Migrant's journey from rural Bangladesh shows sacrifices, dangers of slum life
Some half a million rural migrants stream into Dhaka for work each year, swelling the number of urban poor living in slums built on private land
Workers laying roads in southern India rescued from debt bondage
An estimated 18 million people live in some form of modern slavery in India
Stateless limbo ends as 3,000 'legal ghosts' in the Philippines get nationality
Around 40 percent of the world's estimated 10 million stateless people live in southeast Asia
Disaster loss estimates ignore higher cost to poor - World Bank
A flood or earthquake can flatten the poor - but not show up as a big economic impact if they already buy very little
New U.N. role needed to fight human trafficking in conflict - experts
"There is a tendency for the agencies to their own thing and not be sufficiently aware of what other agencies are doing ... We need a central responsibility"
Lack of school drives girls into armed groups in eastern Congo - charity
Dozens of armed groups in eastern Congo prey on locals and exploit mineral reserves, and girls forced to join militia groups for food, money and protection
INTERVIEW-U.S. will be 'rogue' state if it ditches climate accord - UN envoy
It is "unconscionable" that the United States would walk away from its climate change commitments, says Mary Robinson
Poor women's voices still missing from U.N. climate talks
Rural women are hugely knowledgeable about climate change - but that expertise isn't making it into the negotiations
Trump win fuels donations, IUD demand at Planned Parenthood
Trump and Republicans lawmakers may cut funds to Planned Parenthood and dismantle Obamacare, which mandates insurance coverage for contraceptives
First U.S. transgender soldiers make gender transition after policy shift
"The only thing that we should be discriminating on is performance"