November 4, 2024
Right-wing American Christian groups that oppose sexual and reproductive rights are significantly increasing their spending in Africa, according to a new data analysis published ahead of a U.S. election, which could prove pivotal to abortion access both inside and outside the country. Research by the nonprofit Institute for Journalism and Social Change (IJSC) found that 17 groups increased their Africa spending by 50% between 2019 and 2022, the most recent year for which data is available. The researchers say the data represents only a handful of Christian Right groups but indicates that they are making an increasingly concerted effort to influence abortion policy internationally as well as domestically.
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June 12, 2024
For the second time, the IFC is bucking recommendations to offer money as reparations to people hurt at a chain of schools it invested in, Bridge International Academies. Thanks in part to The Intercept’s reporting, the World Bank Board delayed a vote on an IFC action plan that did not include compensation.
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May 29, 2024
Millions of Sudanese are fleeing a warzone—and exposing the world’s bankrupt response.
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April 3, 2024
Rio Tinto’s Madagascar Mine Promised Prosperity. It Tainted a Community.
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January 12, 2024
As Israel’s war against Hamas rages on, Palestinian women bear the heaviest burden.
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October 17, 2023
Whistleblower: The World Bank Helped Cover Up Child Sex Abuse at a Chain of For-Profit Schools It Funded
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August 4, 2023
Women helped bring down the country’s Islamist dictator—and are still stuck with fundamentalism.
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June 21, 2023
She leads a team of 100 at a non-profit with operations across Africa and says climate has been seen through a male perspective for too long.
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March 23, 2023
Two Harvard Grads Saw Big Profits in African Education. Children Paid the Price.
For six months, The Intercept’s Ryan Grim and I investigated horrendous child sex abuse allegations at Bridge International Academies, a chain of low-cost, for-profit private schools started by two former Harvard graduates and funded by Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Pierre Omidyar, as well as the International Finance Corporation, the lending arm of the World Bank.
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February 15, 2023
Thailand has long been one of the world’s major sex tourism destinations. Estimates of sex work’s contribution to GDP vary widely because the industry operates almost entirely underground. But in 2015, the black market research company Havocscope valued it at $6.4 billion per year—about 1.5 percent of the country’s GDP that year.
Despite earning billions annually, the industry is effectively illegal, controversial among Thais, and highly stigmatized. Now, the debate over sex work is spilling into public forums, with a progressive lawmaker introducing a bill in parliament to legalize it. Its proponents argue that criminalization has deprived sex workers of basic labor rights and protections enjoyed by other workers, making them more vulnerable to health risks, harassment, exploitation, and violence—while making sex work itself no less visible.
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