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A young Afghan boy. When one includes all casualties and those lost due to the indirect causes of war, like displacement and famine, the ratio of Afghan civilian losses to allied military losses goes from 10:1 to a staggering 100:1. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Joseph Swafford) Photo used under CC BY

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Afghanistan’s forgotten humanitarian crisis

According to the UN, 1,692 Afghan civilians have been killed in the conflict in the first half of 2018. While UN reports and humanitarian groups keep reminding the world of the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, many Westerners are unaware of it.

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Reasons for hope amid Afghanistan’s endless war

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CNN

UN puts cost of Syria war destruction at $388B

Seven years of relentless conflict in Syria have wreaked destruction that the United Nations said had cost the country close to $400 billion. Figures released after a two-day conference don’t include the economic cost of “human loss.”

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Times of Israel

In Ghana, growing wealth brings deadly conflict

Agricultural development in northern Ghana is lifting people out of poverty, but researchers say progress has come at a deadly cost, worsening an age-old conflict between farmers and herders.

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

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Ghana president opposes legalizing homosexuality

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Pulse

Argentina senate declines to legalize abortion

Argentina’s senate has rejected a bill which would have legalized abortion. Currently abortion is allowed in Argentina only in cases of rape, or if the mother’s health is in danger.

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BBC

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Latin America’s fight to legalize abortion: the key battlegrounds

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Guardian

Latin American land ownership deeply unequal

Various studies indicate that Latin America has the most uneven land ownership in the world, including a report released this year by the UN.

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U.S. News & World Report

Peruvian women breaking into porter industry

The Evolution co-op is the first Peruvian travel agency to hire women porters. They pay workers a fair wage; provide porters food, tents, and sleeping mats; and offer jobs to those living along the trail.

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National Geographic

HUMAN RIGHTS

Ecuador increasing protections for human rights

Ecuadorians have been unable to secure their basic human rights over the past decade. This changed when President Lenin Moreno publicly stated his respect for free speech and civil society after taking office in May 2017.

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Borgen Magazine

Rohingya rape survivors battle stigma

In a community that considers victims of sexual violence a disgrace, women are left alone to suffer. UNHCR’s health units in Kutapalong camp has recruited community health volunteers from the refugees themselves in a bid to break down these social attitudes.

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Al Jazeera

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Pakistan opposition protests election results

Hundreds of protesters held a demonstration rejecting the results of Pakistan’s general election in the capital Islamabad, demanding an investigation into allegations of widespread irregularities during vote counting.

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Al Jazeera

Germany and Spain agree on migrant return

Berlin and Madrid have agreed to return to Spain some migrants arriving in Germany. The German interior minister is hoping for more bilateral agreements to return migrants to their point of entry into Europe.

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S. African tribes face fate on homeland rights

A hardscrabble patch of South Africa disputed between black farmers and tribal leaders working with platinum mining interests is legal ground zero in a battle to loosen the chiefs’ grip on communal lands.

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Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Palestinians use sun to reduce power shortfall

Individuals have taken it on themselves to install solar panels, trailing cables down the side of buildings to keep fans whirring or to power televisions and other appliances.

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Reuters

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Kenyan uses solar power to drive car

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New drug could be a boon for treating malaria

The first new treatment in 60 years for a particularly stubborn kind of malaria is raising hopes that it might help eradicate the disease, even though the treatment can cause a dangerous side effect.

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Science News

GLOBAL HEALTH

Scourge of superbugs killing Malawi’s babies

Malawi is facing an epidemic of infections causing sepsis, one of the leading causes of death among newborns. It killed nearly 20 percent of them in 2016; by comparison, in the UK, sepsis is responsible for less than 2 percent of infant deaths.

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CNN

US guarding pharma profits in developing world

The U.S. is seeking to remove language asserting the legal right for developing countries to override patents and license low-cost versions of expensive TB medicines.

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Venezuela crisis permits measles to spread

The spread of measles in Venezuela is a result of insufficient immunization due to a lack of vaccines, the failure of the government to recognize the epidemic, and mass displacement.

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SciDev

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Owen Jones):

Austerity kills: Britain’s improvement in life expectancy slows

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Guardian

Column (Ruth McCambridge):

A made man and his six nonprofits: An ode to regulators

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NPQ

Column (Ryan Beene and Alan Levine):

Venezuela attack highlights vulnerability to drone assassins

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Bloomberg

Column (Richard Reeves):

Economic inequality is an urgent problem. Deeper still is our loss of mutual respect, the foundation of a fair society

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Aeon

Column (Nayantara Ranganathan):

India’s data protection draft ignores key next-generation rights

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Asia Times Online

Column (Chipo Dendere):

What next for Zimbabwe’s opposition?

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Al Jazeera

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When temperatures rise in South Africa, so do the crime rates

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Quartz

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GOOD NEWS

Displaced Bosnians support Balkan refugees

Once, they were on the run. Today, former Bosnian refugees are demanding one thing above all from their home country: humanity toward the displaced people from Syria and other countries seeking refuge there.

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Workers with autism, Down run Tehran cafe

But the cafe not only provides work for those with Down syndrome and autism, it also shows how capable they can be.

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Tampa Bay Times

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Nonprofit focused on housing to shut down

Over the years, the organization has fielded housing discrimination complaints and counsels thousands of residents through its hotline by offering info about evictions, security deposits and maintenance issues.

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Baltimore Business Journal

Philly nonprofits join forces to feed people

The convergence of three nonprofits has amounted to 500 free lunches that otherwise would have never existed.

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Billy Penn

ENVIRONMENT

Thousands of fish die in Swiss Rhine

Thousands of fish have died in Swiss sections of the River Rhine as Europe’s heat wave continues. Authorities say they have pulled a ton of dead fish from the river and have tried to implement measures to save others.

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BBC

China backs illegal timbering in New Guinea

China as the main destination for Papua New Guinea’s timber, will help shore up illegality in the country’s forestry sector.

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Mongabay

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Deforestation makes soil lose water

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Videoman

ECONOMY

Nigerian exchanges unite for development

ASEN aims at advocating for policies that promote cooperatives, building capacity of the Nigerian capital market and undertake growth projects targeted at benefitting the Nigerian capital market among others.

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The Nation Online Nigeria

Oscar Onyema gives thoughts on collaboration

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CNBC Africa

Philippine inflation uncontrollable

Newly released statistics show inflation rising at the fastest rate in over five years. It marks the fifth consecutive month that inflation breached the central bank’s target band.

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Asia Times Online

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Kalashi women dance to herald the arrival of spring in Pakistan. (Photo by Noreen Gulwani) Photo used under CC BY

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