2 degrees: The most important number you've never heard of
By John D. Sutter, CNN
In the two years since, I've traveled the world writing about social justice issues that you selected in an online poll: I went undercover in Southeast Asia to follow the illegal trade in the pangolin, the world's most trafficked mammal; I flew to a lawless town in Alaska to learn why that state has America's highest rate of reported rape; I spent three weeks kayaking (and walking) a river in California that's so dry it fails to reach the sea; and I met a family in Silicon Valley that's living in a garage despite that region's booming wealth from the technology sector.
Those experiences have strengthened my belief in the power of democratic journalism. Editors shouldn't get all the control. You, the audience, have a vital say, too.
Still, in the two years since I asked for your ideas, I haven't done much, if anything, to addressone of the topics you most frequently asked me to cover: climate change.
UN expert: rich countries must take in one million refugees to stop boat deaths
UN special rapporteur says inaction on refugees is creating a market for people smugglers, and says world needs to take in a million Syrians over next five yearsWealthy countries should agree on a comprehensive plan to take one million refugees from Syria over the next five years to end the unfolding series of boat disasters in the Mediterranean, the UN’s special rapporteur on the human rights of migrants has urged.
In a Guardian interview, François Crépeau said Europe was creating a market for people smugglers by failing to act on Syria. He said his plan could be extended to seven years or widenedto include other nationalities, including Eritreans who have been fleeing war.
“We know a great number of Syrians in particular are going to leave these countries and if we don’t provide any official mechanism for them to do so, they will resort to smugglers. The inaction of Europe is actually what creates the market for smugglers,” said Crépeau, a law professor at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
Turkey says it shares pain of Armenians but rejects genocide claim
German parliament expected to call 1915 massacres ‘genocide’ on Friday’s centenary
Daniel McLaughlin
Turkey has said it “shares the pain” of Armenians who are marking a century since their ancestors were massacred by the Ottomans, but vowed never to accept that the killing of up to 1.5 million people was genocide.
Ankara offered condolences to Armenians as they use the build-up to Friday’s centenary to press for greater international recognition that they suffered genocide. Germany became the latest state to move towards such a stance.
“We once again respectfully remember and share the pain of grandchildren and children of Ottoman Armenians who lost their lives during deportation in 1915,” Turkish prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu said in a statement.
Court approves restart of Japanese nuclear reactors despite safety fears
April 22, 2015 - 12:22PMKentaro Hamada
Kagoshima: A Japanese court has approved the restart of Kyushu Electric Power's Sendai nuclear power station, rejecting a legal bid to halt the process by residents worried about the safety of the plant.
The decision by the Kagoshima District Court on Wednesday, clears another hurdle for the plant to begin starting up as early as June as the government pushes to restart Japan's idled nuclear industry four years after the Fukushima disaster.
It also suggests a court ruling last week to prevent the operation of two reactors west of Tokyo may have been an aberration for Japan's conservative judiciary. Anti-nuclear activists are petitioning to block the resumption of operations as a majority of the public remains opposed to atomic power.
Taliban Are Said to Target Hazaras to Try to Match ISIS’ Brutality
KABUL, Afghanistan — A wave of kidnappings followed by numerous beheadings of members of Afghanistan’s Hazara ethnic group have spread alarm and anger among a people who have historically been this country’s most persecuted.
The police in Ghazni Province on Sunday confirmed that four Hazara farmers who had been kidnapped by the Taliban had been found beheaded in Ajristan District. Another six Hazaras from Daikundi Province who had been kidnapped by unknown assailants were also found dead, dumped in Ajristan District, less than a week after their families began searching for them, officials confirmed on Monday. Although the police have not yet recovered the bodies, local reports said they, too, had been beheaded.
Beheading is not normally a Taliban tactic, but the insurgents seem to be trying to make an ugly example of the Hazaras, in what is seen by some as a bid for attention.
In Africa's battle against AIDS, a key player hits a crossroads
The Catholic Church administers 25 percent of all AIDS treatment worldwide, especially in hard-to-reach rural areas. But it's facing new obstacles as funding declines and African governments are under pressure to provide services themselves.
KAYESA, MALAWI, AND JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — In the center of Kayesa, a sun-drenched village in central Malawi, stands the empty shell of a public health clinic.
Its red brick walls are gap-toothed and end abruptly at window height, where construction stopped when the village chief ran out of money last year. Goats wander lazily through the half-completed structure, picking at fruit peels on the dirt floor.
But only about 100 yards away, villagers wait patiently in a long line to visit with a doctor at Kayesa’s Catholic church, St. Mary’s. Inside the squat one-room brick building, a team of Slovenian doctors and medical students who visit the village twice a month briskly dole out antibiotics, wound dressings, and advice on HIV treatment. Boxes of their supplies lie sprawled across the altar.
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