Women's cycling team pushes past roadblocks in Afghanistan
Afghanistan's female athletes face family pressure and patchy public support
Online domestic abuse becomes growing threat for women
But experts say technology can also be part of the solution to online gender-based violence
Fight to end child marriage must be scaled up - experts
Step up efforts or slip on progress, says UNICEF deputy chief
Western girls holiday in Kenya to undergo FGM in secret
Somali families living in Britain and the US are bringing their daughters to Kenya to secretly undergo female genital mutiliation
UK shoppers would switch brands, pay more to avoid use of slaves - poll
Two-thirds of consumers would stop buying a product if they learned that its manufacture involved exploiting workers
Brazil passes femicide law to tackle rise in gender killings
Gender killings have been rising in Brazil, and femicide is a problem throughout Latin America
Uber pledges to enlist 1 million female drivers by 2020
Female passengers will not yet have the ability to request female drivers
Second Pakistan province cracks down on child marriage
Clerics in Pakistan's most populous province of Punjab will be punished if they allow underage marriages along with the parents
Many young Indian women underweight, their babies too - research
Over 40 percent of young Indian women are underweight - as are their babies - because of social pressures
Child and maternal deaths tumble, E.Africa leads the way - U.N.
A U.N. initiative has saved the lives of 2.4 million women and children since 2010, but there is much more to do