A worker chops off fallen branches in a resort blanketed with volcanic ash in Talisay, Batangas, Philippines, January 14, 2020. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez

Slave descendants in tiny S. African town battle for church-owned land

'Not owning land feels like we have gone back to being slaves,' said Elim's heritage officer

Sex trade flourishes in Peru's Amazon despite crackdown on illegal mining

Often poor and with little education, women and girls from indigenous farming communities make easy prey for traffickers, who lure them with false promises of well-paid jobs

Breaking down walls, Iranian women fight home-built patriarchy

A female architect has developed an ambitious project to map 'signs of resistance' of Iranian women in their own homes

India's Dalits protest against plan to develop common land

A government plan to use common land for industrial development in the Punjab could deny land rights to Dalits, say activists

Deadly land dispute in Vietnam sparks crackdown on 'critical' social media

Four people were killed and dozens arrested last week in the village of Dong Tam as a long-running land dispute flared after a dawn raid by police

Art installation shows the reality of London's toxic air

The large balloons change colour to show how much harmful nitrogen dioxide has been measured in the air

Dating apps share intimate data about users, says consumer group

'These practices are out of control and in breach of European data protection legislation' - Norwegian Consumer Council

U.S. flood risk model to be publicly available in boon for homebuyers

The data will be made available to the public in the first half of 2020 in an online database searchable by home address

Haiti farmers eager to receive compensation after 'groundbreaking' land deal

A decade after an earthquake killed more than 200,000 people, farmers in Haiti are still waiting to receive compensation for their land used to build an industrial park