"Some of the common challenges that I've seen with low-income people in the US, who don't have access to legal help, is that they really live in fear of their freedom and existence for two reasons: because the law is often convoluted with legal jargon, making it very intimidating, and then also attorneys can be very expensive." Watch how Samantha Akwei saved a man's live.

23 million girls in India drop out of school every year due to lack of menstrual health, awareness and hygiene. This is due to the fact that most women still believe that periods are a curse due to the societal stigma. Educator Radhika Dhingra has been educating women about sexual health and mestruation in the state of Maharashtra, India.

"To save our oceans, we need to go out and see, love and respect it." Jeremy Antoine Raguain

Globally, one in seven 10-19-year-olds experiences a mental disorder, accounting for 13% of the global burden of disease in this age group. Educator Fatima-Zahra Maelainin gives tips on how to improve mental health starting from the classrooms.

Khalil Radi travelled to Nicaragua in 2018 to fulfil his dream of living in a bungalow and surfing every day. His plans changed when he discovered the beaches were littered with plastic bottles. Determined to do something about it, he initially thought of organizing a trash collection, but the locals told him they had bigger problems. 10/08/2020

Zahera Harb, a senior lecturer at City University of London, wounded her face during Beirut’s explosion last Tuesday. With at least 137 people killed, 5,000 wounded and hundreds still missing, the Lebanese journalist says that the government has made no plans yet to help the hundreds of thousands of people left homeless and without food supplies. 06/08/2020

Montreux was supposed to be welcoming thousands of jazz fans. Instead the town will be unusually quiet, with devastating consequences for local businesses. But as correspondent Greta Ruffino discovers, it’s not all doom and gloom. Smaller events have been organized, including a concert to promote Swiss musicians.

Four years after Swiss illustrator Jared Muralt began work on “The Fall,” the comic book series is suddenly getting a lot more attention with the publication of his second volume. Coinciding with the coronavirus lockdown in Switzerland, it tells the story of a man holed up with his two children after a devastating pandemic. If that sounds familiar, the similarities to the Covid-19 crisis end there.

Cartoonists have never shied away from dealing with the most delicate social and political issues of the day, and the coronavirus pandemic has been no different. Caroline Rutz and Carlo Schneider have taken on the crisis with biting wit—especially where they’ve seen political wrongdoing—but also with empathy and humor.

Swiss-Brazilian Gabriela de Paula was visiting her mother in Sao Paolo when the coronavirus lockdown started, but instead of returning home to Switzerland, she decided to stay and lend a helping hand in the impoverished favelas by distributing care packages with food and hygiene products. Her efforts became one of the founding pillars of the new Save2020.org movement, an initiative that aims to highlight good deeds during the crisis and that CNNMoney Switzerland is supporting.

Italy may look to ease some of its lockdown restrictions this month as evidence grows that the country has overcome the worst of the coronavirus epidemic. That’s an unsettling prospect for Filippo Testa, an anesthesiologist at a northern Italian hospital who has experienced the virus firsthand. He says countries must coordinate any relaxation of measures imposed to contain the virus.

Hundreds of volunteers with Caravane de Solidarité at the Patinoire des Vernets in Geneva have been distributing food and hygiene products and offering social services to thousands of people in need. Many are undocumented workers who lost their jobs amid coronavirus lockdowns. The initiative is part of the Save2020.org movement, which is supported by CNNMoney Switzerland.

The chocolate-covered marshmallow treats known in German-speaking Switzerland as Mohrenkoepfe, or Moor heads, are at the center of a debate over racial stereotyping. Some stores of the largest Swiss retail brand, Migros, have pulled the classic confection from shelves in response to complaints about the name.

Mattia De Angelis, 29, urges people not to underestimate the ruthlessness of coronavirus. “They need to take all of this very seriously,” he said via Skype from Cavalese Hospital in northern Italy, where he has been battling COVID-19-induced pneumonia for almost 10 days.

Outpatient medical practices open today as part of the Federal Council decision to ease the lockdown around Switzerland. According to Yannick Hallemans, osteopath at BodyLab in Zurich, his business lost almost 95 percent of revenue the past six weeks since the practice was available only for patients with severe conditions.

For Swiss watchmakers, the coronavirus crisis in China has been a double whammy. Not only has it hit sales in a major market, but it has also disrupted supplies of components, says Oliviero Pesenti, director of Erbas. The Swiss producer of watch parts says the industry is too dependent on China for its own good. 12/03/2020