OPINION: The United Nations’ recognition of lesbian and bisexual women is a landmark for human rights
The UN holds that laws criminalising lesbian and bisexual women violates women's rights in a landmark decision
Sentenced for a selfie: Middle East police target LGBTQ+ phones
WhatsApp, Grindr and Facebook were once a place that gay, bisexual and trans Arabs could find freedom. Now, their digital footprints could land them behind bars
Safe sex: the latest casualty of Lebanon's economic meltdown
A sharp devaluation has hiked the cost of imported birth control supplies including condoms, raising fears of a wave of sexually transmitted infections and unplanned pregnancies
FACTBOX: Colombia decriminalizes abortion amid Latin American shift
Monday’s landmark court ruling makes Colombia the region's third country in two years to decriminalize abortion, after Argentina and Mexico
New Zealand passes law banning conversion therapy
The landmark bill will see perpetrators of forced conversion therapy face up to five years in prison
Booming NFT art market plagued by 'mind-blowing' fraud
As the NFT market explodes into a $25 billion industry, artists worry that lax oversight is leading to a digital art world flooded with fakes.
Online content moderation: Can AI help clean up social media?
From Facebook to Twitter, machine learning algorithms are policing online content to decide what's banned and what's not. But how do they work? And are they effective?
Abortion rights: U.S. restrictions buck the global trend in 2021
While U.S. states have enacted more than 100 abortion curbs this year, countries including Mexico and Argentina have eased their strict laws
Rohingya lawsuit against Facebook a 'wake-up call' for social media
Will the landmark suit, which argues that the spread of hate speech on the platform facilitated the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, be a turning point for Big Tech?
In Honduras, first woman president faces tough fight on abortion
Smeared as a 'baby killer' by critics, Xiomara Castro faces a struggle to get political backing to loosen a strict abortion ban in Honduras