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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

Taliban to ban sports for Afghan women

Afghan women, including the country’s women’s cricket team, will be banned from playing sports under the new Taliban government, according to an official in the hardline Islamist group.

Guardian

Muslim women footballers tackle French hijab ban

Al Jazeera

Palestinians support escape of Israeli prisoners

A few hundred Palestinians held protests in the occupied West Bank in support of six militants who broke out of a maximum security Israeli jail in an escape that has boosted Palestinian spirits and alarmed Israelis.

Reuters

Greece plans firm hand on Afghan migrants

Greece would seek to block a potential wave of Afghan asylum-seekers fleeing Taliban rule and needs more European Union help on migrant issues, the prime minister said this week.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Tunisia’s president plans to amend constitution

Tunisia‘s President Kais Saied this week indicated he was preparing to change the country’s constitution, but said he would only do so using existing constitutional means.

Reuters

Brazil judge claps back at Bolsonaro threat

The Brazilian Supreme Court’s Chief Justice Luiz Fux issued a sharp rebuttal to President Jair Bolsonaro after the right-wing leader escalated his feud with the court by vowing to no longer abide by one of its justice’s rulings.

Associated Press

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Attendance app in India raises privacy fears

An attendance app for thousands of public school teachers in Delhi, India raises concerns over privacy and growing surveillance.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Hackers are leaking children’s data

NBCNews.com

Scientists use snakes to monitor radiation

Researchers have used snakes fitted with tracking devices and dosimeters to measure radiation levels in the area around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, which suffered triple meltdowns in March 2011.

Guardian

GLOBAL HEALTH

Nigeria faces deadly cholera outbreak

Nigeria is seeing one of its worst cholera outbreaks in years, with more than 2,300 people dying from suspected cases as Africa’s most populous country struggles to deal with multiple disease outbreaks.

Associated Press

Tanzania secures $600M for COVID relief

The International Monetary Fund’s executive board has approved $567 million in emergency support for Tanzania to help it finance a COVID vaccination campaign and meet the health and social costs of the pandemic.

Al Jazeera

Doctor brings life-saving care to remote areas of the world

CNN

WHO chief urges halt to COVID booster shots

Rich countries with large supplies of COVID vaccines should refrain from offering booster shots through the end of the year and make the doses available for poorer countries, the head of the World Health Organization said.

Associated Press

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Michael Hastings and Joakim Reiter):

Colonial funding models hamper the growth of African charities

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Editorial:

The Guardian view on Brazil’s Bolsonaro: democracy is under attack

Guardian

Column (Ashley Nancy Reynolds):

Don’t sacrifice human rights in the name of development

Al Jazeera

Site edited by: Jameson O'Neal, Catherine Lux, Matthew Leonard and Ashley Nawn.

GOOD NEWS

US families invite Afghan refugees into homes

When United States families watched the coverage of tens of thousands of people fleeing Afghanistan last month as the Taliban took over, some stepped up to help.

Good Morning America

WWII veteran celebrates his 112th birthday

Lawrence Brooks, the nation’s oldest living WWII veteran, marked his 112th birthday with a celebration outside his Louisiana home.

People

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

More than $1B in aid pledged for Afghanistan

More than $1 billion in aid has been pledged for Afghanistan to help ease the humanitarian crises, as millions of people in the country could soon run out of food and the economy is on the verge of collapse.

CNN

Red Cross calls for more aid into Afghanistan

Reuters

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Lockdown leaves Vietnam’s poor without food

Vietnam was a COVID success story but the latest lockdown, with people unable to leave the house even for food, is leaving tens of thousands hungry

Guardian

Librarian recycles phones to offer e-learning content

Deutsche Welle

ENVIRONMENT

Cows toilet trained to reduce gas emissions

Cows can be toilet trained in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, researchers have said. In the study, which took place in Germany, scientists trained the animals to use a designated toilet.

BBC

Polar bears are inbreeding as climate changes

A recent study published found that on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, polar bear populations have seen a 10 percent loss in their genetic diversity from 1995 to 2016 as a result of rapid ice loss as the climate changes.

CBS News

Climate change could see 200M move by 2050

Climate change could push more than 200 million people to leave their homes in the next three decades and create migration hot spots unless urgent action is taken to reduce global emissions and bridge the development gap.

Associated Press

Photo of the Day

A pharmacist in an International Medical Corps mobile health clinic dispenses medicine to a sick child in a remote village in Pakistan’s Sindh province after a flood devastated the country in 2010 and left mobile medics looking for signs of the deadly cholera bacteria. Cholera outbreaks often occur in places where flooding and poor sanitation is prominent. Nigeria has been experiencing one of its worst outbreaks in years as a result of these conditions. (Photo by Vicki Francis) Photo used under CC BY

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