"Water wives" of Maharashtra, India
“Water wives” allows women, often widows or single mothers, to regain respect in conservative rural India by carrying water to their household
Indian boat clinics save lives on Assam's remote river islands
Doctors in northeast India say floating clinics are cutting maternal mortality rates on the region's islands
War widows of the Central African Republic
Three years of conflict in Central African Republic have taken a huge toll on the country's women.
Typhoon Haiyan survivors in the Philippines
Temporary aid for Haiyan survivors has helped ease long-standing problems of hunger, but reducing inequalities will need long-term strategies from the government
Around the world in 45 toilets
Some 2.4 billion people around the world don't have access to decent sanitation and more than a billion are forced to defecate in the open, raising the risk of disease, according to the United Nations. To mark World Toilet Day on Nov. 19, Reuters photographers around the globe photographed toilets in their cities, towns and villages.
"In Kony’s Shadow" – stories of LRA child soldier survivors
To mark International Day against the Use of Child Soldiers, Christian Aid has launched In Kony’s Shadow, an online multimedia exhibition that explores the stories of those who survived the terror of the 19-year Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) insurgency in northern Uganda