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Globally maternal deaths have nearly halved since 1990 - falling to 216 women dying of maternal causes per 100,000 live births in 2015 from 385 per 100,000 in 1990.

If Kenya and other developing countries are to meet the U.N. Sustainable Development Goal to end these epidemics by 2030, they need to strengthen their health systems, experts say.

Women interviewed across Asia described a fairer playing field and higher drive to put compassion over valuation as the reason women are doing so well as social entrepreneurs.

ScrapApp's CEO Vidhur Bakshi, said investments form abroad have an positive impact in India where one-third of the 1.3 billion population live below the poverty line.

Gay sex is illegal in Tanzania and punishable by up to 30 years in prison.

Brokers in Egypt's underground trade in human body parts use prostitutes to tempt migrants to sell their kidneys as hospitals turn a blind eye to illicit dealing in donated organs for transplants, a report says.

Last month UNICEF said a spike in the forced recruitment of child soldiers in South Sudan could be imminent amid fears the East Africa nation was on the brink of renewed civil war.

The 18 million children in the 10 worst countries for access to primary school account for almost one third of the world's 61 million primary school-aged children who are out of school

Now there is a glimmer of hope for the many Rohingya and other refugees living in Malaysia, as authorities make a renewed effort to try to improve their access to work.

Local farmers have always depended on imported hybrid rice varieties, particularly from Asia, which sometimes do not adapt well to conditions in sub-Saharan Africa.

Between 2010 and 2013, Yemen, Tunisia and Egypt lost some three months of the average person's life expectancy, while the war in Syria has erased 6 years off average life expectancy.

Kidnapped and kept in chains for more than seven years in a jungle camp controlled by Colombia’s FARC rebels, Alan Jara knows how hard it is to forgive and reconcile with the past. One of countless victims in Colombia’s five-decade war, Latin America’s longest, Jara was released by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) […]