Female comic superhero fights India's sex traffickers, challenges stigma
Thousands of people across India – largely poor, rural women and children – are lured to cities each year by traffickers who promise good jobs, but sell them into modern day slavery
Argentine health chief quits in abortion fight with conservative president
It is estimated there are at least 350,000 illegal abortions in Argentina every year, though rights groups say number may be higher
OPINION: Using advocacy training to tackle violence against women in Nigeria
I tell women: it’s not about your education level, it’s about knowing your rights and using your voice
FACTBOX-Myanmar on trial for Rohingya genocide – the legal cases
Soldiers, police, and Buddhist villagers are alleged to have razed hundreds of villages in the western Rakhine state, torturing residents as they fled, carrying out mass-killings and gang-rapes
Suu Kyi to contest Rohingya genocide case at world court
More than 730,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh since a 2017 crackdown by Myanmar's military, which U.N. investigators say was carried out with 'genocidal intent'
Two members of Spain's 'Wolf Pack' sentenced for filming gang-rape
The men, who include a former policeman and a former soldier, shared videos of the incident in a WhatsApp group and joked about it shortly afterwards
Congo court hands life sentence to warlord for murder, sexual violence
United Nations investigators say his forces were responsible for abducting and repeatedly gang raping at least 17 women in a cave last year
U.S. Supreme Court to mull time limits on military rape claims
The Justice Department has warned that the Pentagon continues to receive reports of rapes that occurred before 2006 but a military court's ruling 'bars prosecution of any of them'
Women leaders driven offline and out of work by social media abuse
Two years after the global #MeToo movement began, virulent online abuse of women has now pushed some out of public life
Sacked, shunned and suicidal - the Cameroon sports stars battling anti-gay laws
Cameroonian athletes are being forced off national teams if they are, or are suspected to be, gay or lesbian