Mountains of electronic waste are being dumped in Ghana. Very little of it is recycled, and most of it ends up in the shanty towns where children search among the discarded rubbish for valuable scrap. The waste can be highly toxic.
Two months after violent riots that left 197 people dead and more than 1,600 wounded in the north-western Chinese province of Xinjiang, tensions are still running high between the Han and Uighur communities.
In France, an estimated 60,000 women have been subjected to female genital mutilation, having been circumcised in secrecy in France or sent back to their family's home country.
Since the Pakistani army launched an offensive against the Taliban in the country's north-west, over 2.5 million civilians have been forced to flee their homes. They now live in makeshift camps, in dire conditions, and often torn from their families.
FRANCE 24's correspondents in the DR Congo, Arnaud Zajtman and Marlene Rabaud, went to the Ugandan border, an area under the control of the Lord's Resistance Army, to investigate the effects of its devastating campaign on civilians.
In a year, New Delhi will host the Commonwealth Games. The city of the "Slumdog Millionaires" is keen to change its image and hide its wretched misery - even if it means trampling its poor in the process.
Christians in today's Pakistan (2% of the population) have paid a high price for being in the minority. In Islamabad, the capital, a community of 5,000 of them live in extreme poverty, literally walled-off from the rest of society.
The former head of China's biggest milk maker was recently condemned to life in prison. However, thousands of plaintiffs who want justice are struggling to get their case examined in court.
In this week's edition, 'Caring' takes you on patrol with a Thai "monk brigade", whose mission is to find and police impostors who cheat people for their donations. It's a lucrative business carried out by bogus Buddhists and former monks.
Europe's Roma people are often the target of discrimination. Last September, a huge Roma camp just outside Paris was cleared. Still, many feel there is more hope in France than back in Romania.
