Corruption, caste keep poor from owning land in northern India
Despite laws to help people secure small plots of land, roughly 56 percent of India's rural households - about 100 million families - remain landless
SPECIAL REPORT - They escaped Islamic State. But their horror hasn't ended.
After months as a slave in Libya, Minya Mesmer had to get away. She could no longer let Islamic State captors rape and exchange her or her daughter. But their life would take a new, cruel, turn.
Lost lives: the battle of China's invisible children to recover missed years
Ending the one-child policy has left millions scrambling to make up for lost years
Peruvian activists fight for forcibly sterilised women
Many women sterilised were indigenous peasants, and those who signed consent forms in Spanish were illiterate and spoke only the indigenous Quechua language, rights groups say
Mike Pence look-alike raises money for LGBT charities in Times Square
Glenn Pannell uses striking resemblance to ask for donations for LGBT rights - in a show of opposition to the politician's conservative track record against gay rights and abortion
U.S. lawmakers urge end to Honduras security aid after murder of land rights activist
U.S. military aid should not be going to security forces who have been accused of serious human rights abuses, lawmakers say
Drought to intensify in Kenya in 2017, new early warning system shows
A new early warning system predicts the availability of forage for animals in the country's arid livestock-dependent north
Soaring number of children in UK seeking help over gender identity - charity
Some children as young as 11 tell counsellors they feel "trapped in the wrong body"
Famine may have killed 2,000 people in parts of Nigeria cut off from aid by Boko Haram - analysts
While food aid is staving off famine for people uprooted by Boko Haram conflict who can be reached, the outlook is bleak for those in parts of the northeast of Nigeria cut off from help