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Guttmacher study reckons with damage done by Trump-era restrictions on women in Ethiopia, Uganda

Donald Trump’s restrictions tied to health aid have had repercussions far beyond abortion, says a new study by the Guttmacher Institute.

by Jodi Enda

This article was republished from a Fuller Project newsletter on May 20, 2024. Subscribe here.

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

by Louise Donovan

This article was republished from a Fuller Project newsletter on May 6, 2024. Subscribe here.

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.

by Snigdha Poonam, Albert Oppong-Ansah, Louise Donovan

This story is published in partnership with Grist

As the Taliban step up restrictions, women face a total ban from working in the media industry

Once a thriving presence on air, Afghan women are now at risk of being banned entirely from working in media after latest Taliban warning.

by Zahra Nader

This article was republished from a Fuller Project newsletter on April 29, 2024. Subscribe here.

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.

by Allan Olingo

This article was republished from a Fuller Project newsletter on April 15, 2024. Subscribe here.

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.

by Agatha Gichana, Susan Smith Richardson

This story is published in partnership with The Examination, BONews, Capital B, The Guardian and Nation Media Group.

New Hope for Pakistan’s Mistreated Workers

Germany’s new Supply Chain Act could help curb some of the world’s worst labor injustices.

by Louise Donovan

Co-published with Foreign Policy

Reporter’s Notebook: Debt, hysterectomies and child marriage — what working in the sugar-cane industry means for Indian women

Debt, hysterectomies and child marriage -- what working in the sugar-cane industry means for Indian women.

by Qadri Inzamam

This article was republished from a Fuller Project newsletter on March 25, 2024. Subscribe here.

The Brutality of Sugar: Debt, Child Marriage and Hysterectomies

Women working on India’s sugarcane farms are having expensive and medically unnecessary hysterectomies so they can work uninterrupted - a practice that keeps sugar flowing to Coke, Pepsi and Cadbury, but leaves its victims with…

by Qadri Inzamam, Megha Rajagopalan

This story was produced and published in collaboration with The New York Times.

The Global Cost of the American Anti-Abortion Movement

Conservatives have not limited their attack on reproductive rights to the United States. They’ve been busy imposing their will on other countries, too—with disastrous consequences for millions of poor women.

by Jodi Enda

Co-published with The New Republic

From South Korea’s feminists to the secret beauty salons of Afghanistan, read women’s inspiring stories from around the world

We’ve teamed up with 14 international news outlets to shed light on the most pressing issues facing women globally.

by Louise Donovan

This article was republished from a Fuller Project newsletter on March 4, 2024. Subscribe here.

Iran’s New—Even Worse—Hijab Era Has Begun

On the eve of parliamentary elections, nationwide protests have ended—and a misogynist backlash is just beginning.

by the pseudonym of a journalist in Iran., Tooba Moshiri, the pseudonym of a journalist in Iran, Saqi Nassiri

Co-published with Foreign Policy

Reporter’s Notebook: From bombings to blackouts — why the story of Gaza’s war widows was a reporting challenge like no other

Our reporters talk about the unique challenges they faced to tell the stories of Gaza’s war widows.

by Neha Wadekar

This article was republished from a Fuller Project newsletter on January 29, 2024. Subscribe here.

‘A wake-up call’: After alleged metaverse rape, calls to protect women and girls grow

Sexual assault and harassment are largely unregulated in virtual reality, despite rising reports of psychological harm caused by rape in the metaverse.

by Louise Donovan

This article was republished from a Fuller Project newsletter on January 22, 2024. Subscribe here.

For the first time in decades, there are no women on China’s top leadership team

Dr. Leta Hong Fincher, speaks on the lack of women leaders in China’s President Xi Jinping's Politburo.

by Claire Cozens

China announced on Wednesday that its population fell for the second year running, in part because of record low birthrates.

Nearly nine years after it abandoned its one-child policy, China’s population is both shrinking and aging, posing an economic challenge to its leaders. They have sought to address this by urging women to have more children even at the expense of education and careers, and that’s worrying feminists.

As China specialist Dr. Leta Hong Fincher told us in a 2022 interview, the Chinese Communist Party has long seen women’s growing educational attainment “as a kind of threat”, because they were less likely to marry early and have children.

Here is her interview, first published in October 2022.