Facebook post inspires landmark case for migrant workers in Thailand
For Tun Tun Win, $7 a day seemed a fair wage for a job often requiring 20-hour days, but he learned otherwise on Facebook
'Lack of options' force 4 million to flee from one conflict to another - report
"My parents and my wife asked me many times, 'Please move to another country that's safe'"
Britain's failure to tackle female genital mutilation a 'national disgrace'- lawmakers
British parliamentarians alarmed by the lack of prosecutions and to learn some clinicians ignore their legal duty to report cases to police, with some seeming to regard the duty as "optional"
Invest in farmers to stop desperate migration to city slums - U.N. agency
More than 50 percent of the world's population now lives in cities, a rise from 33 percent in 1960
Irrigation turns drought to cash for Cameroon's vegetable farmers
Farmers, many of them women, are now getting five crops a year, feeding markets as far away as Cameroon's cities
FEATURE-Ebola lessons spur on Sierra Leone's fight against maternal deaths
Maternal deaths were on the decline in Sierra Leone until 2013 - having halved since 1990 - then Ebola struck
INTERVIEW-South Sudanese stave off death with water lilies and goat bones
In Juba, vegetable traders are now cutting tomatoes in half to sell because some customers can no longer afford to buy a whole one
Refugee girls, hoping for more than survival, need education - Malala
Almost 80 percent of all refugee adolescents are out of school, with girls making up the majority of those excluded from education
Food aid reaches 140,000 hit by floods in North Korea - WFP
More than 70 percent of North Korea's population experiences food shortages, with many lacking essential proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals
FACTBOX-From independence to starvation in the world's newest nation, South Sudan
An estimated 4.8 million people from a population of about 11 million are going hungry with about 40,000 people at risk of dying