'Follow the water': Worsening drought dries up housing for rural NamibiansAs rural Namibians move to cities to escape drought, many end up in makeshift houses in overcrowded informal settlements |
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Women's rights: 25 years of progress? Or not?Despite progress in some areas, equality remains a long way off, with millions of girls and women affected by poverty, violence and discrimination |
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A day without women: strikes in Mexico and Argentina follow huge ralliesThe action is intended to show what life would be like if women disappeared from society |
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Huge turnout, some violence at Latin America Women's Day marchesThe marches have been triggered by a growing outcry over inequality, femicide and abortion controls |
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India's poor risk loss of privacy, land in drive to digitise recordsExperts say push to digitise land records to establish ownership could make poor communities more vulnerable to evictions |
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War or peace? A threatened Brazilian indigenous tribe weighs its optionsEndangered by land-grabbers and illegal loggers, an Amazon community debates how best to respond |
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Asia's love of stinky durian could help power tuk-tuks and phonesResearchers have used waste from durian and jackfruit to create electricity storage and are hoping it could be used in batteries |
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Even mask-wearers can be ID'd, China facial recognition firm saysThe technology is being used by China's Ministry of Public Security, allowing it to cross-reference images with its own database of names and other information |
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'Visible women': Feminist mappers bridge data gap in urban designWomen mappers add services often overlooked by men, such as hospitals or toilets, they also tend to focus more on safety |
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Global finance must 'align' in climate change fight, says UK ministerMinister leading COP26 climate summit calls for push to turn "billions into trillions" of dollars funding green growth worldwide |
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Where Latin America women are fighting the world's highest murder ratesIn a region where femicide claims the lives of 12 women a day, Latin American women take to the streets to demand action |
OPINION: The climate crisis has a female faceGroups of climate activists are dominated by women because they suffer the most from the climate crisis fuelled by our patriarchal economic system |
OPINION: Women, find the leader in yourself!We want every woman to achieve her full potential no matter whether she chose to be a doctor, a mother, a teacher or a leader |
OPINION: #EachforEqual - In pursuit of genuine gender equalityInternational Women’s Day is about women, about men, about people of all genders and about LGBT+ people too, as gender inequality affects every single one of us |
OPINION: International Women’s Day is not a 'Hallmark holiday'Women around the world should join forces to make International Women’s Day more than a 'Hallmark holiday' |
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