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Activist protests the killing of Lumads, an indigenous community in the southern Philippines that has lost ancestral land to encroachment by mining, logging, and energy companies. While South and Central America have historically been the deadliest region for defending land rights, the Philippines suffered the third largest number of deaths over the issue in 2020. (Photo by Charles Edward Miller) Photo used under CC BY

Murders of land activists hit record high in 2020

Murders of environment and land defenders hit a record high last year as the violent resource grab in the global south continued unabated despite the pandemic. New figures show that 227 people were killed in 2020 while trying to protect forests, rivers and other ecosystems.

Guardian

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi skips court over dizziness

Deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi was unable to appear at a court hearing this week for health reasons, a member of her legal team said, describing her condition as dizziness caused by motion sickness.

Reuters

UN urged to retain Kyaw Moe Tun as Myanmar ambassador

Al Jazeera

Fear, uncertainty for Myanmar dissidents in Thailand

Al Jazeera

Africa’s COVID response spikes teenage pregnancy

Lockdowns and other restrictions imposed due to the COVID pandemic have led to a rise in teenage pregnancies in Africa. International aid groups say there is cause for concern and are warning of the long-term consequences early pregnancies have on young girls.

Deutsche Welle

Afghan economy will collapse without aid

A UN envoy urged the world to keep money flowing into Afghanistan despite concerns over the Taliban government, warning the already poor country could otherwise suffer a historic breakdown.

Asia Times Online

Afghans sell possessions amid cash crunch

Al Jazeera

‘I thought this was the end of my life:’ Afghan journalists describe savage beatings by Taliban

CNN

Indonesia ends deforestation pact with Norway

Indonesia has ended a deal with Norway on cooperation to reduce carbon emissions by limiting yearly deforestation, due to a lack of payment, the foreign ministry said in a statement.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

250K Indians were evicted during pandemic

More than 250,000 people were evicted across India during the pandemic, and millions more are at risk of being uprooted as authorities eye projects for faster economic growth, housing rights campaigners warned this week.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

HUMAN RIGHTS

Afghan asylum-seekers are protesting in India

Several thousand Afghan nationals who arrived in India over the past few decades are demanding greater rights for themselves, just as the country begins to take in those fleeing the current crisis.

Deutsche Welle

Afghans seeking refuge in Pakistan

Al Jazeera

US cracks down on forced labor imports

With the closing of an old loophole, the U.S. is blocking the import of millions of dollars worth of clothing and other goods made with “slave” labor.

NBCNews.com

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Taliban hardliners take key posts in Afghanistan

The Taliban announced their government this week, with a UN-blacklisted veteran of the hardline movement in the top role, weeks after they swept to power and toppled the US-backed president.

Asia Times Online

Moroccans elect new leaders in shadow of virus

Moroccans are choosing a new parliament and local leaders this week in elections that have been reshaped by the pandemic, and whose outcome is hard to predict as opinion polls were not allowed.

Associated Press

S. Korean democracy slowly eroding away

In South Korea plans to tighten press, broadcast and online commentary laws are the latest in a series of new free expression restrictions.

Asia Times Online

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Taliban takes control of US-built databases

Over two decades, the U.S. and its allies spent hundreds of millions of dollars building databases for the Afghan people. That digital apparatus — including biometrics for verifying identities — apparently fell into Taliban hands.

Associated Press

NASA confirms 1st Mars rock sample grab

NASA’s newest Mars rover has completed its first sample grab, tucking away the tube of rock for return to Earth.

Associated Press

GLOBAL HEALTH

Vietnam gasps for air as Delta deals lethal blow

Vietnam recorded just 1,500 infections and 35 deaths for the whole of 2020 but the country’s COVID winning streak has dramatically reversed with grave implications for global supply chains.

Asia Times Online

COVID: Why is Europe donating so many vaccines to Vietnam?

Deutsche Welle

WHO says COVID will mutate, likely here to stay

COVID is likely “here to stay with us” as the virus continues to mutate in unvaccinated countries across the world and previous hopes of eradicating it diminish, global health officials said this week.

CNBC

Scientists are keeping an eye on new COVID variant found in S. Africa

CNN

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Leda Glyptis):

To achieve financial inclusion, we must tackle access to money

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Column (George Monbiot):

We can’t build our way out of the environmental crisis

Guardian

Column (Michael Jennings):

How to aid Afghanistan? Hold your nose

Asia Times Online

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GOOD NEWS

Armless swimmer wins four gold medals

Chinese para-swimmer Zheng Tao has won the internet after shattering records and winning four gold medals at the Tokyo Games - despite having no arms.

Yahoo! News

Dad builds exoskeleton for son who uses wheelchair so he can walk again

Good Morning America

12-year-old entrepreneur expands recycling business

ABC 7

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Study shows women embrace crowdfunding

Nearly one in three women give to a crowdfunding campaign in a typical year, and 40.8 percent have given to a crowdfunding campaign at some point in the past.

NonProfit Times

Massachusetts nonprofit inspires volunteers

SPUR is a self-described community of doers who try to make volunteering easy. Volunteers respond to all kinds of needs, organizing everything from environmental clean-ups to holiday drives.

WCVB

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

India fears ‘lost generation’ of students

Children have been out of school for over a year, raising worries about students falling behind. In India this month, some states have started allowing schools to reopen.

Deutsche Welle

Eswatini’s elderly grow cannabis to feed kids

In the poverty-stricken kingdom of Eswatini, an older generation rely on growing marijuana to feed children orphaned by the AIDS epidemic.

Guardian

ENVIRONMENT

Japan scrutinized on radioactive water dump

Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency asked Japan this week for detailed information about a plan to release treated but still radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean.

Associated Press

Fossil fuel projects get more aid than fixing air

Governments around the world gave 20% more in overseas aid funding to fossil fuel projects in 2019 and 2020 than to programs to cut the air pollution they cause.

Guardian

Saving Australian frog species on the brink of extinction

BBC

Madagascar faces climate change famine

As the African island nation Madagascar experiences a food-security crisis driven by global warming, researchers say it is an alarm bell for the world.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Photo of the Day

Vietnamese policeman adjusts a citizens mask in the city of Soc Trang. Vietnam in 2020 was a leader in containing COVID and protecting its citizens. The country was able to provide a surplus of protective equipment to places around the world hit hardest by COVID. In recent months, COVID has spiked causing thousands of deaths amid low vaccination numbers. (Photo by Đài Truyền Thanh) Photo used under CC BY

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