Technology use by sex traffickers fuels debate between privacy and security
Is advanced technology helping victims of trafficking or becoming a tool to find and exploit them?
Migrant domestic workers in Lebanon deported for having children - rights group
Dozens of migrant domestic workers who have given birth in Lebanon are being detained, deported and denied residency renewals, a rights group says.
Obesity "frightening" in Latin America, driving disease and draining economies- U.N.
While the number of hungry people in Latin America and the Caribbean has halved in the last 25 years, the region is now struggling with an obesity epidemic.
INTERVIEW-Put people over profit to stop fashion slavery, says campaigner
Fashion firms are accused of turning a blind eye to abuses including child labour, dangerous working conditions and trade union bans.
FACTBOX-Five myths about mosquitoes and malaria
Malaria still kills more than 400,000 people a year despite significant recent success in bringing down the death toll.
Green the red: Indian city breaks taboos for "sustainable menstruation"
A southern Indian city is breaking the silence around periods as it encourages a switch to eco-friendly sanitary products.
Mexico becomes first in Americas to wipe out tropical eye disease
Trachoma, which can cause irreversible blindness, is more common in places with poor sanitation and overcrowding.
Measles surges among children in famine-threatened Somalia
"We know only too well from the 2011 famine that measles, combined with malnutrition and displacement, is an especially lethal combination for children"
Climate-stressed Mongolia urged to put yaks before mines
Modernising Mongolia's livestock industry offers a more sustainable economic future than mining, says Mercy Corps
Tanzanian polygamist's puzzle: how to stop six wives warring over 500 acres?
Magoso's wives each have a title deed showing they co-own their land with him - something highly unusual in Tanzania.