Oxfam, one of Britain's biggest charities, was thrown into crisis last year when it was reported that some former staff in Haiti paid for sex while on a mission. LONDON, June 11 ( ...

The accounts of women sexually assaulted during protests in Egypt’s Tahrir Square are horrific not just for their sheer brutality but for the apparent level of organisation among huge gangs of ...

Two weeks ago I found myself showing Angelina Jolie and UK foreign minister William Hague around the Lac Vert camp for displaced people near Goma, where they had come to meet rape survivors. Two weeks ...

At dawn on a sultry summer morning, Balaram Raute stood on a boat bobbing in a murky creek outside Mumbai, waiting for the sun to light up the water so he could dive in to dig sand. Minutes later he ...

A box of vegetables is displayed at a 900 square meters farm garden on the rooftop of a postal sorting center, as part of a project by Facteur Graine (Seed Postman) association to transform a city ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Stoning, a form of execution where a group throws stones at a person until they are dead, still happens in parts of the Muslim world, mostly as a punishment for ...

* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Developing countries need clarity and confidence now that the $100 billion a year pledged to ...

The pandemic ushered in a golden age of remote test proctoring - but students say the technology can be invasive and biased Nov 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When U.S. law student Areeb Khan tried ...

In the depths of India's illegal mica mines, where children as young as five work alongside adults, lurks a dark, hidden secret - the cover-up of child deaths with seven killed in the past two months, ...

TBILISI, March 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As coronavirus closes churches, synagogues and mosques worldwide, religious leaders are taking faith online to ensure God's word gets to the millions ...

Faced with escalating violence, a lack of funding, and locked out of male-dominated networks, many women are reluctant to enter politics with growing concerns that a drive to get women into power ...

Most countries are at high risk of using slave labour in their supply chains, with North Korea ranked worst in the world LONDON, Aug 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Almost 60 percent of countries ...