For more than a decade, our reporting has driven real-world change — prompting major corporations to overhaul labor practices, spurring legislative reform, banning harmful practices, and enabling the rescue of migrant domestic workers. But accountability is only part of what we do: our work also illuminates what works and why it matters. This is what impact-driven journalism looks like.
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A joint investigation with The New York Times exposed the systematic exploitation of women sugarcane harvesters in India — documenting forced labor, child marriage, and unnecessary hysterectomies driven by corrupt officials and powerful sugar
For years, women first responders and survivors of the September 11 attacks were excluded from federal health care and compensation programs — their illnesses undocumented, their suffering unrecognized. Fuller's reporting helped change that. Following our investigation, women left out of 9/11 benefits became eligible for health care and compensation for the first time.
Fuller revealed that a VA suicide prevention algorithm used to protect veterans largely ignored women — despite female veteran suicides rising at four times the rate of men. Following publication, Senate legislation was introduced requiring the VA to overhaul the algorithm, and the VA began incorporating sexual trauma into its risk factors for the first time.
In partnership with Rukhshana Media, Fuller has documented the systematic erasure of Afghan women's rights under Taliban rule — including an investigation revealing that women's suicide rates now exceed men's in nine of eleven Afghan provinces, a global anomaly. At a moment when the Taliban has banned health professionals from publishing such data, our reporting creates an invaluable record of what is being lost.
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Fuller's investigation into a frankincense factory in Somaliland — co-published with The Guardian — uncovered health violations, underpayment, and sexual assault. The U.S. subsequently banned imports from the factory's operator. And the nearly 300 women left jobless by the shutdown didn't stop there — they banded together to form a women-led workers' collective, earning nearly five times their previous wages.
