Despite the commitment of governments, business and religious leaders to ending it, human trafficking is a persistent evil in the globalized world. We should be more realistic about how w...
A team of Kenyan school girls are travelling to Google's HQ in Calfornia as part of this year's Technovation competition.
According to a new United Nations report, most of the work of getting water falls on women and girls.
The scale of forced migration today has revealed troubling flaws in organizations designed to help and protect.
Where nation states and populists are closing borders and rejecting migrants, cities are open, diverse and cosmopolitan - making them a potential antidote to reactionary nationalism aroun...
Until Australia allows same-sex marriage, Ben and Jerry’s won’t serve two scoops of the same ice cream
Civil liberties have not progressed in tandem with the region’s economic prosperity.
Governments must stop silencing young activists and instead work with them to respond to human rights issues. The key question is - how?
Citizens of some African nations enjoy similar travel rights to Europeans, while others fare little better than Syrian passport-holders.
3.2 billion people live in countries where civic space is either repressed or non-existent. Without action from the business world, things will only get worse.
Iceland is to become the first country in the world to make companies prove they pay all employees equally.
A Wall Street firm put up a statue of a girl in front of Lower Manhattan's well-known bronze charging bull.
These maps provide a snapshot of LGBT rights around the world.
As UNICEF flags the risks faced by children in four countries, a look back at famines over the last 100 years.
March 20th marks the World Day of Social Justice. The point of the occasion is to recognize the need for fair access to resources and opportunities, and for societies to be rooted in huma...
