INTERVIEW-World must ratify rules to stem child abuse -expert
Over one in four children have been sexually abused in East Asia and Pacific region
Dismantling gender stereotypes: the role of laws
Gender stereotypes disadvantage women in many ways. A book by Rebecca J. Cook and Simone Cusack examines these stereotypes from a legal perspective and argues for a transnational legal approach to dismantling them.
Conflict-hit Myanmar needs urgent humanitarian aid ?Refugees International
A third of the Southeast Asian country's population lives in poverty
US Court allows Texas law on ultrasound before abortion
Law requires abortion providers to show or describe an ultrasound image to a woman of her pregnancy and to play sounds of the fetal heart
Doctors track Haiti cholera epidemic on Twitter ? study
Nearly 7,000 Haitians have died from cholera since start of outbreak in late 2010. Over half a million people have been infected
Lack of awareness, stigma fuel marital rape in Nepal
Many wives in Nepal suffer from marital rape on a routine basis