Two years ago, 34 striking miners in South Africa were shot dead by security forces. The cover-up was a national scandal. But do this summer’s wage protests herald a major force for change?
Sweden's prostitution law, which bans the buying but not the selling of sex, is increasingly seen as a model globally. But there are ways to improve it so it doesn't victimize sex workers.
Parents anxiously await news of their teenaged sons who were kidnapped from bus by Islamic militants in Syria.
The sanitization of Brazil's image before the 2014 World Cup could have serious implications for sex workers.
Drought-tolerant corn is off-limits to Tanzanian farmers as outside groups debate the best approach for easing hunger across Africa.
The Sri Lankan government still denies responsibility for the killing of up to 70,000 Tamil civilians at the end of the civil war in 2009. So why has it been chosen to host a Commonwealth summit?
Dr Mathew Varghese dreams of permanently overcoming the funding and education barriers faced by polio patients in India.
Photojournalist Sean Gallagher talks about climate change and environmental degradation on the Tibetan Plateau.
An initiative allowing the provenance of medicines to be verified using mobile technology is taking aim at the illegal drug trade. Too tall a task?
Last November, hundreds of women and children were raped in Minova, on the shores of Lake Kivu, by soldiers from the Congolese national army.
As the G8 discusses sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, perpetrators and victims speak out about mass rape in Minova.
Health workers in India are overcoming cultural mistrust about polio immunization by turning to local Muslim clerics for support.
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