Herders suffer in fight against Boko Haram
The Nigerian government shut down the cattle trade that sustained the city of Maiduguri to strangle the Boko Haram insurgency, leaving many residents with no livelihood, including many of the two million people displaced by the war
When a child's playground is also their toilet
Children who live in Ngombe often don't have a choice but to play in the same areas where they relieve themselves
El Salvador protects its forests from onslaught by ranchers
El Salvador's forests, many of which were damaged in the 1980s civil war, are now under threat from cattle ranchers who burn off trees to convert the land into pasture
Hardship and hope: Typhoon Haiyan survivors in their own words
Two years after Typhoon Haiyan hit the Phillipines, survivors told the Thomson Reuters Foundation their stories. Yolanda, as it is locally known, was the strongest typhoon ever to make landfall, killing more than 6,300 people and uprooting 4.1 million from their homes.
5 facts you need to know about human trafficking
Trafficking for forced labour accounts for 36% of all trafficking cases. Forced labour generates $150 billion in illegal profits per year. Here are 5 facts about trafficking
Traces of migrants' unfinished journeys
Photos, watches, cellphones, taken from the bodies of some 90 migrants – Syrian, Pakistani and Sudanese - who died at sea on three boats in the Mediterranean and kept by Italian police to identify them and help convict people smugglers
Singapore's "silent army" of migrant domestic workers
Singapore, one of the richest nations in Southeast Asia, is home to estimated 220,000 foreign domestic workers mostly from Indonesia, the Philippines and Myanmar.