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The Finns’ cardboard box prompts an African graduate to develop a life-saving device for babies.

Refugees run the border crossing gauntlet of lions, rivers, rape and theft hoping for a better life.

Few governments are prepared to care for the people forced to leave their countries as a result of conflict or climate change. Here's why.

This is an ode to the women whose names made it into news outlets between 2018 and 2020. It’s also a tribute to those who didn’t – the faceless, nameless women whose stories will remain untold. This project is a collaboration among Bhekisisa, Media Hack and the Canon Collins Trust.

Find out which nordic nation radically cut teenage smoking, drinking and drug use and how they did it.

Autistic children experience the world differently, but this doesn’t stop them from learning.

Angelina might just have saved a life. But is there science to prove it?

Community workers are twiddling their thumbs while the state drags its heels on a new strategy, writes Mia Malan.

Women in Somaliland are working together with an NGO to eliminate one of the most ancient and extreme practices of female genital mutilation.

The substances that cause cancer leave their fingerprints behind. Now, the world may be closer than ever to unravelling the clues hidden in our DNA.

They thought they were signing up for a dream but it turned out to be a trafficking nightmare.

Crime stats released in 2015 reported a drop in rape cases, but experts say this is because fewer people are bothering to report rapes to the police.

Go inside the international network of women willing to break the law to give people access to termination of pregnancy services.

In a binge-drinking community parents often give their children alcohol, or they get it in the womb.

This doctor returned to his home town to live, love and heal.

When bringing a new life into the world risks taking another, even old traditions have to adopt new ways.