"Comfort Women": survivors tell their stories
Reuters photographer Kim Kyung-Hoon portrays surviving “Comfort Women”, the Japanese euphemism for the tens of thousands of Chinese and Korean women forced into Japanese military brothels before and during World War Two
World Refugee Day - A life displaced
June 20 marks World Refugee Day, an occasion that draws attention to those who have been displaced around the globe. The UN reports that by the end of 2011 some 43.3 million people were displaced by conflict and persecution, and an estimated up to 12 million people were thought to be stateless
Female drug addicts in Tanzania
Up to 50,000 Tanzanians living in its largest city, Dar es Salaam are drug users, according to the charity Medecins Du Monde.
Child marriage in Gaza
One morning, Reuters photographer Mohammad Salem received a phone call from a friend asking if he was interested in covering a wedding in the north of the Gaza Strip. The bride Tala Soboh is 14 years old, and her husband Ahmed is 15.
The Syrian conflict: Besieged Aleppo and Idlib province
More than five years of conflict have left the besieged population of Syria’s rebel-held Aleppo and Idlib province without access to enough food or medical assistance.
Trafficked, detained and tortured: the treacherous journey through Libya to Europe
Documenting the illegal migrants, refugees and asylum seekers at the mercy of militias who exploit them for financial gain in Libya.
My body is not a game: ending gender based violence in Brazil
It is as widespread as the nation's beloved soccer, which is played everywhere from rural provinces to dense slums and metropolitan towns. There are no winners, only victims in Brazil's epidemic of violence against girls and women.