Chile's Bachelet takes on conservatives with plan to ease abortion ban
Draft bill would permit abortion when a mother's life is at risk, a fetus will not survive the pregnancy, or in the case of rape
EXCLUSIVE-UN support for Congo campaign against Rwanda rebels in doubt over abuses
Congo has named a general accused of rights abuses to head offensive planned with UN peacekeeping mission
Thai vigilantes take up fight against human trafficking
Frustrated by Thailand's lacklustre response to human trafficking, volunteers patrol one of Asia's busiest smuggling routes
Former supermodel Waris Dirie says FGM can end in her lifetime
Dirie brands female genital mutilation "a cruel and perfidious war on little girls".
Will El Salvador free 16 women jailed for at least 30 years for abortion?
Flimsy medical evidence, flawed trials put women behind bars for at least 30 years, lawyer seeking pardons says
Doctor in first UK FGM trial says practice is abhorrent
Doctor says he had no FGM training and had never seen a women with FGM before delivering the baby