Biden presidency sets stage for wider global advances on climate policy [[link removed]]

Once U.S. President-elect Joe Biden takes office - and as more countries struggle with climate impacts - policies that tackle global warming are expected to begin

Microsoft, Cigna form coalition for digital records of COVID-19 vaccination [[link removed]]

Microsoft, Oracle, Cigna Corp and Mayo Clinic are pushing for digital records of people who get vaccinated against coronavirus

LGBT+ Ugandans find camaraderie, hope and despair on election day [[link removed]]

Gay voters in Uganda are anxious after President Yoweri Museveni called homosexuals a "deviation"

Philippines' Duterte says presidency no job for a woman [[link removed]]

Rodrigo Duterte is notorious for comments often deemed sexist but his office typically calls his remarks harmless jokes

Kashmir forest dwellers look to long-delayed law to stop evictions [[link removed]]

Land rights activists have been pushing for the Forest Rights Act for 14 years, but worry it is being implemented too quickly

New York attorney general sues NYPD for excessive force against protesters [[link removed]]

The lawsuit alleges the police repeatedly and without justification used physical force against racial justice protesters, many of whom were never charged with a crime

Scientists warn climate change is harming children's diets [[link removed]]

Rising temperatures and lower rainfalls could undo decades of work reducing malnutrition

Texas woman charged with taking girl abroad for FGM in landmark U.S. case [[link removed]]

Indictment comes a week after Trump signed a law toughening the country’s ban on the ancient practice

'Ask for ANI': new high-street code for UK abuse victims [[link removed]]

British pharmacies throw lifeline to domestic abuse victims in third lockdown with launch of codeword initiative

No jab, no job? UK plumbing firm exploring vaccine rules for staff [[link removed]]

Pimlico Plumbers has been talking to its lawyers about making the vaccine mandatory for new hires

Bangladeshi vows to fight bar on women conducting weddings [[link removed]]

It is legal for a woman to become a marriage registrar - but there are no women doing the job in Bangladesh

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