Indian guru arrested for raping minor, pleads innocent - report
Asaram Bapu, 72 – who has millions of followers in India and overseas – was charged on August 21 with the rape and sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl in the western city of Jodhpur, but he evaded arrest for several days citing ill health and other reasons
Activists appeal on Twitter for drugs to treat Syria’s gas attack victims
English and Arabic speakers are using Twitter and Facebook to call for donations to buy the drug atropine, used to treat neurotoxic symptoms
Drones poised to be new climate surveillance workhorses
Professional and cut-rate “eco-drones” could monitor climate risks, cut patrolling costs, improve science and collect a range of never-before-obtainable environmental data, users say
Humanitarian aid to CAR stalls as Cameroon’s truckers strike
Around 3,000 cartons of ready-to-use therapeutic food, 24 metric tonnes of aluminium sulphite for water treatment, hygiene kits and cold storage for vaccines, all destined for CAR, are stuck in Cameroon
South Africa plans to introduce hate crime legislation
Proposed legislation will address "corrective rape" against lesbians and verbal attacks on foreigners and LGBT people, local media reports
Pope Francis asks Vatican scholars to study human trafficking
Physicians, scientists, lawyers, economists, researchers and representatives of two pontifical academies and a medical association will gather in Rome in November for a workshop to look at ways to combat forced labour and people trafficking
Threats to UK women linked to gangs still overlooked - expert
Thousands of young women are at risk of violence, sexual exploitation and of being coerced into offending, according to Carlene Firmin of the Office of the Children’s Commissioner
Haitian migrants crowd into Brazil shelter as trafficking worsens
Human rights watchdog Conectas says conditions in a Brazilian shelter for Haitian migrants who don't have legal papers are “inhuman”
Displaced women, children at high risk of rape in Somali camps - rights group
Fear of being stigmatised and a lack of confidence in the will or ability of the authorities to investigate cases of sexual violence stop most of the victims – some as young as 13 – from reporting abuses to the police, says Amnesty International