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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Advocates say this form of affordable, permanent, long-term housing is especially crucial for pregnant women and women with children. Kushel and the advocates at PATH call for an increase in resources ...

“I’m not speaking metaphorically—a bottle of doTERRA essential oil can change the world,” says David Stirling, a mild, clean-cut, middle-aged man. His largely female audience cheers and whistles, as ...

The Fuller Project’s journalism changes lives. By telling stories about women and the barriers they face every day, we raise awareness about systems and structural inequality that disproportionately ...

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 ...

Employees at a garment factory in Lesotho, a tiny country in southern Africa, say they have lived in fear for years.Each day at 7 a.m., as their sewing machines whirred, a familiar panic rose in many ...