FGM: girl-children of Dawoodi Bohra sect are the only Muslim women in India systematically and forcefully mutilated.

FGM: girl-children of Dawoodi Bohra sect are the only Muslim women in India systematically and forcefully mutilated.

Stuck in impoverished conditions with no resources, maternal health among India’s tea tribes is faltering.

Iraq aims to remove all remaining landmines by 2018, but new explosives laid by ISIL fighters have stymied progress.

Despite the YPG’s commitment to demobilise underage fighters, many have still found their way into combat.
![International law prohibits the use of children as participants in direct hostilities [Sophie Cousins/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/201412814653232734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Inoculation campaigns have faced massive challenges amid the country’s plummeting security situation.
![Doctors said they had to work against rumours that vaccination was toxic [AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/2014112381317790734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Despite a lack of safety gear and medical training, injured fighters are determined to return to the front lines.
![Doctors say many injuries could be avoided if fighters wore body armour and helmets, but they choose not to [EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/20141021104719295734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Lebanese campaign to save water amid a shortage is unlikely to work without government regulation, experts say.
![More than 80 percent of farmers in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley said they face water shortages this year [AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/20148221052348734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Iraqi families have sought shelter at a refugee camp near the country’s Kurdish region, after fleeing major violence.

Wounded Iraqi civilians have flocked to hospitals under fire from Islamic State fighters and government forces.
![The Iraqi air force struck Fallujah General Hospital with barrel bombs, a type of IED dropped from aircraft [AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/20148284155521734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
The group’s takeover of farms in Qaraqosh, 30km from Mosul, has caused fear among residents, and a jump in food prices.
![Iraqi farmer Tawfiq Abbosh Jubbo Sakat says Islamic State fighters stole all his cows [Sophie Cousins/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/2014728114939530734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)