Educación y habilidades
Making history, UK's new feminist party leader aims to popularise 'f-word' politics
The new leader of Britain's Women's Equality Party agrees with her political opponents on one thing - she wishes her party did not exist.
Emma Batha
Emma Batha is a journalist specialising in humanitarian crises and women’s rights. She joined the Thomson Reuters Foundation from the Reuters international editing desk in London.
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Arte y Cultura
Scottish 'Holocaust heroine' who saved Jewish girls lauded in book
A Scottish "Holocaust heroine" and quiet champion of educating girls helped save many Jews in Hungary before dying herself in a Nazi concentration camp, according to a book out on Wednesday.
Equidad, Diversidad e Inclusión
UK companies urged to boost efforts to close gender pay gap
British companies must dramatically ramp up efforts to close the gender pay gap, equality campaigners said on Thursday ahead of a midnight deadline for organisations to report pay differe...
Educación y habilidades
Dublin's homeless are being retrained as city tour guides
Dublin's Phoenix Park boasts the official residence of Ireland's president, but for a while it was also home to Eddie Dooner who lived there in a tent with three dogs.
Salud y sistemas de salud
How a mosquito 'birth control' could be key in the fight against malaria
Scientists in the United States said on Tuesday they had taken a major step toward developing a "mosquito birth control" drug to curb the spread of malaria and other killer diseases blame...
Acción climática
This surprising innovation could cut your pet's carbon pawprint
Love your dog, but worried about the environmental impact of their meat-heavy diet? Now one British company is offering a solution - feed your pooch insects instead.
Tecnologías emergentes
This mobile app is paying refugees to train artificial intelligence
Companies could help refugees rebuild their lives by paying them to boost artificial intelligence (AI) using their phones and giving them digital skills, a tech non-profit said on Thursday.
Equidad, Diversidad e Inclusión
These countries are doing the most to reduce inequality
Nigeria, Singapore and India are among countries fuelling the gap between the super-rich and poor, aid agency Oxfam said on Tuesday as it launched an index spotlighting those nations doin...
Equidad, Diversidad e Inclusión
Ahead of the 2030 deadline, there are large gaps in the data on gender equality
World leaders who have pledged to end gender inequality by 2030 will miss the ambitious target if they do not accelerate efforts to plug "profound" data gaps, experts said ahead of launch...
Crecimiento Económico
The countries making the most progress on human development
Gender inequality is one of the greatest barriers to human development progress, U.N. officials said as they launched an index on Friday showing the countries making the biggest strides a...
Resiliencia, Paz y Seguridad
Crop-munching armyworm could threaten millions of farmers in Asia
A voracious crop-chomping pest which has wrought havoc in Africa could threaten millions of farmers in Asia, U.N. experts warned on Tuesday, as India battles the continent's first reporte...
Alimentación y Agua
This international company is banning meat at work
Office-sharing company WeWork, which operates in 22 countries, is going meat-free and will ban its 6,000 staff from expensing meals containing meat in a bid to "leave a better world for f...
Geografías en profundidad
Europe's refugee and migrant crisis in 2016. In numbers
Last year more than 1 million refugees and migrants arrived in Europe, many fleeing wars in Asia and the Middle East.
Sociedad Civil
This is how Mozambique plans to end child marriage
Mozambique, which has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world, unveiled a national plan on Monday to end the practice which affects nearly half of the country's girls.
Where are the world's female leaders?
Taiwan elected the first female president in the Chinese-speaking world on Saturday when voters handed opposition leader Tsai Ing-wen a convincing victory.