Congo has the globe's highest incidence of rape, with recorded victims ranging from as young as two months to as old as 83 years.

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An estimated 60 percent of Jordanians are of Palestinian origin or descent—including my family.

Israeli officials say that Hamas leaders are operating out of a bunker underneath Gaza's Shifa Hospital.

India's National Population Stabilization Fund has opened a call center where agents answer questions about reproductive health.

In recent weeks, the Ugandan rebel group known as the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has been attacking villages, raping women, abducting children, and leaving hundreds of people dead in north-eastern DR Congo.

The Irish economy has been hit hard and fast by the global economic crisis. Emigration is projected to reach 50,000 in 2009.

As usual, Gaza City's Shifa Hospital is in the center of the chaos.

Walls and checkpoints make it difficult for Palestinians to get to work, so Israel has become reliant on workers from Thailand, the Philippines, China, and Africa.