The manual waste collector association launches its first political manifesto. Traditionally, sewer cleaning has been reserved to Dalits. In the past ten years, at least 1,800 workers have drowned in excrement.
Those who call suicide lines are mostly in their thirties and forties. In 2018, 56 per cent of users were women, 43 per cent men. Although the overall number of suicides is down, child suicides are up. Girls and young women up to 19 show a "worrying tendency" towards taking their own lives.
The work of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, which held its tenth ordinary plenary assembly in Rome from 4 to 7 April, continues with its program of learning, listening, assistance and protection of the most vulnerable.
Cities are losing residents at a time when they suffer from a large number of vacant residential units and labour shortages. Getting a residency permit (hukou) is now easier. Several cities will allow migrants to settle if they are graduates or university students. By 2020, China plans to grant new residency permits to 100 million people.
Hundreds of people protest the murder of 26-year-old Jennyfar Maria Gomes. The autopsy confirms that her husband stabbed her eight times. In the past seven years, 50,000 divorce applications were filed in Dhaka, one per hour.
Protests in Voronezh, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Lipetsk against the introduction of a personalized PIN. The total control of the individual is feared: an "electronic lager". Patriarch Kirill asks to respect those who reject electronic documents.