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The Brutality of Sugar: Debt, Child Marriage and Hysterectomies

This story was produced and published in collaboration with The New York Times. Archana Ashok Chaure has given her life to sugar. She was married off to a sugar cane laborer in western India at about ...
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Afghan women take their own lives as despair grows under Taliban rule

The brother of Roya, a young Afghan woman who died by suicide, visits her grave in Herat city in December of 2022. (For Zan Times and The Fuller Project) Warning: This article contains references to ...
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A toxic trash site in Kenya is making women sick

Across the globe, an informal network of waste pickers are recovering more recyclable material than formal systems of waste management. Many governments and world health authorities widely acknowledge ...
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‘I’m scared every damn day’: In the Philippines, violence shadows trans lives

At least 50 transgender or gender nonbinary individuals have been murdered across the archipelago since 2010 — but the real death toll is likely much higher. There is currently no national legislation ...
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East Africa’s second-hand clothes markets – a major source of work for women – are under threat

A trader displays used clothes for sale at her stall at Owino market in Kampala, Uganda in April 2024. (Esther Mbambazi for The Fuller Project). At Kampala’s sprawling Owino market, Millicent Mukwezi ...
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Behind the Scenes: Why Politicians Ignore Abuses in India’s Sugar Farms: They Run It

Jaywant Sugars Ltd. in Karad, India, before the start of the sugar season, in September. (Saumya Khandelwal for The New York Times) Earlier this year, our investigation with The New York Times into ...
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Climate change puts more women at risk for domestic violence

Extreme weather events like floods, storms and droughts are becoming more frequent and more severe as the world warms. That is pushing up domestic violence. Scientists say the evidence linking climate ...
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India’s solar power push delivers an unexpected bonus – empowering rural women

Geeta Devi Gujjar (in center) sits with Lad Devi (left) and Durga Devi (right) at the Dooni dairy in Rajasthan, India. (Photo by Rebecca Conway for The Fuller Project) It is only 9 a.m., but already ...
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In the Sundarban, climate change has an unlikely effect — on child sex-trafficking

Afza walks with her two children near their home, a shared living space in Basanti block that frequently floods to knee-deep heights. Her husband has been unable to find work in the Sundarbans, where ...
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To Quit Their Jobs, Sugar Workers Risk Kidnapping, Assault and Murder

Prahlad Pawar, 34, right, with his wife, Pushpa Pawar, 31, in Kolgaon, western India. The Pawars say their employer made them work as his personal servants in the off-season. They eventually escaped, ...
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Can the Climate Tech Revolution Avoid Leaving Women Behind?

Co-published with The Guardian. When AV Bourke shows up at her job site, she’s one of only two women on the ground — out of about fifteen workers installing solar panels. Bourke is a SolarCorps ...
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Eating last and least: Widening gender hunger gap raises climate alarm

Women have always eaten “last and least,” suffering from hunger and malnutrition far more often than men. The hunger gap between the genders had shrunk in recent decades—but two global challenges ...