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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 long-term health problems and debts they can’t pay.

Megha Rajagopalan & Qadri Inzamam, March 24, 2024 Read the full article

Woman wearing a scarf and along pink shirt with the words "Acceptance by all family members" and "A single day off" over her body

Domestic Workers in Gulf Countries Vent Woes on TikTok

Foreign employees in wealthy households — most of them women — have been using the video-sharing app to bring abuses to light.

Louise Donovan, April 26, 2021 Read the full article

Demonstrators in Manila holding a poster with 'Keep Pemberton in jail' written on it; more posters in the background.

He Killed a Transgender Woman in the Philippines. Why Was He Freed?

The pardon of U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Joseph Scott Pemberton by President Rodrigo Duterte is the final chapter in a case that reignited debate over old defense treaties.

Corinne Redfern, September 17, 2020 Read the full article

Sketch of a nurse wearing a green hijab and mask, testing for covid19 virus with elderly patients in the background; people in wheelchairs

The Pathologist: She Confronts the Virus From Inside Nursing Homes

Jenna Krajeski, July 13, 2020 Read the full article

An Ethiopian domestic worker sits among personal belongings, waiting in front of the Ethiopian Consulate outside Beirut, where she and others were abandoned by their Lebanese employers last month.

Laid Off and Locked Up: Virus Traps Domestic Workers in Arab States

Louise Donovan and Ben Hubbard, July 6, 2020 Read the full article

Brittney Cooper, author of Eloquent Rage, wearing a black jacket with a smile.

Author Brittney Cooper on Harnessing Rage, Right Now

The writer of ‘Eloquent Rage’ and Rutgers University scholar discusses the shared anger of black women in the nationwide protests for racial justice.

Malcolm Burnley, June 20, 2020 Read the full article

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This Nurse is Leading the Fight for Safer Hospitals

Rikha Sharma Rani, June 9, 2020 Read the full article

Imagine Online School in a Language You Don’t Understand

As COVID-19 shifts classrooms online, remote schooling poses a special challenge for families who are not fluent in English.

Rikha Sharma Rani, April 22, 2020 Read the full article

What the World Loses if Turkey Destroys the Syrian Kurds

Amid crackdowns on supporters of the Kurdish movement in Turkey, Kurdish Syria became the heart of the greater Kurdish movement.

Jenna Krajeski , October 14, 2019 Read the full article

Homes to Heal Trafficked Children

In Miami, a program designed for trafficked foster youth is showing promise.

Rikha Sharma Rani, June 19, 2019 Read the full article

Dangers of Being an Afghan Woman in Uniform

Inside the expensive and complicated NATO campaign to get more women into the Afghan security forces, and keep them alive.

Sophia Jones, October 5, 2018 Read the full article

The Dangers of Forcing Gender Equality in Afghanistan

The idea of supporting measures that expand gender equality seems like an easy call. But, as one Afghan woman's story shows, bolstering the ranks of women in security forces in a country like Afghanistan is not a simple numbers game.

Sophia Jones, November 21, 2017 Read the full article

‘You Cannot Have Peace If You Don’t Listen to Women’

Burundian activist Marie Louise hopes to help stop the bloodshed in Burundi, a country teetering on the edge of genocide.

Rossalyn Warren, March 21, 2017 Read the full article