JAPAN: Youngsters Challenge Taboo around Fathers’ Suicide

When Chiako Matsumura's father killed himself, her family instructed her not to tell anyone the truth about his death.

JAPAN: Youngsters Challenge Taboo around Fathers’ Suicide

When Chiako Matsumura's father killed himself, her family instructed her not to tell anyone the truth about his death.

POPULATION: Advocates say U.S. Refugee Numbers Not Recovering

Tens of thousands of refugees seeking asylum in the United States will remain confined to their camps this year, even though Washington says it has opened its doors for them.

POPULATION-YUGOSLAVIA: Go West, Young Serb

A fifth of Serb university graduates have firm plans to leave, and more than half the rest are looking for the first chance to go.. As young Serbs leave in search for a brighter future abroad, sociologists are calling it "the stampede of generations."

POPULATION: Advocates say U.S. Refugee Numbers Not Recovering

Tens of thousands of refugees seeking asylum in the United States will remain confined to their camps this year, even though Washington says it has opened its doors for them.

POPULATION-YUGOSLAVIA: Go West, Young Serb

A fifth of Serb university graduates have firm plans to leave, and more than half the rest are looking for the first chance to go.. As young Serbs leave in search for a brighter future abroad, sociologists are calling it "the stampede of generations."

RIGHTS-LATIN AMERICA: People Trafficking on the Rise

The trafficking of human beings is a growing global phenomenon that takes on specific characteristics in Latin America and the Caribbean, said participants in a three-day regional conference that ended Friday in the Chilean capital.

THAILAND: Male Sex Workers Face HIV Risks, but Get Less Attention

Bon, 18, says that being in sex work earns him more than enough money for his needs, but he still hopes to do something else in the future.

ECONOMY-JAPAN: Bankrupt Firms Learn from Yesterday’s Mistakes

After the collapse two years ago of the company he was working for, Kazuharu Takeda, 55, faced what he describes as an ''empty future'' and risked being one more addition to Japan's rising number of jobless people.

RIGHTS-LATIN AMERICA: People Trafficking on the Rise

The trafficking of human beings is a growing global phenomenon that takes on specific characteristics in Latin America and the Caribbean, said participants in a three-day regional conference that ended Friday in the Chilean capital.

THAILAND: Male Sex Workers Face HIV Risks, but Get Less Attention

Bon, 18, says that being in sex work earns him more than enough money for his needs, but he still hopes to do something else in the future.

ECONOMY-JAPAN: Bankrupt Firms Learn from Yesterday’s Mistakes

After the collapse two years ago of the company he was working for, Kazuharu Takeda, 55, faced what he describes as an "empty future" and risked being one more addition to Japan's rising number of jobless people.

POPULATION: Japanese-Brazilians Not Happy in their Second Home

Though they are more privileged than other people who have come to Japan for work, immigrants from Latin America feel lonely and alienated and are struggling to fit into a society with whom they have a cultural affinity.

POPULATION: Japanese-Brazilians Not Happy in their Second Home

Though they are more privileged than other people who have come to Japan for work, immigrants from Latin America feel lonely and alienated and are struggling to fit into a society with whom they have a cultural affinity.

ARGENTINA: League of Househusbands Growing Fast

The four-year recession and subsequent rise in unemployment in Argentina have prompted under- and unemployed men to come together in an organisation that aims to instil appreciation of the importance of household and child-rearing responsibilities, and of the need for such duties to be shared by both partners.

BANGLADESH: Anti-HIV/AIDS Efforts Follow Men to the Mosques

Spiritual affairs usually dominate the Friday sermons of Maulana Athikur Rahman at a mosque here in Bangladesh, but these days he touches on religion, life - and risky sexual behaviour.

POPULATION-JAPAN: Small is Beautiful in Elderly Care

Japan's lucrative market for caring for seniors is seeing fast-growing demand for 'group homes', family-size nursing homes that many find more attuned to local traditions of looking after their elderly kin.

ARGENTINA: League of Househusbands Growing Fast

The four-year recession and subsequent rise in unemployment in Argentina have prompted under- and unemployed men to come together in an organisation that aims to instil appreciation of the importance of household and child-rearing responsibilities, and of the need for such duties to be shared by both partners.

POPULATION-JAPAN: Small is Beautiful in Elderly Care

Japan's lucrative market for caring for seniors is seeing fast-growing demand for 'group homes', family-size nursing homes that many find more attuned to local traditions of looking after their elderly kin.

RIGHTS-MEXICO: Uphill Battle for Indigenous Girls to Attend School

Fifteen-year-old Guadalupe from the southern Mexican state of Chiapas had to fight traditions that make it difficult for indigenous girls to get an education, walked many kilometres to attend school, fell ill twice with pneumonia, and suffered malnutrition - but she finished primary school.

RIGHTS-MEXICO: Uphill Battle for Indigenous Girls to Attend School

Fifteen-year-old Guadalupe from the southern Mexican state of Chiapas had to fight traditions that make it difficult for indigenous girls to get an education, walked many kilometres to attend school, fell ill twice with pneumonia, and suffered malnutrition -- but she finished primary school.