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Dec 9, 2024 | 
fullerproject.org | Qadri Inzamam |Megha Rajagopalan |Saumya Khandelwal
Tomorrow marks the end of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, the centerpiece of a United Nations-led campaign that aims to end violence against women in all forms. But in Kenya, activists are reflecting on why their efforts seem to be going nowhere. Nearly a year after more than 10,000 women and activists flooded Nairobi’s streets as part of the #EndFemicide protests that swept the country, the crisis has only deepened.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
fullerproject.org | Allan Olingo |Qadri Inzamam |Megha Rajagopalan
When the Taliban imposed a ban on women studying nursing and midwifery last week, they shut down the last remaining avenue for them to train for a profession. Many of the young women now barred from their classrooms had switched from other subjects, seeing this as their only opportunity to remain in school.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
fullerproject.org | Qadri Inzamam |Megha Rajagopalan |Saumya Khandelwal |Maher Sattar
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to oversee the nation’s health system, worries the medical establishment for many reasons: his advocacy for raw milk, embrace of unproven supplements and, most of all, his rejection of vaccines. Kennedy’s attacks on one vaccine in particular could specifically endanger women. The human papillomavirus, or HPV, vaccine has been demonstrated to prevent cervical cancer.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Qadri Inzamam |Megha Rajagopalan
7 hours agoFugitive Kaitlin Armstrong caught after answering ad for a yoga instructorThis story previously aired on Jan. 27, 2024. Kaitlin Armstrong is serving 90 years in prison for murdering professional up-and-coming gravel cyclist Anna Moriah "Mo" Wilson. It's a story that drew international headlines because after being suspected of killing Wilson in Texas, Armstrong vanished …7 hours agoSherri Papini Was Found Alive 8 Years Ago.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
telegraphindia.com | Qadri Inzamam |Megha Rajagopalan
Why would anyone stay in a job where abuse is rampant and women are coerced into hysterectomies? Because the cost of escaping India’s cane fields is often even higher Qadri Inzamam, Megha Rajagopalan Published 24.11.24, 07:03 PM Vinobai Taktode and her son Omkar, both sugar-cane cutters, at a relative’s home in Alepur, in western India, where she told the police that her husband had been kidnapped by his employer, Aug.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Qadri Inzamam |Megha Rajagopalan |Saumya Khandelwal
Earlier this year The Times and The Fuller Project revealed that household-name companies and Indian politicians profit off a brutal system that forces children to work, pushes them into underage marriages and coerces women to get unnecessary hysterectomies to keep them working in the fields, unencumbered by menstruation or routine ailments. All of those abuses can be linked to what is known as bonded labor, a system in which workers are perpetually in debt to their employers and cannot leave.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
fullerproject.org | Megha Rajagopalan |Qadri Inzamam
The 2024 election is critical for medical advances, especially research that involves and affects women. The Biden administration recognized decades of failure to include half the population in medical research when it established a White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research and dedicated tens of millions of dollars to study diseases affecting primarily women and to include more women in studies of diseases that affect everyone.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
fullerproject.org | Megha Rajagopalan |Qadri Inzamam |Allan Olingo |Stephen Oduor
Earlier this year, our investigation with The New York Times into Maharashtra’s sugar cane farms revealed a brutal system of debt bondage that controls women’s lives from early adolescence — and has resulted in thousands getting coerced into unnecessary hysterectomies. Our latest collaboration reveals why nothing has been done about this open secret: The majority of mills are owned by political figures, meaning the very people who could protect workers are profiting from their exploitation.
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
seattletimes.com | Megha Rajagopalan |Qadri Inzamam
MUMBAI, India — In the sweltering sugar fields of the western Indian state of Maharashtra, abusive practices such as debt bondage and child labor have long been an open secret. But in 2019, a state lawmaker named Neelam Gorhe documented a new level of brutality: Female workers were getting unnecessary hysterectomies at alarmingly high rates. She presented her findings to the state’s health minister and alerted the region’s sugar regulator.
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Mar 30, 2024 | 
fullerproject.org | Lisa Woelfl |Greg Morton |Jessica Klein |Qadri Inzamam
From an early age, Mona Polacca’s mother told her something that would guide her life’s work protecting the environment and advocating for Indigenous people: Water and all its inhabitants were her relatives.
