INTERVIEW-Domestic violence: Colombian women's worst enemy
Colombia's chief advisor on women's equality speaks to TrustLaw about domestic violence in the country
FACTBOX - South Sudan returnees
Why is the journey home so difficult to make for the half a million South Sudanese stranded in Sudan?
Sudan departure deadline for southerners impossible to meet -IOM
Sudan's government is placing impossible demands on 12,000 South Sudanese stranded in the port of Kosti to move across the border by Saturday or face expulsion-IOM
Honing skills of young people to secure jobs, as 'youth bulge' enters the workforce
Some 1.3 billion young people between the ages of 15 and 24 are transitioning from adolescence into adulthood and entering the global adult workforce over the next decade. This under-25 "youth bulge" ? up to 60 percent of the population in some developing countries ? represents the largest cohort of job seekers ever.
Strengthening livelihoods to combat poverty and improve lives
As a child-centred organisation, Plan International focuses on improving the lives of deprived children, and with a holistic outlook, Plan targets the roots of the problem, which means enabling adults and communities to have stable livelihoods to support strong, healthy children and families.
Kenya's farmers, brewers raise a toast to sorghum
As barley production falls, a switch to sorghum is helping farmers cope with changing weather patterns and beer makers keep up production
"The Marriage Breakers of Bangladesh"
Worldwide, one girl is married off every three-and-a-half seconds, according to Plan UK's 2011 "Breaking Vows" report into early and forced marriage.
Escape from Camp 14: life inside North Korea's brutal labour camps
''The only thing that sustains the regime is fear'' - Shin Dong-hyuk