Is the tide turning in China? Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore reports on how young couples are thinking about babies.
Onnik Krikorian on the anti-abortion repsonse to Georgia's skewed sex-ratios.
Daily wage-earner Kajri is defying her husband to save her daughter. She confided in Ankita Balloh.
Rajashri Dasgupta explodes a few myths about educated middle-class women in India.
Facts and figures on the missing girls of the world.
How South Korea got back to normal.
Vanessa Baird examines what sex selection is doing to women – and the world.
Diaspora uncles and 'fathers against pirates' were as decisive as the frigates in ending the piracy scourge. Jamal Osman speaks to Hazel Healy.
Girls in Somalia now have a better chance of completing their education. Katharina Wecker explains.
Matthew Newsome meets a social entrepreneur helping India's salt-workers out of the poverty trap.
Migrants have become the scapegoats in financially straitened times, reports Amy Hall.
Dayo Aiyetan and Theophilus Abbah offer a West African take on piracy in the Gulf of Guinea.
A guide to buccaneers, corsairs & privateers throughout the ages.
Piracy is just one in a long list of problems facing seafarers in a cut-throat shipping industry, reports Olivia Swift.
Jatin Dua investigates the ever-blurry line between protector and pirate in coastal Somalia.
Pirate hijackings off the coast of Africa have spawned a lucrative protection industry. With private security guards taking to the oceans in ever increasing numbers, Hazel Healy asks whether this is really the way to ‘safer seas’.
Sofi Lundin reports on the story of the Kashmiri Pandits, a minority group driven from their homes in the beautiful but strife-torn Kashmir Valley.
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