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After Namibia swore in its first female president, we asked the experts: What difference do women leaders make?

After Namibia swore in Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah as president, we asked the experts: What difference do women leaders make?

Laying the foundations for the next decade at The Fuller Project

This week, I announced that some members of staff will leave The Fuller Project as part of necessary changes within our newsroom. While the volatility of the funding landscape can only be ignored at one’s…

American conservatives’ latest safari — an anti-women, anti-LGBTQ tour of Africa

Earlier this month, the Africa Christian Professionals Forum, a membership-based organization whose stated mission is to build “a society that upholds our Biblical values,” put on the Pan-African Conference on Family Values in Nairobi, Kenya. …

Gendered Violence Under Authoritarian Rule: What I learned from women’s rights defenders 

Lessons learned from women's rights defenders at the Oslo Freedom Forum

Can South Korean politics make way for it’s ‘Light Stick Revolutionaries?’

Korean women have helped topple governments but still have trouble gaining political office.

AI girlfriends, sex robots and sexism — Laura Bates on the new tech-driven misogyny

Author Laura Bates says misogyny is baked into the design of AI, and a new wave of sexual violence is already here.

Europe’s onlyfans performers can’t get justice

Jana was in the business of making women feel sexy. She ran a successful beauty salon in Slovakia, but suddenly, COVID-19 struck. Forced to close her salon’s doors, Jana found herself like so many: locked…

A backlash in Bangladesh

“I don’t think any other commission’s report has gotten so much attention,” says Maheen Sultan, one of the members of Bangladesh’s women’s affairs reform commission. It’s hard to disagree. Sultan’s commission was set up by…

Why disinformation in the media is as much a human problem as a tech one

The disinformation debate has coalesced around technology, but often ignores age-old factors like misogyny, racism and homophobia.

Reporter’s Notebook: One Woman Who Dares To Speak Out

I’ve been writing for decades about America’s on-again-off-again support for the reproductive health care of women around the world, focusing on the Republican presidents who have slashed funding and jeopardized women’s lives. During that time, I’ve interviewed…

The U.N. has been a key space for feminist organizing. As the U.S. turns away, activists ask what next

While tariffs are making headlines, Trump 2.0 is also upending the results of decades of international collaboration at the United Nations.  The U.S. stood firm against a strong push by advocacy groups to get those attending the…

‘Urgent action is needed to safeguard the lives of women and children’

VYONGWANI, KENYA – Mwaka Chimera sits on a worn-out leather couch outside her two-roomed house in Vyongwani village, in southeastern Kenya, cradling her newborn daughter.  “I dropped out of primary school, and for my first…

The U.S. aid freeze: Counting the global cost of chaos

As the end date of the Trump administration’s foreign aid ‘stop-work’ order approaches, just how dependent were women and girls around the world on the U.S.? The Fuller Project dives into the data to find…

The Long Road to Justice for Sexual War Crimes

Sexual violence in Sudan is common. Accountability isn’t.

CSW69 — Women’s Rights at a Crossroads

As leaders gather for CSW69 three decades after the Beijing Declaration, will commitments turn into action, or will hard-won gains be lost?

The mission hasn’t changed: Remaining focused when all the world seems to be on fire

Amidst an onslaught of harm, we have to rethink how we go about pursuing our mission. Yet our work feels more vital than ever.

‘It’s which door she walks through’: How provider preference and hospital culture drive C-section rates

A third of low-risk women in Mississippi are undergoing surgery for their first birth — far beyond the WHO’s max rate of 15%

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?
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