Pastoralists and climate change
Is pastoralism a lifestyle on the verge of extinction or one well-placed to adapt to changing conditions? As climate change brings more extreme weather, particularly droughts, pastoralists are experimenting with everything from crop farming to livestock insurance to training as solar technicians to try to adapt, while some groups are returning to traditional systems of managing scarce grazing land and water.
Child marriage in Gaza
One morning, Reuters photographer Mohammad Salem received a phone call from a friend asking if he was interested in covering a wedding in the north of the Gaza Strip. The bride Tala Soboh is 14 years old, and her husband Ahmed is 15.
Female drug addicts in Tanzania
Up to 50,000 Tanzanians living in its largest city, Dar es Salaam are drug users, according to the charity Medecins Du Monde.
5 facts: why small-scale fishery matters
500 million people depend on small-scale fishery for their livelihoods. Here are 5 facts about the importance of small-scale fishery
Women and climate change
How are women being affected by climate change - and how are they taking it on?
5 facts you didn't know about UN peacekeepers
There are 97,729 people serving in UN peacekeeping missions worldwide. Nearly 4% of them are women. Here are 5 facts you didn't know about UN peacekeepers
5 facts you didn't know about women and land
Worldwide, over the past 50 years restrictions on women’s property rights have been reduced by half, yet still less than 20% of landholders are women. Here are 5 facts you didn't know about women and land: