News from the International Bar Association's annual meeting could signal the end of the beginning in the fight against tax evasion, the head of Global Financial Integrity (GFI) says

The deputy director of the OGP Support Unit outlines what this month's London Summit hopes to achieve

If oil palm plantations were developed only on degraded land, they would cause less damage to forest ecosystems

Empowering women and girls like Malala—now a global icon in the fight for gender equality—has proven catalytic in tackling poverty. Ending violence against them and addressing the cultural norms that perpetuate are now rightly top development priorities.

In Kenya's Pokot region, over 50 percent of girls between the ages of 10 and 21 years have been subjected to FGM

More voices, better local capacity and sharing of knowledge are keys

Reuters photographer Mohammad Salem tells Maria Caspani how he got access to a wedding between a 15-year-old boy and his 14-year-old bride

Violence against girls is one of the most pressing challenges the world faces. How can we turn things around?

Scotland is helping Malawi and Zambia adapt to climate change – but scaling up will require businesses to step in

The breakthrough on Iran-US relations is all to the good but there is a long road to go yet, says Dan Smith of International Alert

With 2 billion more mouths to feed by 2050, let's get serious about the links between farming and climate change

Fields are living laboratories in which an army of innovators works daily - they need recognition and support

The utter brutality of this movie is physically and emotionally painful, but it is important to watch for the truths it surfaces about greed, violence and modern-day slavery

The massacre of at least half a million Indonesians believed to be communists nearly five decades ago was one of the country’s darkest episodes

Research shows women are critical to solving food insecurity, but they need access to land

How to run a refugee camp in the middle of a desert and why girls should be put at the centre of development

Somalia has one of the world’s highest rates of mental illness with one in three people affected, WHO says

As the fledgling fund's board meets in Paris, there are five key areas it needs to make progress on, researchers say

Many Indian fertility clinics and banks advertise surrogacy services online, providing information for overseas clients from countries such as Britain, the United States and Australia.

Despite official ban of age-old practice of "trokosi" - sending girls to shrines as slaves to serve priests and protect their family from the gods' anger - Ghanaian authorities prefer to end it by persuasion rather than compulsion