Virgins recruited as sex slaves for Colombian drug lords - reports
A woman was recently arrested for allegedly pimping young girls as young as 11, preying on poor and vulnerable teenagers at the school gates in Colombia's Uraba region
U.S. top court throws out Obamacare contraception ruling
Obama's healthcare law requires employers to provide health insurance policies that cover preventive services for women including contraception
Dirty sterilisations putting women at risk in east India: study
India, the world's top steriliser of women, came under global scrutiny last November when 15 women died and scores of others were hospitalised after sterilisation surgery Chhattisgarh state
Jobs, better wages, less unpaid work key to making women's rights a reality: UN
Women earn on average 24 percent less than men and only half of women of working age are in the global labour force
Iran bans magazine for encouraging cohabitation over wedlock - report
Under Iran's sharia-based laws, extramarital sex is punishable by flogging, and adultery can carry a sentence of death by stoning
Chinese woman activist says interrogated a week after release
Five activists were detained having planned to protest against sexual harassment on public transport
New video urges football fans to tackle domestic violence
Can football help to clamp down on domestic violence in the UK?
Tanzania cracks down on "sextortion" by public officials
Up to 89 percent of women in the public sector have experienced some form of sexual harassment, rights group says
EU approves first new genetically modified crops since 2013
Widely grown in the Americas and Asia, GM crops have divided opinion in Europe