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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.

BBC Tea exposé: Lobby groups want alleged abuser out of tea board elections

John Chebochok is contesting an election on June 28, as regional director of the Kenya Tea Development Agency.

Allan Olingo, June 28, 2024 Read the full article

East Africa’s Finance Bills deal heavy blow to women’s wallets

Proposed tax measures in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania on sanitary pads, diapers, second-hand clothes, and fuel will disproportionately burden women, especially those running informal businesses or from low-income households.

Allan Olingo, June 24, 2024 Read the full article

While many Black women in US abandon hair relaxers linked to cancer, sales climb in African countries

The companies at the center of thousands of U.S. lawsuits produce some of Africa’s most popular chemical straighteners like Dark & Lovely and TCB Naturals.

Susan Smith Richardson & Agatha Gichana, April 10, 2024 Read the full article

India has made remarkable progress cutting maternal deaths. Could climate change pose a threat?

Severe seasonal water shortages are forcing hospitals in India to close their doors to women in labor, raising fears that maternal health gains could be threatened.

Cheena Kapoor, December 19, 2023 Read the full article

Women workers at high risk from automation

In Kenya’s tea plantations, labor activists say thirty thousand women have lost their jobs as a result of automation — they represent a broader global trend, with experts saying women are more likely than men to be automated out of a job.

Allan Olingo & Muktadir Rashid, October 21, 2023 Read the full article

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

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