Women and Power: New rankings show stark geographical divide within the U.S.
To no one’s surprise, D.C. tops the list when it comes to women with power and influence. Can it withstand the new administration’s attacks?
Arab States Need More Nurses. African Women Are Paying The Price.
A new report reveals migrant caregivers from Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda battle exploitative working conditions, including racial discrimination and violence.
“Wages for Housework” — new book traces history of women’s fight against working for free
In the seventies, feminists around the world fought to recognize housework as work. Today, women are still doing more than three-quarters of the world’s unpaid labor.
To Quit Their Jobs, Sugar Workers Risk Kidnapping, Assault and Murder
Why would anyone stay in a job where abuse is rampant and women are coerced into hysterectomies? Because the cost of escaping India’s cane fields is often even higher.
U.S. blocks imports from former doTERRA frankincense supplier over forced labor
The U.S. has issued a ban on imports of frankincense from a Somaliland company over forced labor practices exposed by a Fuller Project investigation.
Behind the Scenes: Why Politicians Ignore Abuses in India’s Sugar Farms: They Run It
Earlier this year, our investigation with The New York Times into Maharashtra’s sugar cane farms revealed a brutal system of debt bondage that controls women’s lives from early adolescence — and has resulted in thousands getting coerced…
Why Politicians Ignore Abuses in India’s Sugar Industry: They Run It
Politicians run most of the mills in the state of Maharashtra. They deny or downplay evidence of coerced hysterectomies, debt bondage and child labor in the fields.
Diamonds Brought Prosperity to Botswana. Women Workers Are Paying A Heavy Price.
An investigation by The Fuller Project and New Lines has found numerous violations of standards at De Beers’ partner companies, including filthy workplaces and sexual harassment
The Increasingly Front-Line Role of Ukrainian Women
How war has—and hasn’t—transformed the country’s gender dynamics.
Suppliers to top essential oil brand left unpaid and afraid after abuse inquiry
Women who sorted frankincense told to change their story ‘or face consequences’ in doTERRA’s investigation.
Kenya, others risk erasing slow progress in reducing ‘period poverty’
After leading the world in nixing taxes on period products, Kenya lawmakers tried to push through a back-door tax that ignited protests.
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.
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.
East Africa’s second-hand clothes markets – a major source of work for women – are under threat
How Uganda used clothes (Mitumba) traders are struggling to survive under the weight of changing domestic and foreign policies.
Reporter’s Notebook: How heat impacts fashion’s global workers
From floods to rising temperatures, workers in fast fashion’s global supply chain are on the frontlines of climate change
Fast fashion is one of the world’s most polluting industries. Its global workforce is paying the price.
Around the world, fashion’s mostly female labor force are grappling with working conditions made increasingly unbearable and unhealthy by climate change.
Tea companies have agreed to slow mechanization after Kenya protests – but for how long?
As automation hits women’s jobs, unions in Kenya fight back.
New Hope for Pakistan’s Mistreated Workers
Germany’s new Supply Chain Act could help curb some of the world’s worst labor injustices.
