Climate change investment falls for second year in 2013
The world is lagging further and further behind its low-carbon investment goals, warns climate finance report
Mobile phones 'game changers' in securing children's rights - UNICEF
Uganda is a leader in using mobile phones to check medicine stocks and register births, key for children
Half Yemen's children malnourished as hunger worsens strife
Yemen's lack of water and falling oil revenue are hitting food output and fuelling sectarian violence
Rights groups urge Mauritania to free anti-slavery protesters
Four percent of Mauritanians are hereditary slaves, putting the country top of the slavery index
Doctor, dead girl's father acquitted in Egypt's first FGM trial
Egypt banned FGM in 2008, but it is still widely practised and over 90% of women have undergone it
Rainforest summit more 'hot air' than progress, environmentalists say
Pledges made to slow deforestation in Asia Pacific are insufficient and hard to enforce, community groups say
Aid workers in conflict zones no longer immune, now targeted
474 aid workers were killed, kidnapped or seriously wounded in 2013, compared to 143 in 2003
Storytelling trumps smartphones in Ebola crisis, experts say
Power systems fail, infrastructures collapse, poor people have few phones, and official messages sometimes treated with suspicion
FEATURE-Transgender activists seek laws, acceptance, to combat violence
Hundreds of transgender people are killed every year and many live in constant fear of abuse, assault and alienation
Businesses are key to ending slavery and its $150 billion profit - campaigners
Businesses, with their vast purchasing power, can do much to end slavery by monitoring their supply chains