Mumbai gang rape shows India limps on women's safety
Eight months on since the high-profile gang rape and murder of a student on a Delhi bus, reports have emerged that a similar crime has been committed against a photo journalist in an abandoned mill in the financial hub
Longest-serving soap actor pleads not guilty to sex charges
William Roache, 81, plays Ken Barlow in long-running British soap "Coronation Street"
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
Nepal: Opportunity As The Great Equalizer
"I am usually dependent on my husband's income to run the household, but this project has helped me get some work experience and earn some money. We have proven that even women can work and contribute to the community's development, if given the opportunity."
Women demonstrate in front of a courthouse in Ankara
Women who call themselves ''victims of the post-modern coup'' demonstrate in front of a courthouse in Ankara September 2, 2013. The trial of more than 100 senior Turkish army officers including General Ismail Hakki Karadayi, the former chief of general staff , for their alleged role in toppling Turkey's first Islamist-led government 16 years ago began in Ankara on Monday. The investigation into former prime minister Necmettin Erbakan's 1997 ouster is the latest in a series of judicial cases targeting the once all-powerful Turkish military, whose influence has been curbed sharply in the last decade. The placards read: ''We want all of our rights back. Unjust treatment for 16 years worth a thousand years'' (L) and ''We want justice. Trial will be exemplary to all support coups.'' REUTERS/Umit Bektas (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST MILITARY)
Women demonstrate in front of a courthouse in Ankara
Women who call themselves ''victims of the post-modern coup'' demonstrate in front of a courthouse in Ankara September 2, 2013. The trial of more than 100 senior Turkish army officers including General Ismail Hakki Karadayi, the former chief of general staff , for their alleged role in toppling Turkey's first Islamist-led government 16 years ago began in Ankara on Monday. The investigation into former prime minister Necmettin Erbakan's 1997 ouster is the latest in a series of judicial cases targeting the once all-powerful Turkish military, whose influence has been curbed sharply in the last decade. The placards read: ''We want all of our rights back. Unjust treatment for 16 years worth a thousand years.'' REUTERS/Umit Bektas (TURKEY - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW MILITARY POLITICS)
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
Complaints by Transgender Detainees Quantify Abuse
Mistreatment of transgender detainees described in government documents match the anecdotal accounts in dozens of interviews. One lawyer says she has never met a transgender detainee who has not been subject to some sort of harassment. The second of four stories.
Bigger and healthier: European men grow 11cm in a century
HEALTH-EUROPE/HEIGHT:Bigger and healthier: European men grow 11cm in a century
Life expectancy gap growing between rich/poor world women - WHO
Gap could worsen without better detection and treatment of cardiovascular disease and cancers