Coronavirus: Over 200% Surge In Links To Child Abuse Material Posted Online
Teams of undercover investigators tasked with identifying and removing webpages containing child abuse material have reported a massive spike.
‘Don’t Have to Fight for Pennies’: New Zealand Safety Net Helps Sex Workers in Lockdown
The week before New Zealand went into full lockdown on 26 March, Lana*, 28, had taken a break from work at the high-end Wellington brothel where, since September, she had made around NZ$2,200 a month…
Coronavirus Shutdowns Make Women the Majority of Unemployment Seekers in States Across U.S.
Women filed the majority of new unemployment claims in the weeks after their governors closed schools and workplaces to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Imagine Online School in a Language You Don’t Understand
As COVID-19 shifts classrooms online, remote schooling poses a special challenge for families who are not fluent in English.
‘Grammie’s Taking Food to Other People’: A Trucker Keeps Trucking
Ingrid Brown loves the peace of the night, especially these days. When the sun sets, it’s just her and the road, her truck lights illuminating the highway stretching out ahead. The quiet is “like a…
Sex Workers’ Dilemma amid Covid-19
At 6:30pm every evening, Emelda Ngieno’s alarm clock buzzes her out of a deep sleep. As the sun sets, she gets up, throws on tonight’s chosen outfit and heads to her designated location: Pipeline, a…
Iran’s Nurses Are Martyrs to Trump’s Maximum Pressure
Dozens of nurses have been infected with COVID-19, in part as a result of restrictions imposed by the Trump administration.
Experts Apply Lessons From Ebola to Ensure Girls Return to School Post-Pandemic
In April of 2015, after Ebola ravaged Sierra Leone and paralyzed West Africa, schools finally began reopening. Thousands of children eagerly returned to school after nine months stuck at home, but 13-year-old Isatu and her…
‘The Reality Is, It’s Incredibly Hard’
Shelly Hughes’s typical day starts at 9 p.m. She’s used to not wanting to get out of bed and go to work, but now the feeling is much stronger. Her son, home from college because…
‘There’s No Backup’: Single Moms on Quarantining with Kids
I started taking the pandemic seriously when schools closed. I’ve never seen day-to-day life change so drastically for so many Americans. Friends began posting pictures with their kids online, with #homeschooling. I couldn’t help but…
Kenya’s Labor Market Wasn’t Made for a Pandemic
NAIROBI—For the past week, every morning, Akonya Shimeseru wakes up in her single-room home that she shares with her two children in Ongata Rongai, a town on the outskirts of Nairobi.
Breaking: Some States Show Alarming Spike in Women’s Share of Unemployment Claims
Statistics obtained by The Fuller Project from several states show that the share of people who filed new unemployment claims who were women during the last two weeks of March surged from an estimated 13…
Coronavirus Locks Down the Philippines, but Children Face Threat of Online Abuse
Wearing pajamas and a pair of plastic slip-on shoes, the 12-year-old girl crouched in a doorway and texted a friend to say she’d run away. It was raining, and the mud stuck to her flip-flops…
Coronavirus threatens an already strained maternal health system
On Wednesday, March 18, 28-year-old Latoyha Young and her mother, Thomasina Hayten, rushed to Sutter Health Hospital in Sacramento, believing that Young was in labor. Hospital staff sent her home — she wasn’t far enough…
For Abused Women, a Pandemic Lockdown Holds Dangers of Its Own
Early last week, as the novel coronavirus exploded from state to state, a woman called the National Domestic Violence Hotline in a crisis: Her partner had tried to strangle her and she needed medical help,…
When You’re Pregnant During a Pandemic
On February 27, I summited Mount Kilimanjaro and immediately had a desperate urge to pee. I should have known then, squatting in the snow next to the sign marking the summit, that I was pregnant.…
“I’m Homeless—How Can I Self-Quarantine?”
Across from two of the tall, unnervingly skinny palm trees Los Angeles is known for, there is a light blue bungalow in a row of neat, single-story structures. After a historically dry winter, the city…
‘You Are Beautiful’: the Kenyan Beauty Parlour Serving Female Heroin Users
Naima Said stands back and studies her handiwork. “Not quite,” the self-taught beauty therapist mumbles, her forehead furrowed in frustration. Then she delicately dabs her client’s eyelid with a squishy makeup sponge. She’s not finished…
