Rise in baby trafficking in India cuts adoption numbers and fuels trade
Traffickers often tryto get hold of babies before parents - often unwed mothers - make it to government department to surrender the child
Nature: the decisive solution for the climate change crisis
Best way to achieve climate change adaptation and mitigation is to utilise natural functions of healthy ecosystems
China to cap 2017 energy consumption at 4.4 bln tonnes coal equivalent
China is entering its third year of a "war on pollution", including a push to curb energy demand and use cleaner fuel
India centre to get transgender school dropouts ready for jobs
Transgenders have equal rights under the law in India but discrimination is still widespread
FEATURE-Gay rights groups brave abuse, violence to fight HIV in Cameroon
HIV and homosexuality are no laughing matter in a country where being gay is illegal and LGBT activists face rising hostility and violence
Maids, brick makers, children: the faces of slavery in 2016 driving change
Some of the good, bad and ugly stories on human trafficking from 2016
India's crackdown on 'nameless' properties can help clean up sector, experts say
Practice of buying property in name of someone other than buyer has been widely misused to buy real estate with undeclared income and with fake names and identities to avoid paying tax
Typhoon eases but Philippines braces for floods, mudslides; 2 dead
More than 300,000 people spent Christmas in shelter areas as typhoon lashed central Philippines
China smog war moves to courts with range of crimes to widen
New rules could make it easier to take legal action against companies causing air pollution
Traffickers get life in prison in India for chopping off labourers' hands
Prosecutor says hopes the severity of the punishment will deter others