Nov 13 (Openly) - Namibia's High Court will rule next May in a case that could see the southern African country overturn a colonial-era ban on same-sex relations. Friedel Dausab, who is gay, is ...

TILOS, Greece, July 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Before the tiny Greek island of Tilos became a big name in recycling, taverna owner Aristoteles Chatzifountas knew that whenever he threw his ...

JOHANNESBURG/ACCRA, June 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Alongside the food, clothing and nappies gifted to a shelter for South African flood victims, one donation proved especially popular - a ...

MUMBAI, May 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The brothels look brighter, the alleyways are cleaner, and a stirring soundtrack accompanies the protagonists, but a new Bollywood film set in Mumbai's ...

The number of people who have fled Ukraine passed 6 million in May, in Europe's worst refugee crisis since the end of World War Two, the U.N. agency reported. Most refugees have crossed to the ...

BANGKOK, Dec 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Cambodia's central bank launched a pilot for a digital payment system in July 2019, its aim was to increase financial inclusion in the country and ...

Africa has the world's youngest population, and youth activists from Sudan to South Africa have been vocal in pushing for bolder policy action DURBAN, Dec 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As climate ...

LISBON, Nov 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Connecting everyone in the world to the web will not single-handedly bridge the digital divide, tech experts at the Web Summit said this week, citing other ...

NAIROBI, Oct 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Until a year ago, it would take Pamela Auma a whole month to prepare the land on her farm in western Kenya for planting ahead of the rainy season. With ...

Zimbabwean sex worker Mandy Kusasa looks at a smartphone in her room in Dangamvura, Zimbabwe. THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION/Farai Shawn Matiashe NAIROBI/MUTARE, Sept 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Without immediate action to combat climate change, rising sea levels, water scarcity and declining crop productivity could force 216 million people to migrate within ...

Reverend Angela Martin of the Maryland Poor People's Campaign takes part in a protest in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, U.S., June 23, 2021. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein Sept 8 (Reuters) - ...