Digital world seen moving into 'authoritarian space' [[link removed]]

Governments from China to the United States are increasingly monitoring or restricting online spaces, tech experts told the Trust Conference

Local volunteers to the rescue as fiercer floods ravage northeast India [[link removed]]

With homemade rafts and plastic-bottle life jackets, teams of young villagers save stranded locals when the Brahmaputra River bursts its banks

Nature-pact goal to protect 30% of land and ocean hangs in balance [[link removed]]

Some biodiversity-rich nations are reluctant to endorse the 30x30 goal - a central pillar of a draft global agreement to be finalised next May - due to challenges such as lack of funding

'Killer business case' for diversity in newsrooms [[link removed]]

Diversity is necessary for media companies’ business, from building credibility to finding stories, top editors said on Thursday.

ANALYSIS - IOC's new transgender and intersex guidelines divide sport [[link removed]]

LGBT+ and human rights advocates welcomed dropping advice on testosterone levels, but some scientists said the Olympic guidance was 'unreasonable'.

During COP26, Facebook served ads with climate falsehoods, skepticism [[link removed]]

Facebook does not have a specific policy on climate misinformation in ads or unpaid posts, but generally does not remove misinformation in posts unless it determines they pose imminent real-world harm

INTERVIEW-New Delhi to consider curbing private vehicles to fight dangerous smog [[link removed]]

More children are in hospital with breathing problems, while the government has shut five power stations and extended school closures to try to contain the smog crisis

Brazil's Amazon deforestation surges to 15-year high, undercutting government pledge [[link removed]]

At COP26 climate talks, Brazil brought forward a pledge to end illegal deforestation by two years to 2028, a target that would require aggressive annual reductions in destruction

Transgender teen bids for Medicaid coverage of top surgery [[link removed]]

Arizona currently excludes “gender-reassignment surgeries” from Medicaid coverage, but now Transgender teen John Doe wants “top surgery,” a double mastectomy, to be covered.

India's Modi backs down on farm reforms in surprise victory for protesters [[link removed]]

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he would repeal three agriculture laws that farmers have been protesting against for more than a year

Opinion OPINION: My sister was murdered as a child bride in the UK. This new law can save other girls’ lives. [[link removed]]

I know exactly what it feels like to be a child bride, right here in Britain. I was 16 when my whole life was hijacked.

OPINION: It’s time to undo the covid disruption to girls’ rights in India [[link removed]]

The pandemic has disrupted efforts to end child marriage and caused widespread damage to the financial prospects of girls

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