Roses and childcare: refugee women prepare for tough UK world of work
Refugee women train as florists in a bid to overcome challenges on their way to meaningful employment
Politics of Death: Colonial scars and drought feed Kenya land wars
"We have nowhere to graze ... I cannot wait and see livestock dying and yet there is grass here," says a herder who lives near Martin Evans' cattle ranch
Afghan women refugees resurrected as India's plastic waste warriors
How to address India's chronic waste problem and empower refugee women who often flounder in their adopted homelands
FACTBOX-Global number of widows rises as war and disease take toll
Widow "cleansing" rituals in Africa may require a widow to drink the water used to wash her dead husband's body or to have sex with an in-law or a stranger
Haiti orphanages hotspot of child trafficking, abuse, says charity
Poor families are duped into giving up their children by orphanage directors who hire child-finders and local pastors who also seek out children
Persistent ad stereotypes block women's equality - top UN official
Advertising has the power to create positive portrayals of women and eliminate stereotypes, says head of U.N. women
One of China's richest women hopes to keep driving culture of philanthropy
A humble upbringing made Zhai Meiqin determined to help others
Safe burial methods averted thousands of Ebola deaths - researchers
Each unsafe burial had the potential to generate more than 2.5 secondary cases of Ebola infection
Honduras pledges new era in human rights, creates cabinet post
Rights watchdogs consider Honduras one of the most hostile and dangerous countries for human rights defenders
Spiralling violence in Central African Republic isolates neediest
Recent fighting has uprooted more than 100,000 people, in the worst displacement since the nation plunged into chaos four years ago