Britain behind in anti-slavery fight due to lack of victim support - report
Lack of adequate support for victims and uncertainty over their immigration rights are hampering efforts to prosecute and convict traffickers, according to legal experts
Disney doll factory in China investigated over treatment of workers
Staff at a toy factory in Heyuan, China, were working illegal overtime, receiving no holiday or sick pay, and often earned less than 1 pound per hour
What is rape? Despite #MeToo, few really know
Globally, one in three women experience physical or sexual violence
Niger adopts law to protect displaced people in first for Africa
There are about 174,000 displaced people in Niger, mostly in regions where Islamist violence has spilled over from Mali and Nigeria
Their waters wrested away, Colombia's island fishermen lament - and learn
"Over there is a bank rich in fish, red snapper and lobster. The catch is very good...But we can't fish there."
World's top glovemaker vows clean-up as migrant workers toil in Malaysia factories
The firm, a major supplier of medical and rubber gloves to 195 countries including Britain and the U.S., employs over 11,000 migrant workers
In southern Ethiopia, herders join forces to revive rangelands
Restoring grazing land and forest can help communities stand up to the more frequent droughts climate change is bringing, farmers say
Cambodia frees 32 surrogate mothers charged with human trafficking
The women, who were detained in July, were freed on bail this week after promising to raise the children themselves
New Zealand defence report says climate change greatest security risk
Climate change is "one of the most significant security threats of our time" - and is already causing problems, says defence minister
The $3bn map: scientists pool oceans of data to plot Earth's final frontier
"Can you imagine operating on the land without a map?" Drones and robots are helping to map the vast unknown