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Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:43 PM

Women sort through sheets of coloured polythene to be used for weaving polythene baskets at the community-based organisation Mirror of Hope in the Kibera slum of Nairobi April 23, 2013. The project is supported by the African Jesuit AIDS Network (AJAN) and funded by UNESCO-Kenya to empower women living with HIV/AIDS to sustain themselves and their families. In 2009, there were 1.5 million people living with HIV in Kenya, with the adult prevalence rate having fallen dramatically since the mid-1990s, according to the African Jesuit AIDS Network. Picture taken April 23, 2013. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi (KENYA - Tags: SOCIETY HEALTH BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT)

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:28 PM

Women make different products using beads at the Uzima bead-making workshop in the Kangemi slum of Nairobi April 22, 2013. The Jesuit-run Uzima programme cares for people with HIV, providing support groups, counselling, awareness of prevention of mother-to-child transmission, as well as income generating activities such as bead-making. The bead products are sold as far as Italy and Belgium. In 2009, there were 1.5 million people living with HIV in Kenya, with the adult prevalence rate having fallen dramatically since the mid-1990s, according to the African Jesuit AIDS Network. Picture taken April 22, 2013. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi (KENYA - Tags: SOCIETY HEALTH BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT)

Wed, 1 May 2013 10:31 AM

The advertisement, showing a woman dressed in a full veil with one of her eyes blackened and bruised, aims to encourage women to speak out about abuse and to have a global impact at a time of change in the country

Wed, 1 May 2013 21:49 PM

From a Saudi campaign to stop violence against women to a live debate on humanitarianism in the network age, check out what's in the pipeline for Thomson Reuters Foundation correspondents this week