet’s plants, animals and ecosystems at an event during the United Nations General Assembly this week.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Lebanon’s inflation is worse than rest of world

Lebanon’s annual rate of inflation has risen to the highest of all countries tracked by Bloomberg, surpassing Zimbabwe and Venezuela, as the financial meltdown in the Middle East nation worsens.

Al Jazeera

Brazil struggling with rising inflation

Deutsche Welle

How struggling families manage to feed their kids in a pandemic

NPR

S. Sudanese refugees homeless after floods

Heavy rainfall and flash floods have inundated South Sudanese refugee camps in Sudan, displacing thousands again.

Al Jazeera

ENVIRONMENT

China to stop funding overseas coal projects

Chinese President Xi Jinping has said that China would no longer fund the construction of new coal-fired power projects overseas, surprising the world on climate at the United Nations General Assembly.

Al Jazeera

Why India can’t live without coal

BBC

Abandoned taxis in Thailand turned into vegetable gardens

Deutsche Welle

Photo of the Day

The November 1999 public execution of Zarmeena, an Afghan woman convicted of murdering her husband while he was asleep, at the Ghazi stadium in Kabul, Afghanistan. After a month of Taliban control in Afghanistan, the head of Afghan prisons remarked that the Taliban will privately resume executions and the amputation of hands for criminals. (Photo by Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan) Photo used under CC BY

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