For women who have suffered the trauma of sexual violence, emotional support can offer a lifeline. So why are rape crisis centres struggling to stay open?

The cold has come early to poor Andean villages where families have long existed on the margins of survival. Now some must choose whether to save the animals that give them a living, or their children

First gay marriage in Latin America follows three-year campaign that overturned laws and angered millions of Catholics

Surge in deaths and kidnaps among poor linked to witch-doctors and organ trafficking

Traumatised by war, then abandoned by the state – children of Liberia have now been cast out by their own families

Lesbian women in South Africa are facing a rising tide of violence and “corrective rape”