Top EU official draws lipstick under eye to protest domestic abuse
Famous footballers including Cristiano Ronaldo also painted lipstick lines on their cheeks to support an Italian anti-violence campaign.
Rugby teams don rainbow laces to support hate crime victim Gareth Thomas
Thomas posted a video on social media last weekend saying he had been attacked in the Welsh capital Cardiff.
Clashing with Trump, US govt report says climate change will batter economy
The dire warning is at odds with the Trump administration's pro-fossil-fuels agenda.
European countries urged to scrap 'outdated, harmful' rape laws
Only a quarter of countries surveyed by Amnesty International define rape as sex without consent
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon reaches decade high
Deforestation is a key factor behind global warming, accounting for similar emissions of heat-trapping gases to the transportation sector.
U.S. report says climate change will batter economy, in clash with Trump
The dire warning is at odds with the Trump administration's pro-fossil-fuels agenda.
UK failing LGBT+ teens on mental health - campaigners
Nearly 35 percent of lesbian, gay and bisexual 14 to 19-year-olds in England had a mental disorder, compared to 13 percent of heterosexual adolescents
Dozens of indigenous women forcibly sterilised in Canada, U.N. committee hears
Forced sterilisations are symptomatic of the discrimination and abuse faced by Canada's indigenous women, experts say
Climate cash for developing world set to meet U.N. 2020 goal
Rich countries in 2009 agreed to raise $100 billion a year by 2020 to back efforts by vulnerable, poorer states to shift their economies onto a greener path
Campaigners challenge U.N. over forced labour in Uzbekistan's cotton industry
Despite ending child labour in 2015, activists say hundreds of thousands of people in Uzbekistan are still forced to pick cotton