by Yemural Nyoni, AllAfrica, Peru- What if there was there was a practice that, if ended, could improve the lives of millions of women and girls worldwide? Every year, 14 million girls are married before the age of 18 inmost cases…

by Imogen Mathers, SciDevNet, UK – “Evidence could be collected using satellite imagery of population dispersals and troop movements, or mobile phone applications that store and analyse data on mass violence patterns, types of violation, and the age and gender of victims.…

by Neeta Lal, IPS, Italy – National outrage over women’s security in India – or the lack of it – is nothing new. From the gang rape of a young girl on a Delhi bus two years ago, to the recent…

by Zoraida Portillo, AllAfrica, Peru – An ‘open-source’ seed initiative has released 36 varieties of 14 food crops, which the project’s leaders say could help poor farmers get access to better quality seeds. The new seed varieties have been available for delivery globally…

by Lisa De Bode, Aljazeera America, USA – Non-state armed groups have used children who appeared as young as 10 to participate in Syria’s devastating civil war, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released Monday. Boys joined the armed groups for…

by Jane Wakefield, BBC, UK – “At a time when our lives are recorded and analysed by countless services, organisations and the state, educating young people about the importance of privacy and considering what information they share should be high on…

by Hendrina Doroba, ThinkAfricaPress, London – According to the 2012 United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) report ‘Marrying Too Young: End Child Marriage‘, every year 14 million girls around the world are married before they are 18 years old. Burdened with the responsibilities…

by Katy Migiro, AlertNet, UK – One in ten South Sudanese children admitted to Medicines Sans Frontieres (MSF) hospitals for refugees in Ethiopia are dying, the medical charity said, warning that conditions are likely to worsen as seasonal rains set in.…

by  Marianela Jarroud, IPS, Italy- In April 2004, Argentina began to steadily cut natural gas exports to neighbouring Chile, triggering a major energy crisis and revealing structural problems in this vital sector. Ten years later, a regasification plant which converts liquefied…

by Milagros Salazar, IPS, Italy –  Peru urgently needs a national plan for the management of water over the next two decades, one that will take into account the effects of climate change and the social and environmental conflicts triggered…