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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?
    by Allan Olingo

    This story was originally published in Fuller Project’s newsletter — sign up for your weekly dose here.

    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…
    by Eliza Anyangwe

    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. …
    by Allan Olingo

    This story was originally published in Fuller Project’s newsletter — sign up for your weekly dose here.

    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
    by Melissa Mahtani

    This story was originally published in Fuller Project’s newsletter — sign up for your weekly dose here.

    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.
    by Hawon Jung

    This article was co-published with Foreign Policy.

    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.
    by Louise Donovan

    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…
    by Apolena Rychlikova, Mayya Chernboylskaya, Kristina Böhmer, Polina Bachlakova

    This article was originally co-published with Foreign Policy.

    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…
    by Maher Sattar

    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.
    by Eliza Anyangwe

    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…
    by Jodi Enda

    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…
    by Maher Sattar

    ‘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…
    by Claire Provost, Allan Olingo, Jodi Enda

    Co-published with Nation.

    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…
    by Claire Provost, Allan Olingo, Jodi Enda

    Co-published with Ms Magazine. 

    The Long Road to Justice for Sexual War Crimes

    Sexual violence in Sudan is common. Accountability isn’t.
    by Neha Wadekar

    Co-published with Foreign Policy.

    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?
    by Allan Olingo

    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.
    by Eliza Anyangwe

    ‘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%
    by Erica Hensley

    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?
    by Jodi Enda
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