Pakistan launches Pink Bus Service for women - report
Bus company launches Pakistan's first ever female-only bus service to help women feel safer and curb incidents of sexual abuse
IPI: SEEMO Issues 2011 Press Freedom Overview
The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a subsidiary of the International Press Institute (IPI), in 2011 registered 684 press freedom violations in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Turkey and Ukraine.
Rape, homelessness, cholera hound Haiti 2 yrs after quake -IOM
Conditions "horrendous" and rape "a big, big problem" in Haiti camps -IOM
Land needed for Mindanao's displaced as disease risks mount -UN
Typhoon Washi killed more than 1,200 people in mid-December and displaced hundreds of thousands
Cameroon farmers turn dung into power
Bio-gas effort is improving incomes as well as combating climate change, government says
Vietnamese journalist who covered corruption detained for "giving bribes"? report
Nguyen Van Khuong, a reporter with the Vietnamese-language Tuoi Tre (Youth) daily newspaper published a series of articles last year on police corruption
India launches anti-trafficking unit to curb prostitution - report
South Asia is the second largest venue for human trafficking in the world, after East Asia, according to the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC)