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The Fuller Project and Kenya’s the Nation newspaper partner on key reporting about gender and issues affecting women. This reporting is published online as well as in the recently launched gender pullout section “The Voice,” published monthly in print in Nation.

Climate change puts more women at risk for domestic violence

Extreme weather events that climate change is making more frequent and more intense are also pushing up violence against women around the world.

Disha Shetty, January 3, 2023 Read the full article

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A toxic trash site in Kenya is making women sick

As rubbish piles up on a vast dumpsite, the women who sift through it for their livelihood are suffering reproductive health problems that scientists say have been overlooked.

Louise Donovan & Moraa Obiria, June 2, 2022 Read the full article

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Financial Pandemic: As living costs spiral in Kenya, a mother sacrifices to spare family from ‘dire times’

With food prices soaring to over 12% over the past year, the economic repercussions of the pandemic are being heavily felt across Kenya. Women are particularly vulnerable.

Agatha Gichana, May 20, 2022 Read the full article

Financial Pandemic: ‘Sri Lanka is not a country for poor people now’

Sri Lanka's economic crisis has permeated all aspects of life for Read Feroza Hussein, who lives on the outskirts of the nation's capital.

Rathindra Kuruwita, May 20, 2022 Read the full article

Financial Pandemic: A Lima woman is fighting to feed her community as food prices soar

Asencia Tuamana, 55, started “Bello Horizonte,” a communal kitchen, in September 2020 to share resources during a nationwide lockdown that left millions of Peruvians with no income.

Jimena Ledgard, May 20, 2022 Read the full article

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‘Men’s Violence Will Outlive The Coronavirus’ — Push To End Global Spike In Abuse Against Women Amid the Pandemic

With half of the world’s population living under lockdown, millions of women around the world were trapped with an abusive partner.

Louise Donovan, December 12, 2020 Read the full article

‘We know it’s the work of quack doctors’: Pandemic fans the flames of backstreet abortions in Kenya

Anecdotal reports suggest teenage pregnancies are soaring in Kenya, resulting in unsafe late-term terminations and abandoned babies.

Louise Donovan & Nasibo Kabale, November 23, 2020 Read the full article

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COVID-19 has stopped everything except cancer — the cells are still growing

Globally, millions of women have missed breast cancer screening appointments because of paused services during the height of the pandemic in March and April. This means thousands of cancer cases could lie undetected.

Louise Donovan, October 26, 2020 Read the full article

Women Were Key to Eradicating Wild Polio in Africa. But Can They Do the Same for COVID?

How do governments and the wider medical community successfully immunise the entire world against COVID-19? The answer might just lie with women, who played an enormous role in eradicating wild polio across Africa.

Jessica Washington & Louise Donovan, October 22, 2020 Read the full article

After Escaping Abuse in the Middle East, Domestic Workers’ Woes Are Far From Over in this Pandemic

The pandemic and resulting economic crises have led tens of thousands of migrant workers around the world to return to their home countries

Louise Donovan & Moraa Obiria, September 3, 2020 Read the full article

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In Wake of Beirut’s Devastating Blast, Stranded Kenyan Domestic Workers Demand Repatriation

An estimated 30 women - at least three with children - took to the streets to protest. They are sleeping outside the Kenyan consular on mattresses with little food or water.

Louise Donovan, August 12, 2020 Read the full article

Seeking a decent life for domestic workers

As the head of the National Domestic Workers Council of Kudheiha, a trade union that advocates for Kenyan workers’ rights, she is the first point of contact for women’s pleas across the country and beyond.

Louise Donovan, July 16, 2020 Read the full article

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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 crowded estate in Nairobi’s Eastlands.

Angela Oketch & Louise Donovan , April 17, 2020 Read the full article

Meet Beauty Therapist Saving Female Heroin Addicts

Housed in the Reachout Centre Trust, which helps Mombasa residents fight drug addiction, it opened last year with a view to attracting more female users to its services that include HIV testing, counselling, methadone treatment and cervical cancer screening.

Louise Donovan, February 25, 2020 Read the full article

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The Movement Tackling Sexual Harassment at Kenya’s Universities

Diana perched on a brown bench in one of Nairobi University's large lecture theatres, twisting her fingers into pretzel-like shapes. She scanned the room. To her left, students waited eagerly to hear her story. To her right, an open window - the banner on the wall below gently flapped in the breeze.

Louise Donovan, January 29, 2020 Read the full article

A poster in a protest that says 'Fight Today For A Better Tomorrow'

Gender Activists in a March Dubbed Usawa Demand Action Against GBV, Youth Empowerment, Women Land Rights

The march dubbed Usawa kicked-off at Uhuru Park’s freedom corner to President’s Uhuru Kenyatta’s office at Harambee House, where they delivered a petition on gender equality.

Louise Donovan, January 17, 2020 Read the full article

Trafficked Nepali, Indian Women Repatriated

Five women from Nepal and India who had been trafficked into the country were repatriated to their home countries this week.

Louise Donovan, December 20, 2019 Read the full article

One-Fifth of Women Don’t Know if Abortion Is Illegal in Kenya, New Study Shows

A new study by Marie Stopes Kenya showed that 20.7 per cent of women seeking abortion services in Nairobi “do not know” whether the process is illegal.

Louise Donovan, December 14, 2019 Read the full article

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