Millions of Bangladesh garment workers at risk, despite safety efforts - report
Few Bangladesh factories making garments for export are protected by new industry safety programmes
Paris deal boosts plan for New York climate change museum
Planners hope museum can open in 2020, saying new climate agreement shows it will be wanted and needed
Poor U.S. renters need legal support to stop evictions and keep homes - study
Lack of affordable housing afflicts cities across the United States, exacerbating a cycle of poverty
US scores low grade in index of rich nations helping poor led by Denmark
Commitment to Development Index measures how policies of rich countries help or hurt the world's poorest
Fight against modern slavery needs more coordination, enforcement - reports
Nations must boost prosecution at domestic and international level to reinforce prohibition against forced labor, sex trafficking and other forms of slavery
Religious sisters to expand fight against slavery to 140 nations
Network of 1,100 sisters operates in 80 countries but demand for efforts to fight trafficking has risen globally
Truckers join drive on U.S. highways to tackle sex trafficking
There are 3 million truckers on the road every day and in strategic places - rest areas, motels, gas stations, loading docks
British couple convicted of keeping immigrant as slave for 24 years
The victim was forced to cook, clean, garden and care for the couple's children without any pay for up to 17 hours a day
Millions more using contraception, especially in South Asia, Africa-report
Ten nations home to half the women of reproductive age in the focus countries did not show marked advances
U.N. report shows women inching slowly, unevenly toward equality
Among the findings, women's life expectancy has risen globally to 72 from 64