From Malaysia to Mauritius, UK aid funds six global anti-slavery projects
Funding will also be used to run workshops on modern slavery in South Africa, improve support for survivors in India, and develop an online data hub to boost anti-slavery policies
Ugandan mum of multiple quadruplets struggles to provide for 38 kids
"I have not had joy, I think, since I was born"
Australian cafe that charged 'man tax' to close
The cafe charged men an 18 percent premium to reflect the gender pay gap
Britain must step in over N. Ireland abortion ban, say MPs
Pressure has been mounting on Northern Ireland to relax its restrictive abortion rules since voters in the neighbouring Irish republic backed the removal of a ban last year
Right-wing politics, social media fuel anti-woman violence - EU commissioner
One in three women in the European Union has experienced physical or sexual violence in the previous five years
Anti-abortion billboards fuel stigma in Kenya, say women's rights groups
Abortion is not permitted under Kenya's constitution unless a woman's life or health is in danger and emergency treatment is required
India gang-rape victim's record compensation could help others, say activists
Bilkis Bano was three months pregnant when she was gang raped and her three-year-old daughter was murdered during violence that swept western state of Gujarat in 2002
UK to provide all female prisoners with free sanitary products
Free sanitary products will also be given to transgender male prisoners to help ensure menstruating detainees are "treated with dignity"
Pull 'inhuman' women monitoring app, runaway Saudi sisters tell tech giants
Two runaway Saudi sisters urged Apple and Google to pull an app allowing men to monitor and control female relatives' travel
Japanese to compensate victims of forced sterilisation
An estimated 25,000 people were sterilised under Japan's "Eugenics Protection Law" which was only revoked in 1996.