Nigerian novelist debuts with story of devastating family tragedy

Identity is a controversially debated topic, as can be seen in a recently published book in Germany

In Ghana, juvenile offenders are kept in prisons for adults which is against the law

Filmmaker Talal Derki ruthlessly shows how children in war-torn Syria are brought up to become jihadists

Many girls in Indonesia are married as teenagers

In rural Malawi, non-governmental activists teach teenage girls to make sanitary pads

Criminal gangs have similar gender dynamics in Bangladesh and China

Violence against women is used to keep them out of public life

A long socialisation process is still needed to make equality between women and men a reality

Award-winning Netflix documentary helps to break the stigma around menstruation