Winners of 2017 Kurt Schork Memorial Awards Announced
The winners of an award to honour some of the most courageous yet least recognised journalists around the world were announced this week, alongside an inaugural award for news fixers.
Not a fair price for coffee farmers in Ethiopia
The benefits of Fair Trade for Ethiopia's small coffee farmers haven’t been as significant as may be widely perceived
Women in developed countries more educated than men, but still earn less - OECD
If there was an equal number of female and male entrepreneurs, global GDP could rise by 2 percent, equivalent to about $1.5 trillion
Daughters of violence: South Sudanese refugee rape victims in Uganda
Girls flee sexual violence in South Sudan only to be raped again in refugee camp
Austria puts the squeeze on refugees with benefit cuts
Attitudes towards immigrants have hardened due to concerns about security and the economy
FEATURE-Social businesses bring Thai hill products to IKEA, Bangkok supermarkets
Home furnishings giant IKEA sources products from one of Thailand's oldest social enterprises, which employs hill tribe communities, many of whom are stateless
Vanuatu in final evacuation of island threatened by volcano
Officials may struggle to convince everyone to leave amid fears of losing vulnerable livestock and crops
How solar energy saved a Puerto Rican farm from Hurricane Maria
The U.S. territory is in a near blackout, its electricity grid shredded by the storm
China diverts 10 billion cubic metres of water to arid north in massive project
Water supplies in north have been challenged by droughts, a surging population, agriculture, and manufacturing growth