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Organizations such as the United Farm Workers Foundation providing families still in crisis from the pandemic with much-needed food relief. The International Labor Organization warned in its latest report that into 2022, employment growth will be too weak to provide sufficient opportunities for people who lost jobs or working hours during the height of the pandemic and in the months that followed. (Photo by TJ Cox) Photo used under CC BY

Job loss to remain high due to slow vaccines

Slower‐than‐expected vaccine rollouts and a resurgence of COVID variants in early 2021 have dampened the global jobs recovery forecast, with losses in both working hours and employment remaining high throughout this year and into 2022.

Al Jazeera

Indian households face pandemic pain

India is battling a second wave of the COVID pandemic, as it has already inflicted a heavy toll on the incomes and savings of the country’s households due to the demise of a breadwinner, job losses or salary cuts.

Asia Times Online

Indian variant discovered in China’s Guangzhou

Asia Times Online

Malaysia teeters on edge of COVID catastrophe

Asia Times Online

Myanmar banks on edge of a coup-caused collapse

Myanmar’s private banks are teetering as anxious depositors rush to withdraw funds amid coup-caused political instability, concerns about the country’s underlying finances and an emerging shortage of kyat currency notes.

Asia Times Online

Boycott and bombings mar Myanmar’s new school year

Reuters

Health crisis hits Myanmar amid closed hospitals

Deutsche Welle

Global organizations pitch for vaccine equity

The heads of the WHO, IMF, WTO and World Bank warn vaccine inequality is prolonging the COVID pandemic. Ending the crisis, they say, “requires global action now.”

Deutsche Welle

Humanitarian workers targeted, killed in Tigray

An Ethiopian national working for an Italian charity was killed in the war-hit Tigray region after he was “hit by a stray bullet,” according to his employer.

Associated Press

Mali suspended from AU; sanctions threatened

Mali’s membership in the African Union has been suspended effective immediately, and the impoverished country has been threatened with sanctions following the second military coup in nine months.

Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

El Salvador to free harshly punished woman

A court in El Salvador has ordered the release of a young woman sentenced to 30 years in prison for homicide following the accidental death of her unborn child in 2012.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Canadians call officials to action as country mourns discovery of a mass grave of children’s remains

CNN

Rohingya refugees protest living conditions

Several thousand Rohingya refugees have staged “unruly” protests against living conditions on a cyclone-prone island off Bangladesh where they were moved from vast camps on the mainland, police said.

Al Jazeera

Vatican outlaws abuse of adults by priests

Pope Francis has changed church law to explicitly criminalize the sexual abuse of adults by priests who abuse their authority, and to say that laypeople who hold church office can be sanctioned for similar sex crimes.

Associated Press

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Israel opposition face deadline for new govt

Israeli opposition leaders say they are close to forming a new government that would end Benjamin Netanyahu’s 12-year stretch as prime minister, saying they hope to form a “government of change”.

BBC

Same-sex marriage bill expedited in Chile

Chilean President Sebastián Piñera said this week he would seek to expedite a same-sex marriage bill that has languished in the historically conservative South American nation for years.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Kenya pledges millions to fight gender violence

Kenya’s president pledged millions of dollars in state funds to help tackle a surge in gender-based violence during the pandemic, outlining plans to open women’s shelters across the country and improve policing.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Ugandan minister hospitalized after gun attack

A former army chief in Uganda has been wounded and his daughter killed after gunmen shot at the car in which they were being driven this week.

Associated Press

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Rover snaps images from first 100 days on Mars

NASA’s Perseverance rover is celebrating 100 Martian days since landing on Mars, where it is hunting for signs of past microbial life, and seeking to investigate the planet’s geology and past climate.

BBC

Curiosity rover spies colorful iridescent clouds on Mars

CNN

Prehistoric carvings found in Scottish tomb

Delicate prehistoric carvings of adult red deer, thought to be the oldest of their type in the UK, have been found in a tomb in one of Scotland’s most famous Neolithic sites.

Guardian

GLOBAL HEALTH

COVID-crushed Brazil nears 500k deaths

Brazil registered 43,520 new daily cases of COVID this weekend, reaching a total of 16.5 million cases. The country registered 874 new deaths, raising the total to 461,931.

Reuters

Brazil COVID: Deaths plunge after town’s adults vaccinated

BBC

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GOOD NEWS

Abandoned albino baby now model in Vogue

Xueli Abbing, 16, who was left outside an orphanage in China, is rapidly building a successful career, even featuring in the pages of Vogue Italia, while simultaneously breaking down the stigma surrounding her condition.

MSN

Otter feared extinct resurfaces in Argentina

Once believed to be locally extinct, a wild giant otter was sighted in Argentina’s Impenetrable National Park. The species hasn’t been seen in the country for 40 years.

Mongabay

Projects making a difference to bees in 2021

Positive News

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Foundation commits $10M for hunger, poverty

The PIMCO Foundation has announced a five-year, $10 million commitment to the Global Food Banking Network in support of efforts to improve access to food in communities facing hunger and poverty.

Philanthropy News Digest

COVID led to scale-up of mid-level fundraising

The COVID pandemic has accelerated the growth of fundraising programs targeting mid-level donors, a report from fundraising consultancy Sea Change Strategies finds.

Philanthropy News Digest

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Severe child malnutrition surges in Haiti

Severe acute childhood malnutrition is expected to more than double this year in Haiti amid the pandemic, rising crime and low resources, UNICEF said.

BBC

Kashmiri farmers crushed by lockdowns

Strawberry farmers in Kashmir are harvesting a bumper crop this year, but pandemic lockdown measures mean they can’t get their strawberries to market or to customers.

Deutsche Welle

ENVIRONMENT

G7 focus funds on fossil fuel vs green energy

The nations that make up the G7 have pumped billions of dollars more into fossil fuels than they have into clean energy since the COVID pandemic, despite their promises of a green recovery.

Guardian

Scotland to plant 18M trees this year

Councils in the Glasgow area have pledged to plant 18m trees – equivalent to 10 trees for every resident – as the city prepares to host a global climate summit later this year.

Guardian

Photo of the Day

Family members in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. The war-hit region is facing a serious risk of famine if assistance is not scaled up in the next two months, senior UN officials have warned. (Photo by Achilli Family) Photo used under CC BY

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