Big cities vow to make buildings carbon neutral by 2050
Houses, offices and other buildings account for more than half of all planet-warming gasses emitted by urban areas
Somalia's first FGM prosecution 'hampered' by victim's parents
The case highlights the difficulties in ending the practice in Somalia which has the world's highest rate of FGM
New Zealand PM repeats offer to take refugees held by Australia
Australia declined New Zealand's offer last November to take asylum seekers sent to Australian-run detention centres in Nauru and Papua New Guinea's Manus Island
Pushing against closed doors: LGBT activists do battle over toilets
Campaigners for gender minorities want single-sex spaces open to anyone who says they identify that way, no matter what gender was assigned to them at birth
Palm oil watchdog urged to take 'giant leap' to save forests
Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil must include a commitment to zero deforestation in new standards, environmental experts say
'Lost generation' looms for Rohingya refugee children without education
The lives of more than 380,000 children in refugee camps in Bangladesh are in peril, while hundreds of thousands of Rohingya children in Myanmar are cut off from aid
U.S. appeals court finds Alabama abortion law unconstitutional
Alabama was trying to enforce a 2016 law criminalizing the dilation and evacuation (D&E) procedure, which the state called "dismemberment abortions."
#MeQueer takes Twitter by storm as LGBT community cries #MeToo
Violence against LGBT people is still "really widespread"
Beer, chips and historic women inspire new Brussels street names
The project comes as many cities taking on major regeneration projects look to ensure local people and histories are reflected
Asking job applicants what they earn 'traps women in low pay'
Britain outlawed sex discrimination in the 1970s, but gender pay inequality has been a persistent problem