Fuller Project for International Reporting

3 weeks ago | fullerproject.org | Melissa Mahtani

Sulaima Ishaq Elkhalifa should have little reason to be hopeful. A trained psychologist and trauma specialist, she documents sexual crimes in Sudan, a country now in its third year of civil war. Deliberate sexual violence against women – including gang rape, sexual slavery, trafficking, and forced marriage – has been well documented as a cheap and highly effective weapon of war by both the Sudanese armed forces and the country’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

1 month ago | fullerproject.org | Louise Donovan

Growing up, me and my school friends often dodged the obscenities men hurled at us from across the street. Much like homework or being thrown out of the pub for being underage, we just got used to it. As I got older, and maybe a little wiser, I changed my mind. At the time, around 2012, I’d been reading the thousands of entries posted on the Everyday Sexism Project’s website, where women detailed their sexist encounters. Set up by Laura Bates, a British writer and activist, it quickly went viral.

1 month ago | fullerproject.org | Maher Sattar

“I don’t think any other commission’s report has gotten so much attention,” says Maheen Sultan, one of the members of Bangladesh’s women’s affairs reform commission. It’s hard to disagree. Sultan’s commission was set up by the Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus’s interim government to help introduce major structural reforms after years of authoritarian rule under the ousted former prime minister Sheikh Hasina.

1 month ago | fullerproject.org | Jodi Enda

I’ve been writing for decades about America’s on-again-off-again support for the reproductive health care of women around the world, focusing on the Republican presidents who have slashed funding and jeopardized women’s lives. During that time, I’ve interviewed many women, primarily in poor countries, who have struggled to obtain care for themselves or others. Their stories are often scary, heartbreaking and, quite literally, painful.

1 month ago | fullerproject.org | Maher Sattar

While tariffs are making headlines, Trump 2.0 is also upending the results of decades of international collaboration at the United Nations. The U.S. stood firm against  to get those attending the U.N.’s annual meeting on gender equality in March to commit to protecting women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights. It has also rejected the Sustainable Development Goals, a framework for international development that was unanimously adopted by all 193 U.N. member states 10 years ago.