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 ...

Pilot Lenaigwanai covers her mouth as she speaks. She is trying to hide her broken tooth, a bitter reminder of all she endured before finding refuge at a shelter for abuse survivors in northern Kenya.

Buying gems from a country such as Botswana can buy one a clean conscience, claimed a 2015 Time magazine investigation into blood diamonds. In an industry historically beset by violence, smuggling and ...

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 ...

As Nour feeds another half-finished pair of pants through her sewing machine, her arms begin to shake. Amid the whir of fans, her T-shirt sticks to her like skin. She fights to focus, knowing full ...

Twenty-two-year-old anatomist Andreas Vesalius stood over the limp body of an 18-year-old Belgian noblewoman. A tight corset constricted her torso; she died from an ailment of the lungs, it seemed.

Susan Chomba glares out the window of the Prado Land Cruiser at dozens of motorcycles speeding in the opposite direction. Each motorcycle carries at least five bags of charcoal and for every bag, at ...

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Nadezhda Petrovskaya shows the grains stored in her warehouse in Vasiliivka, Ukraine, on July 14, 2022. Because they can’t be exported, grain prices have dropped to below production costs since they ...

In June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark abortion decision Roe v. Wade, which for nearly 50 years recognized a nationwide, constitutional abortion right. The 6-3 decision in ...

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 ...

At year-round, full-time hours — the way the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics calculates an annual wage — the average school bus driver makes more than $39,000 a year. But school bus drivers don’t work ...