Louise Donovan

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Senior Reporter at Fuller Project for International Reporting

Reporter covering labour and humans rights, words in @TIME, @guardian etc

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Arab States Need More Nurses. African Women Are Paying The Price.

2 weeks ago | fullerproject.org | Louise Donovan

African women who leave home to work as nannies or housekeepers in the Persian Gulf know they’re risking their lives. The influx of reports detailing unpaid wages, sexual assault and – at times – death are impossible to ignore. Nurses, however, garner less attention. As countries like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates expand their healthcare sectors, the demand for migrant care workers is rising. This sounds like good news – employment opportunities are often few and far back home.
AI is transforming the fight against trafficking. Some advocates are raising the alarm

1 month ago | fullerproject.org | Sophia Paffenroth |Erica Hensley |Louise Donovan

When Santander’s artificial intelligence (AI) technology flagged unusual activity on a customer’s account last year, the bank’s staff had no idea it would lead to a human trafficking network being uncovered. On their own, the transactions didn’t look like much. A 34-year-old man was making regular payments to budget airlines, mobile phone providers and Vivastreet and Gumtree, websites that can be used to advertise genuine adult services but also sell everything from cars to computers.
AI Is Fighting Modern Slavery and Sex Crime, for Better or Worse

1 month ago | foreignpolicy.com | Louise Donovan

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Mississippi’s C-section problem: A third of low-risk women are undergoing surgery for their first birth

2 months ago | fullerproject.org | Erica Hensley |Sophia Paffenroth |Louise Donovan |sanket jain

Three hospitals with some of the lowest use of low-risk C-sections in Mississippi vary in almost every way — location, size and type of providers who deliver babies. Wayne General is a small, rural hometown hospital in eastern Mississippi. Baptist DeSoto is a large regional hospital just outside of Memphis. And Singing River is a mid-size hospital network in the southern coastal part of the state that boasts low rates at all three of its delivery locations.
Mississippi’s C-section problem: A third of low-risk women are undergoing surgery for their first birth

2 months ago | fullerproject.org | Erica Hensley |Sophia Paffenroth |Louise Donovan |sanket jain

Warning: This article contains references to suicidal thoughts. If you or someone you know needs help, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988 or text the Crisis Text Line to reach a crisis counselor at 741741. When Jennifer Sloan-Ziegler became pregnant with her first child in 2020, she knew she wanted to experience her inauguration into motherhood with a natural birth.
What will a second Trump presidency mean for women? Advocates are afraid to find out.

Jan 20, 2025 | fullerproject.org | Muktadir Rashid |Maher Sattar |Louise Donovan

Eight years ago, on the day after Donald Trump moved into the White House, millions of women and their supporters donned pink “pussy” hats and marched in cities across the country and the world in a show of force that we now know largely failed. That the Women’s March was the largest single-day protest in American history, with half a million people cramming into the streets of downtown Washington and some 3.5 million marching in other cities and towns, mattered not a whit.
Bangladeshi Women Turned a Movement Into a Revolution. Then They Disappeared.

Jan 16, 2025 | fullerproject.org | Louise Donovan

DHAKA: The turning point came at midnight, when women hit the streets. By mid-July, Bangladeshi university students had been protesting for over a month for the reform of government job quotas, which they said created a nepotistic patronage system that rewarded supporters of the ruling Awami League. But few predicted they would bring down Sheikh Hasina, who had ruled Bangladesh for 15 years with an iron fist.
‘Tip of the iceberg’ - New U.N. data shows spike in exploitation of girls worldwide

Jan 13, 2025 | fullerproject.org | Louise Donovan |Gina Jimenez

Late last year, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s (UNODC) biennial report on human trafficking pointed to a striking shift — female victims appear to be getting younger. Although adult women still make up the vast majority of trafficking victims detected worldwide, in many regions their numbers fell in 2022 compared to 2019.
To Quit Their Jobs, Sugar Workers Risk Kidnapping, Assault and Murder

Nov 20, 2024 | fullerproject.org | Maher Sattar |Allan Olingo |Louise Donovan |Jodi Enda

Donate Groundbreaking reporting on women Email Address* CAPTCHA Economy & Labor , Health , World When his daughter turned 12, Gighe Dutta decided this would be the year that he and his wife quit cutting sugar cane in the fields of western India.
Breaking out of the gender silo, women activists demand demilitarization and the rejection of carbon trading at COP29.

Nov 18, 2024 | fullerproject.org | Allan Olingo |Louise Donovan |Jodi Enda

The role of women in society is at a precarious crossroads. Women have made major strides in recent years, from the pro-abortion rights Green Wave in Latin America to the rise of female political leaders such as Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum. But the U.S. election was a different story — here, the winning candidate was accused of campaigning on a relentlessly misogynistic platform, and his victory threatens to impose U.S. anti-abortion rights restrictions on the rest of the world.

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Articles

Arab States Need More Nurses. African Women Are Paying The Price.

AI is transforming the fight against trafficking. Some advocates are raising the alarm

AI Is Fighting Modern Slavery and Sex Crime, for Better or Worse

Mississippi’s C-section problem: A third of low-risk women are undergoing surgery for their first birth

Mississippi’s C-section problem: A third of low-risk women are undergoing surgery for their first birth

What will a second Trump presidency mean for women? Advocates are afraid to find out.

Bangladeshi Women Turned a Movement Into a Revolution. Then They Disappeared.

‘Tip of the iceberg’ - New U.N. data shows spike in exploitation of girls worldwide

To Quit Their Jobs, Sugar Workers Risk Kidnapping, Assault and Murder

Breaking out of the gender silo, women activists demand demilitarization and the rejection of carbon trading at COP29.

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