Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, the women’s rights activist and independence campaigner, made history earlier this year when she was sworn in as Namibia’s president, becoming only the second woman to be ...

The inauguration of President Donald J. Trump on January 20, 2017. (Photo by Jonathan Newton /The Washington Post via Getty Images) Eight years ago, on the day after Donald Trump moved into the White ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at a rally in Duluth, Georgia, in October. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images) Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to ...

Overturning the constitutional right to abortion was the first step. When Donald Trump returns to the White House next year, the former abortion-rights supporter — who has since proclaimed himself to ...

The U.S. has banned imports from Asli Maydi, the Somali company that until 2023, supplied frankincense oil to the popular U.S. essential oils brand doTERRA, over the use of forced labor. The ban ...

Earlier this year, our investigation with The New York Times into Maharashtra’s sugar cane farms revealed a brutal system of debt bondage that controls women’s lives from early adolescence — and has ...

In the sweltering sugar fields of the western Indian state of Maharashtra, abusive practices such as debt bondage and child labor have long been an open secret. But in 2019, a state lawmaker named ...

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 ...

Devi Khadka was just 17 when she was taken into custody by police looking for her brother, a combatant in Nepal’s decade-long civil war. When she refused to give them information, she was first ...

People gather to stage a demonstration against the Financial Bill for 2024 and tax increases as they march towards the parliament building in Nairobi, Kenya on June 18, 2024. (Photo by Gerald Anderson ...

A trader displays used clothes for sale at her stall at Owino market in Kampala, Uganda in April 2024. (Esther Mbambazi for The Fuller Project). At Kampala’s sprawling Owino market, Millicent Mukwezi ...

American flags are placed next to headstones at the National Cemetery ahead of Memorial Day. (jaflippo/Getty Images) Warning: This newsletter contains references to suicide throughout. Why did the ...