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A new COVID Global Education Recovery Tracker is monitoring school closures across the world. Aid groups say the closures have contributed to a range of increasing abuses and degradation of children’s rights across the world, often in communities were children already struggled to access education. (Photo by Vicki Francis/Department for International Development) Photo used under CC BY

800M children worldwide lack access to education

Across the world, 800 million children are still not fully back in school, UNICEF is warning, with many at risk of never returning to the classroom. As a result of lockdowns, children are being pushed into abusive situations, from early marriage to child labor.

Guardian

Guatemalan crisis drives migrants to US border

The scramble continues to find places to house unaccompanied minors who keep streaming across the U.S. southern border. A record 19,000 arrived in March. Thousands of adults are also risking their lives to try to get in.

CBS News

Central American climate migrants fight for refuge

NBCNews.com

US, UAE pledge joint effort to finance decarbonization

The United States and the United Arab Emirates will work on coordinating finance to decarbonize the economy, focusing on areas including renewable energy, hydrogen, carbon capture and storage, nature-based solutions and low-carbon urban design.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

India ramps up vaccines as COVID cases soar

India has stepped up its COVID vaccination drive amid a deadly second wave of infections. The country breached the 100,000 daily caseload mark for the first time since the pandemic began.

BBC

A year on, Haiti awaits vaccines amid apathy

Haiti does not have a single vaccine to offer its more than 11 million people over a year after the pandemic began, raising concerns among health experts that the well-being of Haitians is being pushed aside by world players.

Associated Press

How to crank up vaccine production?

Deutsche Welle

China uses musical as PR for Uighur abuses

A new state-produced musical set in Xinjiang has hit China’s cinemas, portraying a rural idyll of ethnic cohesion devoid of the repression, mass surveillance and even the Islam of its majority Uighur population.

Asia Times Online

HUMAN RIGHTS

Pakistani Shias protest massacre with grim vigil

When extremists in January attacked and killed 11 members of the Hazara, Pakista’s most persecuted minority, the prime minister condemned the massacre as an “inhumane act of terrorism.” For the Hazara, that was not enough.

Guardian

India’s all-female news outlet battles sexism

The Indian constitution bans discrimination on the basis of caste but it still persists. Lower caste Indians are beaten up and killed by members of dominant castes. Now, a news outlet attempts to shine light on the abuses.

NPR

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

Parallel government taking shape in Myanmar

Myanmar’s National League for Democracy has taken time to mount a coordinated response to the military’s coup, which toppled its elected government, arrested its top leadership and installed an abusive junta regime.

Asia Times Online

Myanmar protesters defy military, call for dissent

NBCNews.com

Myanmar protesters launch ‘Easter egg strike’

Associated Press

Mozambique town retaken from terrorists

The town in northern Mozambique that ISIS-linked fighters attacked late last month is now secure after the military killed a significant number of fighters and cleared one final area, an army spokesman has said.

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

‘Elite controllers’ can naturally suppress HIV

20 years into research, scientists now know that a small proportion of HIV patients can naturally suppress the virus, and thus avoid developing symptoms, without requiring medication.

Guardian

Plastic pollution could cause infertility

Climate change is rightly cited as an environmental crisis that could lead to human extinction. Yet there is another pollution issue, that could make it literally impossible for human beings to reproduce - plastic pollution.

Salon

GLOBAL HEALTH

Chile distributed faulty birth control pills

Chile’s government distributed faulty birth control pills. Now more than 150 people are pregnant. Without the option to terminate their pregnancies, the women are preparing to file a class action lawsuit in the civil courts.

CNN

As states expand vaccines, prisons lack access

More than half the country has opened up vaccine eligibility. But inside prisons, it’s a different story: Prisoners, not free to seek out vaccines, still lack access on the whole.

Associated Press

Meccan pilgrimage limited to COVID vaccinated

Al Jazeera

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Simon Tisdall):

Is Myanmar the new Syria? Rising violence threatens a repeat tragedy

Guardian

Column (Allan Rock):

The UN should stop playing politics with children’s lives

Al Jazeera

Column (Rodion Ebbighausen):

Naive optimism threatens Myanmar protest movement

Deutsche Welle

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GOOD NEWS

Ghanian woman starts sexual health website

“What are your sex and relationship goals for 2019?” That was the question posed to women in a deeply religious country. Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, a Ghanian writer, is encouraging women to speak out about sex.

CNN

Yazidi women choir keeps ancient music alive

With rows of tents filling a windswept hillside, the Khanke camp in northern Iraq shelters about 14,000 people from the Yazidi religious minority. Inside a small building, a dozen young women are rehearsing folk songs.

NPR

Spain drums up Easter spirit

Reuters

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

NYC teen helps adoptable dogs stand out

New York City teen Darius Brown makes pet-sized bowties that dog and cats can wear to make them stand out to potential adopters.

CNN

Charity funds enrichment activities for kids

WCVB

Solving Singapore’s food waste problem

Singapore wasted 744,000 tons of food in 2019. A teenager has started looking into possible solutions to the problem, learning that tackling waste can not only save food, but help the community, too.

BBC

ENVIRONMENT

This Japanese fruit now has a cult following

The fruit may appear unappealing at first: It looks like a wrinkly orange with a knob akin to the top knot worn by the Sumo wrestlers for which it‘s named. But it’s actually a hybrid of navel oranges and tastes extra sweet.

CNN

Ghana investigates cause for dolphin deaths

The authorities in Ghana are trying to find out what has caused more than 60 dead dolphins to wash up on several beaches. Local fishermen say the phenomenon is extremely rare and advise against eating the fish.

BBC

Coronavirus weakens fight to save Namibia’s rhinos

Deutsche Welle

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

IMF upgrades forecast for 2021 global growth

The rollout of COVID vaccines and vast sums of government aid will accelerate global economic growth to a record high this year in a powerful rebound from the pandemic recession, the IMF says in its latest forecast.

Associated Press

The Aboriginal First XI: Australia’s first international cricket team

CNN

Photo of the Day

Children herding cattle in Mozambique. Experts warn that the escalating Islamist insurgency in north Mozambique over the past four years can only be halted with a coordinated military and development effort involving African and western countries; otherwise, it risks spiraling further out of control. (Photo by Steve Evans) Photo used under CC BY

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