Olympics - 2020 Winter Youth Olympics - Leysin Park, Leysin, Switzerland - January 20, 2020 Austria's Daniel Bacher in action during the Freestyle Skiing Men's Freeski Slopestyle Simon Bruty for OIS/IOC/Handout via REUTERS

Out of court: Ugandans turn to 'barefoot lawyers' to settle land disputes

The legal group was founded by Ugandan law students as a Facebook page and now reaches 350,000 people a month through social media and public meetings

After four decades of war, Afghan widows battle for homes

Often with few livelihood options, Afghan widows are also generally denied a share of land and property, even though these rights are recognised in the Afghan constitution

Door-knocking neighbors help avert home seizures in Detroit

Detroit has been ravaged by property tax foreclosures, now a group of people are warning homeowners in their communities whose properties are at risk

More evictions feared in India as citizenship law is enforced

Human rights groups and slum dwellers in India say they expect evictions as a new citizenship law is enforced in the country

Forest monitoring gets a boost from Japanese space agency data

Felling trees exacerbates climate change as forests absorb a third of emissions produced globally but when cut down, the carbon is released back into the air through burning or rotting

UK children to get right to know if parents are spying on them

Companies must tell children if their products include parental controls to limit access or watch over them, according to a new code

In vanishing portraits, artist urges world leaders to protect indigenous tribes

An artist is using vanishing portraits of endangered tribes to spur world leaders into action at the World Economic Forum in Davos

Most new housing designs in England are 'substandard', audit finds

The audit reviewed more than 140 housing developments built since 2007 and found 1 in 5 should have been refused planning permission

Tech must diversify to avoid inbuilt bias, says Facebook's Sandberg

'We really have to work hard to not have those biases become part of technology, which means we need more women in the field,' Sandberg said