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This Could Be The Deadliest Year On Record For Kenyan Women

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.
This vaccine has saved women’s lives. Will RFK Jr.’s attacks on vaccines reverse that?

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

Nov 21, 2024 | flipboard.com | Saumya Khandelwal

Kaun Banega Crorepati 16: Abhishek Bachchan reveals Big B borrows his clothes and shoes; says 'Jis din aapke pitjai aapke hoodie, jeans sab kuch pehna shuru karde'Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan are one of the coolest father-son duos in the entertainment industry. Abhishek Bachchan will appear on the …
Abused Workers in India's Sugar Industry Face Worse Fates if They Quit

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.
A Family Loses 3 Generations of Women in India Crowd's Panic

Jul 3, 2024 | nytimes.com | Suhasini Raj |Saumya Khandelwal

Vinod Kumar was away from home on Tuesday, as he usually is for days at a time in search of masonry work, when he got the dreadful call. All the women in his family, three generations of them, were dead, crushed in a stampede. For the rest of the day, Mr. Kumar and his three sons went from hospital to hospital searching for their loved ones among the bodies of the 121 people who had died when a large gathering of a spiritual guru broke into deadly panic.
In Delhi's Parched Slums, Life Hangs on a Hose and a Prayer

Jun 3, 2024 | nytimes.com | Sameer Yasir |Saumya Khandelwal

Before the water tanker rolled into one of New Delhi's largest slums, Arvind Kumar was pacing between the gate of a public school and a tea seller's stall hundreds of yards from his home, where he lives with nine members of his family. "There, it is coming," Mr. Kumar shouted to a woman waiting on the slum's edge. It had been days since their small portion of the slum, which typically receives one water tanker about every two weeks, had gotten water.
Debt, Child Marriage and Hysterectomies

Mar 24, 2024 | nytimes.com | Megha Rajagopalan |Qadri Inzamam |Saumya Khandelwal

The two soft-drink makers have helped turn the state of Maharashtra into a sugar-producing powerhouse. But a New York Times and Fuller Project investigation has found that these brands have also profited from a brutal system of labor that exploits children and leads to the unnecessary sterilization of working-age women. Young girls are pushed into illegal child marriages so they can work alongside their husbands cutting and gathering sugar cane.
AFRICA SICKLE CELL 1

Dec 11, 2023 | buffalonews.com | Saumya Khandelwal

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save Nasra Gwoto, and her brother, Ramadhani, who traveled with their mother from Tanzania to India to get a bone-marrow transplant for sickle cell disease, rest in a hospital in Gurugram, India, on Dec. 1, 2023.
AFRICA SICKLE CELL 1

Dec 8, 2023 | buffalonews.com | Saumya Khandelwal

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save Nasra Gwoto, and her brother, Ramadhani, who traveled with their mother from Tanzania to India to get a bone-marrow transplant for sickle cell disease, rest in a hospital in Gurugram, India, on Dec. 1, 2023.
INDIA CONFLICT

Dec 1, 2023 | buffalonews.com | Saumya Khandelwal

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save FILE — The burned remains of a Kuki locality, after clashes in Imphal, India on June 1, 2023. In hospital morgues across the state of Manipur lies undeniable evidence that the conflict has yet to be resolved.