Human Race

Associated Press/Photo by Chitose Suzuki

RESCUE: In a country once ranked as having the world's highest abortion rate, one Vietnamese man offers hope to unwed mothers. Tong Phuoc Phuc's "abortion orphanage" in the coastal town of Nha Trang provides shelter and food to pregnant women disowned by their families. After giving birth, the mothers can leave their babies in Phuc's care until they can afford to raise them. Phuc has taken in approximately 60 babies in four years and reunited nearly half of them with their mothers.

DETAINED: Iranian authorities arrested an Iranian-American student Oct. 15 on a visit to research women's rights for a master's degree project. Family members say police confiscated 28-year-old Esha Momeni's computer and research materials and are now interrogating her in the notorious Section 209 of Iran's Evin prison.