LA Press Club finalist in two categories ✨🥰

My piece on what it was like to be undocumented + unemployed during the pandemic, written for The Fuller Project / Guardian US is shortlisted in the Public Service News/Feature category:

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Black women are more likely to be diagnosed late and die from breast, ovarian & cervical cancer. But the medical trials that study diagnostic & treatment advances are almost completely made up of white women. The Fuller Project's Erica Hensley analyzes the data. bit.ly/3wCjcNw

Women play a vital role in the global business of fashion yet their livelihoods — and lives — are being increasingly threatened by climate change.

Read Louise Donovan in partnership w/grist: bit.ly/3wugg5J

From women in India picking cotton in sun-baked fields of roughly 113°F to garment workers in Cambodia, who work through soaring temperatures inside factories, heat impacts fashion’s global workers.

Louise Donovan writes about her latest story: bit.ly/3QzOHi2

Congrats to Zan Times for winning a 2024 Human Rights Press Award for newsroom in exile for their story on the rise of suicide among Afghan women living under the Taliban, produced and published in collaboration with The Fuller Project. #WorldPressFreedomDay

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Around the world, fashion’s mostly female labor force is grappling with working conditions made increasingly unbearable and unhealthy by climate change. Read @fullerproject’s Louise Donovan’s reporting, in partnership with grist bit.ly/3Ure0UV

Abortion in the U.S. is completely illegal, with few exceptions, in 14 states. North Carolina is the only place in the Southeast to access legal abortion after 6 weeks gestation, which bans abortion after 12 weeks.

See the abortion laws state by state 👇bit.ly/3Bm2gs2

#WorldPressFreedomDay

Women play a vital role in the global business of fashion yet their livelihoods — and lives — are being increasingly threatened by climate change.

Read Louise Donovan's reporting in partnership w/grist: bit.ly/3Ure0UV

Ahead of #WorldPressFreedomDay , Zahra Nader writes about the Taliban's censorship of media and a potential total ban for Afghan women from working in the media industry.

Read more in this week's newsletter, subscribe to stay updated: bit.ly/3JGMHku

Congrats to The Fuller Project's contrib. reporters Jessie Williams, Rachel Fobar & Zahra Nader for being named 2024 finalists for excellence in intl. reporting by the Wallace House Center for Journalists Livingston Awards for their Fuller stories on Somaliland, Afghanistan & Ukraine. bit.ly/4bdTJZu

Thrilled to be a finalist in the Wallace House Center for Journalists Livingston Awards for international reporting, alongside so many journalists I admire! Nominated for my TIME x The Fuller Project investigation into how the war in Ukraine has exacerbated domestic violence.
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Few medications on the market undergo pregnancy testing. Challenging traditional research norms that deem pregnant women too vulnerable & risky to include, a new National Academies report asserts these ideas as both harmful & false.

Erica Hensley for The Fuller Project: bit.ly/3UbEuJV

#HappyEarthDay2024

This collaborative investigation by The Examination, Capital B, The Fuller Project, The Guardian & Nation Africa details how hair relaxers linked to cancer, & have been abandoned in the United States, now sell more in Africa. buff.ly/4b0xLcj

Images of men dominate the Internet, & the imbalance can worsen people’s already biased perceptions about men & women, a team of U.S. researchers has found.

Read this week’s newsletter to know how this amplifies the spread of stereotypes & gender biases👇bit.ly/49LTFzg

A news about our work Zan Times!

Our report on the rise of suicide among women in Afghanistan which was published in partnership with The Fuller Project and The Guardian has been selected as a finalist for the prestigious human rights reporting award by Canadian Association of Journalists and Journalists for Human Rights (JHR)!

Honoring #BlackMaternalHealthWeek , we look back at Jodi Enda's story on the disastrous consequences of America's anti-abortion movement for millions of poor women across the globe.

Read the full story: bit.ly/49WDXCd

Last June saw protests in Kenya's tea-growing region over mechanization, particularly impacting women. In a rare win, unions have secured a victory as tea estates agree to limit machine harvesting to 65%.

Allan Olingo reports in this week's newsletter: bit.ly/3JjCryf