Bridging the Education Gap: Peru Attempts to Make the Grade
Anna SpoerreHeynen Florez, 19, works the night shift at El Hornero, a small restaurant in Quilmaná, a district about two hours from the glittering skyscrapers and Starbucks-speckled corners of Peru’s...
View ArticleZika's Spread to Europe
Emily BaumgaertnerCOPENHAGEN–The Zika virus is expected to spread in Europe by summer, according to a WHO risk assessment released May 18.Overall risk for an outbreak in the region is low to moderate,...
View ArticleSeeking Asylum in Denmark
Ana P. SantosCOPENHAGEN, Denmark – For about an hour and a half every Tuesday and Thursday, the small sewing room is transformed with the sound of chanting, clapping and laughter.Mothers with babies...
View ArticleReporting on Reproductive Health: Women Deliver 2016
The Pulitzer Center returned to the Women Deliver International Conference to spark discussion about the opportunities and obstacles of reporting on women's health issues worldwide.This year's...
View ArticleFilming "El Oso": A Glimpse Behind the Scenes
Dominic Bracco II All forms of journalism require a great deal of openness and participation. Documentary films require more collaboration than many other types of journalistic content. This slideshow...
View ArticleJudicial Reform in Juarez Still Has a Ways to Go
Dominic Bracco IIThe Mexican border city Ciudad Juárez has undergone something of a transformation. Once the world’s murder capital, today Juárez has peace and stability that would have been...
View ArticleGreece: The Baker Who Predicted a Camp's End
Jeanne Carstensen and Jodi HiltonEarlier this week, Idomeni refugee camp on the Greek border with Macedonia was a sprawling tent village that was home to about 8,500 people.Now, after a massive police...
View ArticleGreece: Ramadan for Refugees
Jodi HiltonThe month-long Muslim holiday of Ramadan began this week. In a camp of about 800, refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan celebrate with what little they have. Jodi Hilton reports from the...
View ArticleThe Travails of Migration to Europe; On a Wing and a Prayer
Jodi HiltonPulitzer Center grantee Jodi Hilton's photographs are featured in Haseeb Asif's cover story in The Herald (Karachi) about Pakistani refugees in Europe."Beginning in April this year, Greece...
View ArticleRefugees Stuck in Greece Miss Home More During Ramadan
Jeanne CarstensenAs the sun sets behind the massive ferries that take travelers to the Greek islands, hundreds of hot, tired refugees line up in front of a trailer in a vast parking lot. They haven’t...
View ArticleGreece: Refugee Mothers and Daughters Seek Reunion in E.U.
Jodi HiltonWhen I first met 13-year-old Zeyneb Omer, she was shivering next to a smoldering fire, dressed in a thin blue and yellow raincoat. It was a cold, rainy day in March 2016 in Idomeni, where...
View ArticleMany Muslim Refugees Spend Ramadan Inside Migrant Camps
Jeanne CarstensenARI SHAPIRO, HOST:We're now halfway through the month of Ramadan when observant Muslims fast from dawn to sunset. At this time last year, I spoke with a young man named Abdel Hamid. He...
View ArticleMuslim Refugees Stuck in Greece Miss Home More Than Ever During Ramadan
Jeanne CarstensenAs the sun sets behind the massive ferries that take travelers to the Greek islands, hundreds of hot, tired refugees line up in front of a trailer in a vast parking lot. They haven’t...
View ArticleChicagoland Educators Build Lessons on Local Connections to Global Issues
Lauren ShepherdAn animated group of secondary and post-secondary teachers gather around a giant poster that reads, “My students need....” The poster had just been flooded with multi-colored post-it...
View ArticleThe First 1,000 Days: A Crucial Time for Mothers and Children–and the World
Author and Pulitzer Center grantee Roger Thurow speaks at the World Bank in Washington, DC, on Thursday, July 14, 2016, about his latest book, The First 1,000 Days: A Crucial Time for Mothers and...
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New E-book: Religion in the Public Sphere
Patrick ReillyReligion is rarely far from the headlines. With Pope Francis publishing a papal encyclical on the environment, Donald Trump calling for a ban on all Muslims entering the United States,...
View ArticleOlder Men and Young Women Drive South African HIV Epidemic
Amy MaxmenSex between young women and older men is no secret in South Africa. The name "blesser" is commonly used to describe a man who may at first pay for a teenager’s bus fare to high school, then...
View ArticleWhat's Driving HIV in South Africa?
Young women are at particularly high risk for HIV in parts of sub-Saharan Africa, where about 5,000 of them acquire the disease each week. Teenage girls are eight times more likely to have HIV than...
View ArticleStrong Support for Ending FGM, According to UNICEF
Jane Darby MentonA majority of men and women in countries where female genital mutilation is common oppose the practice, according to new data from UNICEF.FGM affects up to 200 million people...
View ArticleThe Perils of Pakistani Migrants Heading to Europe
Jodi Hilton and Haseeb AsifWhen Mohammed Ismail was 11 years old, his maternal uncle disappeared from their village in Gujrat. Nobody heard from him; nobody knew where he had gone. Some worried he...
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