Indian mother, daughter have heads shaved after resisting gang rape
India has a grim record of sexual violence against women despite legal reforms after the gang rape of a Delhi student on a bus in December 2012, which triggered global outrage
Baby wipes, tents and private jets: festivals vow to go green
Glastonbury festival has banned plastic bottles for the first time this year to prevent more than 1 million bottles going into landfill
African abortions rose under U.S. policy to stop them, study says
When the policy was in place in the Bush era, modern contraception use declined by 14% and pregnancy rates rose 12% in countries most reliant on U.S. family planning aid
Nepalese mum tells how unfair citizenship laws squander children's futures
Twenty-five countries - including Nepal, Oman, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Sudan - do not let women hand their nationality to their children, placing them at risk of becoming stateless
Festival-goers form climate-change hourglass in Glastonbury sunshine
"I think people are finally beginning to realise that, in order to tackle the climate and ecological emergency, we are going to have to be radical," says one activist
With ball gowns and dance, LGBT+ refugees in Kenya cast aside woes to celebrate
Many of the more than 750 LGBT+ refugees in Kenya are forced to live in the shadows and often lack protection, safe housing and employment
Laundry ad promoting working women sparks furore in Pakistan
Women make up 7% of Pakistan's labour force, according to the World Bank, which has pushed for more childcare and a crackdown on sexual harassment
Violence affects more people than ever before in Africa's Sahel
At the new nexus of violence, where Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger meet, more than 1,200 civilians have been directly targeted and killed this year through May
Asian firms with women leaders deliver better financial results
Firms whose boards were at least 30% female generated more income from their assets than those with all-male boards
'Peace ambassadors' ease water conflicts in drought-prone Kenya
Volunteers are being trained to show rural communities ways to use water more efficiently to grow crops, and how to ease local tensions over the scarce resource