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Women worldwide struggle to safely manage periods

A new report from UNICEF and the World Health Organization has revealed that significant proportions of women in many developing countries are still struggling to safely manage their periods.

CNN

Female Nigerian IDPs learn to protect selves

Being a woman in one of northern Nigeria’s internally displaced person camps is far from easy. Women and girls in the region are in need of protection against gender-based and sexual violence.

Deutsche Welle

14M IDPs hit hard by COVID in East and Horn of Africa

Guardian Nigeria

Russia lending Myanmar a deadly helping hand

Russia has emerged as the most outspoken global power to support Myanmar’s military junta installed after Min Aung Hlaing’s democracy-suspending Feb. 1 coup and subsequent lethal suppression of anti-coup street protests.

Asia Times Online

Myanmar military targets lawyers defending political prisoners

Al Jazeera

US journalist says he was tortured during detention in Myanmar

Guardian

Canada schools robbed native kids of identity

In Canada, the discovery of more than 1,000 unmarked graves on the grounds of former church-run residential schools for First Nations children shocked many Canadians. The discovery is just the tip of the iceberg.

Guardian

Ethiopia denies trying to ‘suffocate’ Tigray

Ethiopia’s government denied accusations that it’s trying to “suffocate the Tigray people” by denying them urgently needed food and other aid, even as transport and communications links remained severed to the region.

Associated Press

What you need to know about the conflict in Ethiopia

CNN

HUMAN RIGHTS

Lebanese judge targets top officials in port blast

The Lebanese judge leading the investigation into last year’s massive explosion at Beirut’s port announced he intends to pursue senior politicians and former and current security chiefs in the case.

Associated Press

Court jails 10 for child trafficking in Ivory Coast

A court in Ivory Coast this week sentenced 10 people found guilty of child trafficking to 10 years in jail, part of an effort to clamp down on organized networks that smuggle children to work in cocoa plantations.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

France probes fashion retailers for concealing ‘crimes against humanity’ in Xinjiang

Reuters

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Leader of Nigerian separatist group arrested

A Nigerian leading a movement calling for the secession of part of southeast Nigeria has been arrested and is to stand trial in the capital, Abuja, authorities said.

Associated Press

Pro-democracy protests rock Eswatini kingdom

The South African government has urged calm and restraint in Eswatini which has been engulfed by pro-democracy protests this week amid growing reports of state violence against demonstrators.

Associated Press

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Bacteria in cow’s stomach breaks down plastic

Bacteria found in one of the compartments of a cow’s stomach can break down plastic, research suggests. plastic pollution is all-pervasive, with people unwittingly consuming and breathing microplastic particles.

Guardian

Research finds earliest person dead to plague

A hunter-gatherer who lived more than 5,000 years ago is the earliest known person to have died with the plague, researchers report.

Guardian

GLOBAL HEALTH

Myanmar orders lockdown as COVID cases rise

Myanmar authorities imposed stay-at-home-measures on the country’s second city Friday as coronavirus cases in the coup-wracked country surge, with many health workers striking to protest against the junta.

Asia Times Online

India COVID death toll crosses 400K amid heat

India has reached the grim milestone of 400,000 deaths from COVID, half of them during a second wave in the past few months that overwhelmed the nation’s health care system and crematoriums.

Al Jazeera

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Sylvia Mwehozi):

Samia must bring Tanzania to post-Magufuli era

Deutsche Welle

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Ethiopia is falling apart, but Abiy still has a choice

Al Jazeera

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Critical race theory demeans Black people

Microsoft News

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GOOD NEWS

Conservation resurrects world’s smallest hog

Twelve pygmy hogs were released back into northeast India as part of a conservation program made to resurrect the species from near-extinction in the 1960s.

Gizmodo

Aspiring teachers get help paying for college

New rules kick in today that will help aspiring U.S. teachers pay for college and complete a years-long overhaul of the federal TEACH Grant program.

NPR

Short-staffed Waffle House crew gets help from tired officers

WVLT-TV Knoxville

Meals on Wheels drivers help seniors amid heat wave

KING5 Seattle

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Foundations commit 2.5B to gender equality

The Bill & Melinda Gates, Ford and Open Society foundations have announced commitments of $2.1 billion, $420 million and $100 million, respectively, over five years in support of efforts to advance gender equality.

Philanthropy News Digest

Instagram boosts group fundraising abilities

Social media platform Instagram has added a new feature to its fundraising capabilities. The new functionality allows users who have created fundraisers to invite other individuals to become co-sponsors of their efforts.

NonProfit Times

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Master plan for India’s Delhi may bypass poor

Planners in the Indian capital of Delhi have set out a vision for a “sustainable, livable and vibrant” future city in a master plan that experts say ignores its informal workers and bypasses its many poor.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Immigrants’ children struggle to get employed

The children of immigrants from minority ethnic groups in the United Kingdom are better educated than their white British peers but less likely to be employed, according to newly published research.

CNN

ENVIRONMENT

Companies extract water from desert air

SOURCE Global is one of the many companies around the world extracting water from the air, with the hope of helping communities in water-scarce regions.

CNN

Remote Greek island to become energy self-sufficient

Microsoft News

Fishless fish could be the next big thing

Microsoft News

Polar bears’ ‘last refuge’ vulnerable to warming

A new study finds that an area of the Arctic Ocean critical for the survival of polar bears is fast becoming vulnerable to climate change.

BBC

Millions suffer in severe heat wave in India

Tens of millions of people in northern India are suffering under a severe heat wave that has struck New Delhi as monsoon rains run late.

Al Jazeera

Brazil sees most June fires in Amazon in years

Brazil recorded the most fires in the Amazon rainforest in 14 years for the month of June, government data showed, amid worries that an extreme drought in many parts of the region could fuel worse fires this year.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Photo of the Day

Women playing backgammon in Serik, Turkey. Thousands of people took to the streets of Turkey‘s largest cities this week protest the country’s withdrawal from an international treaty to combat violence against women, a move that has drawn strong criticism from Western allies. (Photo by Abuk Sabuk) Photo used under CC BY

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