From Lahore to Lucknow, crimes against women spur more surveillance

Digital rights activists warn the rise of facial recognition and safety apps expose women to privacy violations and harassment

Biden urged to use clean energy benefits more to fight inequality

Activists say a measure to allocate 40% of benefits from clean-energy investments to disadvantaged communities should be increased

Climate change, rich-poor gap, conflict likely to grow -U.S. intelligence report

Climate change, disease, financial crises and technological disruption "are likely to manifest more frequently and intensely in almost every region and country," the report said

Canada aims to raise safety along notorious "Highway of Tears" with cell phone service

The remote stretch of highway infamous for women, largely indigenous, going missing along the way will now get improved cell phone coverage in attempt to make it safer

Booming market for fake COVID-19 vaccine passports sparks alarm

Fraudsters sell forged COVID-19 vaccination certificates on the dark web in a fast-growing pandemic scam, cyber security analysts say

Kim Kardashian is now a self-made female billionaire. Here are 5 more on the short list

Kim Kardashian joins Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd in becoming a self-made female billionaire. Here are five women who blazed the trail

After Myanmar coup, printed newsletter keeps protesters informed

A simple newsletter printed on a piece of A4 paper is helping keep people up-to-date despite a crackdown on media and the internet following February's coup d'etat

Legacy for the future? Japan urged to outlaw LGBT+ discrimination before Olympics

Japanese trans athlete Fumino Sugiyama says, "We can't look back and say: 'Oh there was a big party, but nothing changed.'

Vaccine reaches descendants of runaway slaves as COVID-19 ravages Brazil

The community known as a "quilombo," a settlement founded by people who escaped from slavery, has now received the first doses of COVID-19 vaccine

OPINION: As crises converge, it's time to plant seeds for a different future

Now is the time to engage those left out of important conversations and build a more just, compassionate and climate-smart post-pandemic world

OPINION: ‘Dear John Kerry,’ from a youth climate activist in Bangladesh

As the U.S. climate change envoy arrives in Bangladesh we have a simple request: use your wealth, built on fossil fuels, to help us develop renewable energy

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