Peru's Amazon communities build resilience to fight forest loss
Three indigenous communities in Peru's Amazon are getting help to improve their incomes, with the aim of stemming deforestation
5 facts you need to know about Ethiopia
Three decades after BBC broadcast first TV reports of famine in Ethiopia, it remains one of the most food-insecure countries. Here are 5 facts you need to know about Ethiopia
5 facts you didn't know about women and land
Worldwide, over the past 50 years restrictions on women’s property rights have been reduced by half, yet still less than 20% of landholders are women. Here are 5 facts you didn't know about women and land:
5 facts: Hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons
Hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons
Tanzanian child victims of witchcraft attacks get new limbs
Four Tanzanian children with albinism who lost limbs, fingers, and teeth in superstition-driven attacks made their way home this week after receiving prosthetics.
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.
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.