This story is published in partnership with Foreign Policy. An Ipas trained health extension worker in Amhara region explains different contraceptives available to a woman in May 2022. (Photo courtesy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The war in Ukraine is exacerbating an already crippling food crisis, which is taking a disproportionate toll on women and girls. Ukraine is the world’s top producer of sunflower oil, and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Taliban is requiring women to have a “mahram,” or male chaperone, when seeking healthcare. The new requirement is preventing many Afghan women from getting the treatment they need at a time when ...

As Gofaone sat behind a polishing wheel for the first time, she wasn’t just bursting with happiness; she felt important. Not everyone in Botswana gets the chance to see a diamond with their own eyes, ...

British author Laura Bates discusses her new book, The New Age of Sexism. Growing up, me and my school friends often dodged the obscenities men hurled at us from across the street. Much like homework ...

Devi Khadka was just 17 when she was taken into custody by police looking for her brother, a combatant in Nepal’s decade-long civil war. When she refused to give them information, she was first ...