Kaka, Cody Simpson lend Twitter feeds to migrants and aid workers for UN campaign
Global campaign focuses on people struggling in conflict zones or areas hit by natural disasters
Latin American govts fail to tackle booming urban slums - report
113 million people across the continent - nearly one in five people - live in slums, fuelling inequality and social exclusion
FEATURE-Poverty drives Myanmar girls into underage sex work
Wut Yee was 14 her virginity was sold to a businessman for $3,000
Roadside bombs, insecurity cuts off neediest in Mali - aid groups
UN estimates that 3.1 million people in Mali face serious hunger, of whom 410,000 need immediate assistance
Nearly 1 million people face food emergency in drought-hit Guatemala - U.N.
Families in mostly poor, indigenous communities in rural areas are now eating only one or two meals a day
Indonesian migrants' remittances fail to develop economy at home-study
"Remittances impact only the migrant and her family, and impacts do not alleviate the need for future generations to migrate"
Goats, chickens, books can prevent African child marriage - research
More than 14 million girls get married before the age of 18; in sub-Saharan Africa more than a tenth of girls are married by 15
U.S. military's transgender care costs "negligible", study says
Transgender people are twice as common in the military as general population
Sri Lanka's torture of Tamils persists despite war's end - charity
Freedom from Torture report based on medical evidence relating to 148 Sri Lankans tortured between 2009 and 2013
Dengue rife, malaria spreading in filthy streets of Yemen - charity
Rubbish piling up on the streets of Yemeni towns is helping the spread of dengue fever and malaria