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The election of the nationalist Sweden Democrats poses a threat to environmental protection and could spur climate change.

Far-right Sweden Democrats’ victory is a loss for the climate: Abby Klinkenberg

What conditions are driving millions of people in India to turn towards substance abuse?

What is behind the rise in India's youth's drug abuse?

After sever neglect and human rights infringements, the Yanomami people of Brazil will finally receive equitable treatment.

Brazil’s mission to save the Yanomami people: Ellen Nemitz

Black communities in a majority-white Poland seek equal legal protection against racism and discrimination.

Afro-Polish communities stand up against racism: Katarzyna Rybarczyk

India's Siddi people, of African descent, challenge racism and discrimination while maintaining their heritage.

Recognising the Siddi people of India: Bindu Gopal Rao

From film, to music, to literature and fashion, Black and African culture have largely informed the global cultural environment.

Celebrating Africa’s growing contribution to global culture: Bob Koigi

Male politicians and sports officials abuse their power to commit sexual abuse on India's athletes.

Female athletes in India face widespread sexual abuse: Hanan Zaffar

While making strides in raising awareness for water conservation, Latin America has yet to improve on water conservation efforts.

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The need to protect buffer areas that border national parks and wildlife sanctuaries can be achieved through community-led conservation.

Beyond forests: protecting India's buffer zones - Bindu Gopal Rao

اس کے خلاف قوانین کے باوجود، تھائی لینڈ میں جنسی اسمگلنگ کا مسئلہ بڑھتا جا رہا ہے، عدم مساوات غریب خاندانوں کو اپنے بچوں کو جسم فروشی پر مجبور کر رہی ہے۔ https://www.fairplanet.org/editors-pick/despite-prohibition-child-prostitution-thrives-in-thailand/

ممانعت کے باوجود تھائی لینڈ میں بچوں کی جسم فروشی پروان چڑھ رہی ہے - حنان ظفر

The lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus) is one of the most threatened monkeys in the Western Ghats of South India.
https://www.fairplanet.org/editors-pick/saving-indias-lion-tailed-macaque/

Saving India's lion-tailed macaque

Mradi wa "Maisha Yenye Heshima" wa Misri unaolenga maendeleo duni ya vijijini na uwekezaji wa dola bilioni 16 unatumia mkabala wa kiujumla. https://www.fairplanet.org/?post_type=editors_picks&p=57635&preview=true

Misri ni mfano kwa mataifa yenye mapungufu katika maendeleo ya vijijini na mijini  - Bob Koigi

India grapples with a pressing waste crisis, urging solutions through decentralised models, technology integration, and heightened public awareness.
https://www.fairplanet.org/?post_type=editors_picks&p=57775&preview=true

What do we do with India's mounting waste problem? - Bindu Gopal Rao

33 साल बाद, कश्मीर में कुनान पोशपोरा सामूहिक बलात्कार के बचे लोगों को अभी भी न्याय नहीं मिल पाया है।
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कश्मीर की बलात्कार पीड़िताओं के लिए न्याय अभी भी मायावी है - हनान ज़फ़र

Myanmar's rare earth boom amid conflict prompts concerns over environment, rights, and ethical supply chains.
https://www.fairplanet.org/editors-pick/myanmar-illicit-rare-earth-mining-amid-insurgency/

Myanmar’s illicit rare earth industry grows despite insurgency

Industrialisation in Rakhine State finances the junta and threatens the marine environment and local livelihoods.
https://www.fairplanet.org/editors-pick/oil-conflict-and-local-disempowermentin-myanmars-rakhine-state/

Oil, Conflict, and local disempowerment in Myanmar's Rakhine State - Lital Khaikin

Asian chocolatiers are fighting soaring cocoa prices with local and artisanal products.
https://www.fairplanet.org/editors-pick/malaysias-sustainable-chocolate-solution/

Malaysia's sustainable chocolate solution - Angeline Foo

Shinikizo la kimataifa lazima lizuie hatua ya hivi majuzi ya bunge la Gambia kuanzisha upya ukeketaji.
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Ulimwengu hauwezi kuruhusu Gambia kubatilisha marufuku yake ya ukeketaji - Bob Koigi

Bengaluru, the Silicon City and IT Capital of India is in the grip of a severe water crisis exacerbated by the looming threat of drought.
https://www.fairplanet.org/?post_type=editors_picks&p=58387&preview=true

Bengaluru's government acts to improve water woes- Bindu Gopal Rao

Katika moja ya chaguzi za kihistoria nchini Senegal, Bassirou Diomaye Faye mwenye umri wa miaka 44 aliapishwa kuwa mkuu wa nchi mwenye umri mdogo zaidi barani Afrika.

https://www.fairplanet.org/editors-pick/senegal-africas-beacon-of-democracy

Senegal ndio kinara wa demokrasia barani Afrika - Bob Koigi

Mafanikio ya nchi za Kiafrika katika kupata habari kupitia mtandao yanakandamizwa na serikali zao, lakini ubunifu unaoongozwa na vijana unapigana.
https://www.fairplanet.org/editors-pick/africas-internet-boom-empowers-youth-and-makes-governments-nervous/

Kushamiri kwa mtandao barani Afrika kunafanya serikali kuwa na wasiwasi - Bob Koigi

भाजपा का कहना है कि "जीतने की संभावना" के कारण मुसलमानों को उसके उम्मीदवारों की सूची से बाहर रखा गया है। https://www.fairplanet.org/editors-pick/why-are-muslims-underrepresented-in-indian-politics/

भारतीय राजनीति में मुसलमानों का प्रतिनिधित्व कम क्यों है? - Hanan Zaffar

India’s apex Supreme Court has ruled that people have a right to be free from the adverse effects of climate change within the ambit of fundamental rights.
https://www.fairplanet.org/?post_type=editors_picks&p=58474&preview=true

The case for climate litigation in India - Bindu Gopal Rao

Wakati ulimwengu ukiadhimisha Siku ya Dunia mwezi huu, zana zilizotengenezwa na Waafrika kukabiliana na uchafuzi wa hewa huleta matumaini kwa siku zijazo safi.
https://www.fairplanet.org/?post_type=editors_picks&p=58495&preview=true

Ubunifu wa Uganda wa kukabiliana na uchafuzi wa hewa - Bob Koigi

जैसे-जैसे भारत अपने 2030 स्वच्छ ऊर्जा लक्ष्यों की ओर बढ़ रहा है, सौर क्षेत्र अपने प्रमुख राज्यों से 600 किलोटन सौर कचरे के प्रबंधन से जूझ रहा है।

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हरित लक्ष्य, धूसर परिणाम: भारत की सौर अपशिष्ट समस्या - Hanan Zaffar

Wabunifu wa Kiafrika wanapambana na upotevu wa mitindo, wakikumbatia mazoea endelevu huku tasnia ya kimataifa ikiharibu mazingira.
https://www.fairplanet.org/editors-pick/africa-pivots-to-sustainable-fashion/

Afrika inazingatia mtindo endelevu - Bob Koigi

If France, however, decided to invite fascism back into power, then the entire European project may have been under threat. The same is  true for Germany.

Gurmeet Singh: This is no alternative for Deutschland

Just as the Portuguese are recovering from last June’s shock, tragedy repeats itself only four months after the deadliest wildfires in the country’s history

Maria Morais: Portugal’s neglected interior up in flames (again)

The survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire are worried that government will fail to aid them in the most desperate of incidents.

Shira Jeczmien: Searching for humanity as Grenfell survivors fight for their rights

The new U.S. war strategy for Afghanistan follows a dreadful path of death and destruction by all warring sides in the country.

Shadi Khan: On the dreadful path of death and destruction

“If Caruana Galizia’s death is a reminder of the risks such reporters take, her life is a reminder of the value of their work.”

Shira Jecziem: We need journalism that is fearless, now more than ever

Shira Jeczmien: International Day To End Impunity For Crimes Against Journalists

China aims to eradicate extreme poverty by 2020. Therefore, China's moves can only be a good thing - to raise the living standard, and therefore life chances of its citizens.

Gurmeet Singh: Chinese poverty coming to an end

Old boundaries of clear segregation may have collapsed, but the policing of individuals has not.

Gurmeet Singh, Berlin: When there's something strange in your neighbourhood, who you gonna call?

Farkhunda Malikzada, a young Afghan woman was stoned to death in the capital Kabul not long time ago, during winter of 2015, in what was later pronounced to be the turning point for the oppressed females in the war-ravaged country.

Unfortunately, that horrific incident - with all its grimness and followed-up condemnation and promises to make life better for Afghan women - hasn’t changed much. The war-ravaged country has seen multiple incidents of the identical nature in its remote and quite corners where the nascent media of the land has no or little coverage.

Shadi Khan: Persecution of women in the name of God

Twitter controversies aren't real controversies. A famous person using a clumsy or politically incorrect choice of words to express themselves is bad, but it's not say, foreign interference in elections. Nevertheless, our media like to focus on Social Media controversies for a number of reasons: the people at the centre of them are often well-known, the backlash is normally quite severe from other twitter users, and if there's enough outrage, the person at the centre of it will be forced to apologise, or could even lose their job. It's all very dependent on the situation, and often never really particularly interesting.

Gurmeet Singh: Nazis Raus - Ja, bitte

The Programme for International Student Assessment, PISA sparked polemics again after the 2018 results were published earlier this week.

Katarina Panic: Does PISA  score say it is the end of the thinking capacity?

What can take Afghanistan out of this vicious quagmire of 40-year-old bloodshed?

Shadi Khan: Afghans need to bravely fight the dependency syndrome

Thousands of academicians, students, teachers, performers, doctors, and even shopkeepers voiced their concerns this week over the destiny of seven activists sentenced to the lengthy prison terms in the central Russia's city of Penza.

Igor Serebryany: Eighteen years: Russian court gives record-long terms for minor offences

Possession of a farm to mine cryptocurrencies as well as conducting operations with bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies could result in a prison term if a proposal drafted by the Russian Finance ministry becomes a law.

Igor Serebryany: Russian bitcoin miners could face seven years in jail

All public schools in Ukraine wiped out the Russian language from their programs this school year to implement the law passed by the country's parliament, Supreme Rada, three years ago.

Igor Serebryany: Schools in Ukraine scrap Russian language from their curricula

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