Zimbabwe drought, hunger push farmers to seek greener pastures
As water disappears in southern Zimbabwe, many farmers are looking for new lives elsewhere
INTERVIEW -Focused global strategy needed to end child slavery by 2025 - Jeffrey Sachs
"It's a disgrace of our civilisation that we not only allow this vulnerability, but it is happening to hundreds of millions of people in a world of such wealth."
Bill Gates, investors launch $1 billion clean tech fund
Gates launches Breakthrough Energy Ventures fund along with Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg, Alibaba Chairman Jack Ma and Amazon chief Jeff Bezos
India's landmark forest rights law hobbled by conflicting policies - report
Since 2006 law passed, only 3 percent of potential community forest rights granted, and conflicts between states and indigenous communities rising as demand for land increases
Protests end Wonder Woman's fight for equality at United Nations
The scantily clad comic book superhero has had her appointment as a United Nations honorary ambassador axed following protests
Qatar defends new labour law as accused of abusing migrant workers
Rights groups say the current system has forced workers to toil under dangerous conditions which amount to modern-day slavery.
Wonder Woman stint as UN ambassador ending after outcry
Plans had called for use of Wonder Woman in an empowerment campaign for women and girls into 2017
Africa must act now if it is to feed itself in 2050 - scientists
Africa must break a culture of complacency and start to invest more in agriculture, researchers say
Nordic companies fall short on transparency over child rights
Only 10 percent of the companies reported that their board took responsibility for children's rights issues
Qatar's new labour law won't stop abuses of migrant workers, say rights groups
Rights groups say the current system has forced workers to toil under dangerous, sometimes fatal, conditions which amount to modern-day slavery