Yemen healthcare services on brink of collapse, WHO says
Major hospitals will soon be unable to perform operations and provide intensive care to patients due to lack of medicines and fuel
Indian minister says 2,000 girls "killed" every day
Despite laws that ban parents having tests to determine the gender of unborn children, sex selective abortions remain common in parts of India
Healthy profit for Kenyan women selling aloe to UK cosmetics firm
Exporting aloe, which thrives in dry conditions, enables former goat-herders to send their daughters to school
Meryl Streep funds initiative to help women screenwriters
Only 17 percent of off-screen workers in the film industry were women in 2014, according to one study.
FEATURE-Colombian acid survivor seeks tougher justice for 'an identity erased'
Colombia reported one of the highest rates of acid attacks against women per capita in the world in 2012
Substandard drugs, not fakes, undermine fight against malaria
Researchers found substandard drugs in 12 percent of samples in Tanzania and in 31 percent in Cambodia
FEATURE-Women take on floods and hunger in rural Pakistan
Women in Punjab are planting trees and vegetable gardens, urging local government to give them land
Honduras most dangerous country for environmental activists - report
Killings of environmental activists globally reached an average of more than two per week in 2014, up 20 percent from 2013
Football idols Zidane and Ronaldo team up in UN Ebola fundraiser
"We are delighted to play a part in helping people, communities and countries get back on their feet after the damage that Ebola has caused" - Ronaldo
Trillions of dollars needed for new bid to end poverty by 2030
"Much more is needed," said U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon