No rush to change gender - UK writer joins trans debate
Many countries are currently reviewing laws on when and whether children can pick their own gender
Startups strive to recycle emissions for 'new carbon economy'
Converting CO2 into new materials has been a niche industry so far
Indian beauty pageant draws flak for unfair portrayal of women
Criticism of the annual beauty contest comes at a time when the treatment of women in the country of 1.3 billion people faces increasing scrutiny
US author Naomi Wolf stands by gay persecution book despite blunder
The author wrote about men sentenced to death in the 1850s for sodomy, despite the last recorded hanging for gay sex in Britain being 1835
Big clothes brands found to fall short of own fair wage promises
Most major garment companies lack plans for calculating - let alone achieving - a living wage in their global supply chains
China seen by LGBT+ groups as years away from same-sex marriage
Chinese LGBT+ groups are focusing on introducing anti-discrimination laws and banning conversion therapy
Living off trash: South Africa's waste pickers reclaim the streets
Reclaimers recycle 80 to 90% of plastic and packaging in South Africa, saving authorities up to 750 million Rand ($53 million) in landfill costs
Pakistan races to protect mountain villages from runaway glaciers
As some glaciers advance and others retreat, lakes of meltwater are forming that threaten mountain communities - but a new project aims to keep them safe from floods
Enslaved for decades, indigenous Indians freed by land titles
Across India, tens of thousands of indigenous people continue waging individual battles for small patches of land to which they have an ancestral claim
INTERVIEW-U.N. reform needed to stop companies fighting climate rules - Nobel laureate Stiglitz
Investor state dispute settlement cases risk having a "chilling effect" on implementing the stringent climate regulations required to fulfill a pact to curb global warming