Mississippi’s C-section problem: A third of low-risk women are undergoing surgery for their first birth – Part 1
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Following The Fuller Project’s reporting, U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) officials added uterine cancer to the list of conditions covered by the government program that monitors and treats those who lived and worked in Ground Zero.
Following our reporting on discriminatory practices in VC funding California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law requiring venture capitalists to disclose the gender and race of the founders they fund.
After investigating the exploitation of women sorters working for the U.S. essential oils company doTERRA, the U.S. has banned imports from Asli Maydi, the Somali company that supplied frankincense oil to the brand, over the use of forced labor.
Fuller Awards
India’s solar power push delivers an unexpected bonus – empowering rural women
- 2024 Developing Asia Journalism Award
“There’s no support” — Undocumented and unemployed in pandemic-era California
- 2024 LA Press Club SoCal Journalism Award
134
years
It will take 134 years to reach full gender equality at the current rate of progress.
(Source: Global Gender Gap Report 2024)
Less than
1%
Less than 1% of news stories in India, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, the UK and the US cover gender equality issues.
(Source: Missing Perspectives Report)
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