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“If this happens to the president, where does that leave all the young women in our country?”
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum made the remark while announcing she was pressing charges against the man who groped her in public last week.
Her response struck a chord far beyond Mexico, which is unsurprising since a UN Women and Inter-Parliamentary Union survey found two-thirds of women politicians across 39 countries reported experiencing psychological violence. Women in politics face this abuse often with little protection or accountability.
More women are entering public life, but are they truly safe in it?
#ClaudiaSheinbaum #WomenInPolitics #GenderEquality #WorldNews
How is the trad wife movement reshaping our idea of consent?
When we met with sex educator Ericka Hart for an event co-hosted by The Fuller Project and MSI Reproductive Choices, she warned that the growing online trend promoting “traditional values” literally asserts that women’s bodies “should be available to a man”, leaving no space for consent or bodily autonomy.
Hart said its normalization makes her “incredibly nervous for sexual health and reproduction”. But she also pointed to educators and advocates countering misinformation as a source of hope.
#GenderJustice #Misinformation
AI is learning to care. Or at least, to sound like it does.
Millions now turn to chatbots for comfort, company, or love. But behind the friendly voice lies a familiar pattern. AI is replicating society’s oldest expectations of women: to care, to comfort, to be endlessly available.
While emotional labour is being automated, the women who perform it in person, such as teachers, nurses and carers, remain underpaid and overlooked.
Women’s jobs are nearly twice as likely as men’s to be reshaped by automation. The same empathy once dismissed as “women’s work” is now being sold back as innovation.
#GenderJustice #FemTech #EmotionalLabour #FeministTech
Did you know that women are more likely to die during and after hurricanes? #HurricaneMelissa #feministnews #Jamaica #climatechange
The United Nations was founded 80 years ago this month. Does it still have relevance today? We spoke to an insider to find out.
“Having women in power doesn’t mean empowering women.”
Journalist Shiori Ito, a leading voice in Japan’s #MeToo movement, says Japan’s first female prime minister is a historic milestone, but not necessarily a feminist one.
From Thatcher to Meloni, what happens when breaking the glass ceiling doesn’t break the system beneath it?
#SanaeTakaichi #MargaretThatcher #GiorgiaMeloni #WomenNews
A doctor in New York. Patients in Texas and Louisiana. What connects them? A new frontline in America’s abortion battle.
In January, Dr Margaret Carpenter was criminally charged in Texas and Louisiana for allegedly prescribing abortion pills to clients hundreds of miles away. And she’s not the only one. Across the US, prosecutors are targeting providers who prescribe abortion pills online, while states like New York and California are passing “shield laws” to protect them.
The result: a legal tug-of-war where doctors risk prosecution, and patients risk their health.
Learn more about the state of abortion in the US today here: https://archive.fullerproject.org/story/abortion-access-bans-us-roe-v-wade-2025/
“I never thought I’d have to seek asylum from America.”
When actor Indya Moore said those words from Paris, it raised a difficult question: could trans Americans ever be recognised as refugees abroad? In the Netherlands, around 20 have already applied for asylum, citing threats, discrimination, and rising hostility back home.
As anti-trans laws spread across the U.S., the search for safety is starting to move beyond its borders.
#AsylumSeekers #TransRights #USPolitics
What makes the contraceptive pill so controversial on social media? From claims it causes infertility to suggestions it changes who you’re attracted to, misinformation spreads fast — and often looks convincing.
For The Fuller Project, Iris Pase spoke to UK sexual health experts Grace Green from Brook and Dr Frances Yarlett from The Lowdown about how to spot misleading posts — and why alarmist content resonates so strongly across generations.
Voting rights in the US are under attack again. The SAVE Act could block millions of women from registering and voting. But women have been here before. From Seneca Falls in 1848 to the 19th Amendment in 1920, suffragists fought for decades to secure the vote. What can this history teach us about the fight for voting equality today?
#suffragemovement #genderinequality
The gender pay gap is often described as women earning less than men for the same work. But that’s only part of the story.
Behind the gap are systemic forces: the motherhood penalty, the undervaluing of care work, barriers to promotion, and the compounded impact of race and class.
The result isn’t just smaller paychecks — it’s lost security, opportunity, and equality over a lifetime.
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#genderpaygap #equalpayday #payinequality #genderinequality
Yesterday, a UN inquiry concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The writing has been on the wall for a long time and yet, the air strikes and blockade continued as the world watched on. Speaking to The Fuller Project in August, the UN’s special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, Reem Alsalem, addressed the gap between ordinary citizens, moved to protest by the suffering they witness in real time, and their leaders, who she said have been “stalling”.
Israeli officials dismissed the UN’s findings, as they have done all along. The question now is for the international community: will governments act?
#israel #gaza #genocide #humanrights
If you’ve ever wondered whether your time, energy, or resources were truly making a difference in the fight for justice and liberation, Coumba Toure asks you to see progress differently.
At the 2025 Commission on the Status of Women (#CSW69) in New York, the organizer and storyteller from Senegal reminded us that dismantling oppressive systems is a generational task. We pick up where our forebears left off, and we pass it forward to those who come after us.
#feministfutures #generationalwork #collectiveliberation #keepmoving #fullerfeminism
Today the UN marks a major milestone in the global women’s movement: the 30th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women.
After Mexico City in 1975, Copenhagen in 1980 and Nairobi in 1985, some 20,000 people, representing 189 countries, gathered in Beijing, China from 4–15 September 1995.
Governments signed up to The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, which has been described as “the most progressive blueprint ever for advancing women’s rights.”
Outside the formal UN negotiations, advocates representing the full intersectional diversity of the feminist movement met in parallel events.
Coumba Toure was one of them. She travelled to Beijing from Dakar, Senegal and reminisces on what the experience was like.
Bisexual women face some of the highest rates of depression, anxiety, and self-harm among women — yet healthcare systems often fail to meet their needs.
From structural bias that erases bisexuality to higher rates of violence and exclusion, the health risks are clear, but rarely addressed.
Why does this gap persist, and what would it take to fix it?
Share your thoughts below.
#bivisibilityday #bivisibilitymonth #bisexualhistory
Today is the international day of women and girls of African descent.
As the UN puts it: “The woman and girl child of African descent embodies strength, resilience, and untapped potential, yet they remain among the most marginalized groups globally due to the intersection of racial, gender, and socio-economic discrimination.”
There remains much work to do to not only achieve gender parity but also equity among different women. So, we remain inspired by the words of Black feminist academic and activist, Dr. Brittney Cooper.
Who are the women and girls of African descent that you admire?
Tag them below
#EquityInFocus #RepresentationMatters #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsOfAfricanDescent #WomenOfAfricanDescent #GirlsofAfricanDescent
What in the world do journalists do?
The way journalism is portrayed on TV or in the movies is almost always nothing like what it is in real life.
So we thought we’d give you a glimpse into a day in the life of a journalist reporting for The Fuller Project.
At the start of July, Natalie Donback travelled from Barcelona to Sevilla to attend the International Conference on Financing for Development. Though most people will have never heard of it, the event attracted over 15,000 participants from all over the world to have critical conversations about debt, tax and sustainable funding.
Recent aid cuts in the US, the UK and other rich nations will hit some of the world’s poorest countries hard, and as always, women and girls will suffer disproportionately. So The Fuller Project had to be there!
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#Journalism #OnTheGround #FFD4 #WomenInMedia