'Insurance gap' threatens disaster-vulnerable poor nations - Lloyd's
Emerging economies that lack insurance face crippling losses in the face of worsening floods, storms and other disasters
Data project aims to stop human trafficking before it occurs - organisers
Shared data hub will collect information on money moving around the world and compare it to known ways that traffickers move their illicit gains
INTERVIEW - Model Natalia Vodianova gets personal in bid to save disabled children from orphanages
More than 80 percent of children in care are not orphans but have been separated from their families due to poverty or discrimination
INTERVIEW - Victims key to tackling sexual harassment, says UN adviser
The U.N. has been rocked by dozens of cases as the #MeToo campaign has emboldened women to speak out against their abusers
Twenty men convicted of grooming and raping young girls in Britain
Britain has been rocked by a series of child sex abuse and trafficking cases, with hundreds of girls exploited by large gangs
Nobel laureate urges end to impunity on rape as weapon of war
Denis Mukwege founded the Panzi Hospital in 1999 to help women and girls who had been raped during the conflict in eastern Congo
What is a woman? Toxic debate over trans rights engulfs Britain
Trans people currently need a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria and proof of having lived in their new gender for at least two years, as well as meeting a slew of other conditions
Unfinished business? Vancouver mayor departs with 'Greenest City' goal uncertain
But the Pacific coastal city is pushing ahead toward ambitious carbon goals "regardless of who the next mayor is"
New Laos land law could block customary rights, women's titles - analysts
The new law could curb land ownership by women as well as the rights of indigenous people
Young entrepreneurs lend glamour to African agriculture
Africa has the world's youngest population and 65 percent of its uncultivated arable land