India's top judge urged to quit for suggesting rape defendant marry victim
Chief justice’s remark could encourage lower courts to consider marriage offers floated by defence lawyers in a bid for leniency in rape cases, campaigners warn
'One voice': Teen activist urges Zimbabwe's youth to join climate fight
Nkosilathi Nyathi has documented environmental problems in his area, introduced renewable energy to his schools and is now calling on fellow youth to push for climate action
Africa urged to embrace wind power to create jobs and go green
Africa has only tapped into 0.01% of its wind power potential, which could smooth the transition away from climate-warming fossil fuels
Worried about climate change? There's a book for that
As the warming world faces raging forest fires, rising seas and increasingly erratic weather, there has been a boom in books about climate change
Global firms lag on sex harassment, women-friendly policy
Most big firms are failing to ban sex harassment at work or enact policies that let mothers work flexibly
Ethiopia's migrants turn to sex work as pandemic sends them home
Thousands of female migrants returned to Ethiopia from the Gulf last year and some are risking violence and trafficking as sex workers
Indonesia curbs deforestation rate in 2020: environment ministry
Jakarta says it reduced the rate of deforestation by 75% last year by controlling forest fires and limiting land clearing - but activists point to the pandemic and wet weather instead
China's ICBC unit sets guidelines to prevent office sexual harassment
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China sets guidelines to prevent office sexual harassment by suggesting avoiding physical contact or one-on-one interactions with colleagues of the opposite gender
U.N. chief urges wealthy nations to phase out coal use by 2030
Ending use of the dirtiest, most polluting and increasingly costly fossil fuel for electricity generation would give efforts to curb climate change 'a fighting chance', says Guterres
How private equity squeezes cash from the dying US coal industry
Private equity firms are cashing in on demand for fossil fuels to meet surges in energy demand