India
‘I've kept my books’: How water scarcity impacts girls in rural India
In India's drought-prone Maharashtra state, as young women bear the daily burden of fetching water, they risk dropping out of school and early marriage
In India, microfinance is destroying women’s lives
Microfinance promised women’s empowerment. But in West Bengal, where the practice has grown exponentially in the past decade, women are dying, disappearing, and getting stuck in endless cycles of debt
Scientists are just starting to understand the links between climate change and maternal mental health. India’s community health workers are already finding ways to tackle it
How climate change is endangering maternal health in India, causing pregnancy loss and worsening mental health
To Quit Their Jobs, Sugar Workers Risk Kidnapping, Assault and Murder
Why would anyone stay in a job where abuse is rampant and women are coerced into hysterectomies? Because the cost of escaping India’s cane fields is often even higher
Why Politicians Ignore Abuses in India’s Sugar Industry: They Run It
Politicians run most of the mills in the state of Maharashtra. They deny or downplay evidence of coerced hysterectomies, debt bondage and child labor in the fields
Fast fashion is one of the world’s most polluting industries. Its global workforce is paying the price.
Around the world, fashion’s mostly female labor force are grappling with working conditions made increasingly unbearable and unhealthy by climate change.
The Brutality of Sugar: Debt, Child Marriage and Hysterectomies
Women working on India’s sugarcane farms are having expensive and medically unnecessary hysterectomies so they can work uninterrupted – a practice that keeps sugar flowing to Coke, Pepsi and Cadbury, but leaves its victims with long-term health problems and debts they can’t pay
India has made remarkable progress cutting maternal deaths. Could climate change pose a threat?
Severe seasonal water shortages are forcing hospitals in India to close their doors to women in labor, raising fears that maternal health gains could be threatened
The women workers who are subsidizing global public health
Millions of community health workers, like the famous ASHA workers of India, form the cost-effective backbone of rural health programs around the world but are often unpaid — meaning millions of unpaid or underpaid women are effectively subsidizing trillions of dollars in global health
