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August 07, 2018 | Pacific Standard
Last Resort
More than two centuries after settling in Honduras, the Garifuna people are still fighting for a place to raise their families.
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Honduras
July 10, 2018 | The Texas Tribune
“A Very Cruel Punishment”: A Family Split by “Zero Tolerance” Won’t Try to Cross Again, Mom Says
Since requesting asylum, a father has been detained near Houston while his 6-year-old daughter was shipped to Arizona. In Honduras, the girl's mother fears her daughter will be traumatized.
July 07, 2018 | The Texas Tribune
The Trump Administration Is Not Keeping Its Promises to Asylum Seekers Who Come to Ports of Entry
Trump administration officials insist that there is a "right way" for families to seek asylum in the United States: Come to an official port of entry. But they are still finding themselves in trouble.
March 08, 2017 | The Guardian
Farmers Sue World Bank Lending Arm over Alleged Violence in Honduras
A complaint lodged with US federal court seeks compensation for alleged attacks and killings, including by private security forces.
March 01, 2017 | The Guardian, Yale Environment 360
In Honduras, Defending Nature Is a Deadly Business
Berta Cáceres fought to protect native lands in Honduras, and paid with her life. She is victim to a global trend — the killings of environmental activists who block development projects.
December 26, 2016 | The Nation
Meet the Central American Women the United States is Detaining and Deporting
Families fleeing extreme violence in Honduras and seeking asylum in the U.S. were detained in for-profit detention centers in Texas and deported to that same violence without adequate due process.
March 14, 2016 | Mother Jones
The World Bank's Anti-Poverty Push Made These Controversial Tycoons Even Richer
From an “often ruthless” Honduran oligarch to a pair of Indian billionaires who ran a company accused of falsifying drug data, the World Bank has helped the rich get richer.
October 06, 2015 | The New York Times
Between Borders: American Migrant Crisis
From Central America, thousands of children fleeing poverty and danger make multiple attempts to reach the United States despite increased efforts by Mexico to turn them back.
October 30, 2014 | Business Insider
Dispatch from Honduras: What Life Is Like in the Murder Capital of the World
"In an effort to understand what life is like in the world's murder capital, we spent two weeks in San Pedro Sula. We found a city in crisis, but also a place steeped in hope...."
July 29, 2014 | Roads & Kingdoms
Honduras’ Killing Fields
In these rural lands, poverty, murder, and injustice fuel a battle between farmers and rich landowners.
December 31, 2013 | The New Yorker
Honduras: A Mission Gone Wrong
Why are we still fighting the drug war?
December 02, 2013 | The New Yorker
A Contested Election in Honduras
There is no expectation that the election will be overturned, but the country's ideological divide has widened further.
A Journey Through Contested Lands: Honduras
Real estate investors are violating the hard-fought land rights of the Garífuna, an Afro-Caribbean community in Honduras whose unique and endangered culture has been recognized by UNESCO.
Environmental Martyrs
Murders of environmental and land rights campaigners are on the increase worldwide.
Honduras: Seeking Protection, Detained in the United States, Deported to Danger
Women fleeing extreme gang-based and domestic violence seek asylum in United States. Many are detained, deported, and targeted upon return.
Between Borders: American Migrant Crisis
In 2014, 90,000 unaccompanied minors made the treacherous journey from Central America to the United States. No longer are people simply fleeing poverty, now they are fleeing for their lives.
La Moskitia: Front Line in the Drug War
One of the world's least-governed regions is caught between South American drug traffickers and the D.E.A.
Honduras: "Aqui Vivimos"
"Honduras: Aqui Vivimos" ("Honduras: We Live Here") explores the social conditions—abject poverty, corruption, political disillusionment, and gang culture—that have made Honduras a violent country.
The Forgotten: HIV and the Garifuna of Honduras
The Garifuna have historically been forgotten in Honduras and currently face one of the highest HIV rates in the Western Hemisphere. Traditional music and dance help raise awareness.
Honduras: Fighting Malnutrition
Nestled in a remote northern Honduras valley, Santa Lucia and the surrounding area are home to 20,000 rural inhabitants. These families rely solely on their agrarian skills for a subsistent living. According to UNICEF, over one-third of Honduran infants are malnourished due to this indigenous lifestyle. Four percent of Honduran children die before reaching five years of age, at a rate five times higher than that of U.S.
August 08, 2018 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Susan Meiselas
Susan Meiselas documents the Garifuna people’s fight for their land rights in Honduras in the midst of development and conflict with private investors and the government.
August 18, 2017 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalists: Matt Kennard and Claire Provost
In this project, Matt Kennard and Claire Provost examine an industry that deals in services that have long been considered duties of national police and military forces.
April 18, 2017 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Fred Pearce
200 environmental and human rights activists are assassinated each year, according to Global Witness. Fred Pearce investigates the headline-grabbing slayings of three of these activists.
December 26, 2016 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Emily Gogolak
Emily Gogolak, from the field in Tegucigalpa, discusses her reporting on violence against women in Honduras and the deportations of mothers and children from immigration detention centers in Texas.
October 07, 2015 | Education Resources
Lesson Plan for Child Migration
A lesson plan to accompany reporting projects that cover child migration.
October 06, 2015 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalists: Brent Renaud and Craig Renaud
Journalists Brent and Craig Renaud take viewers behind the scenes of their reporting for the NY Times on the migrant crackdown in Mexico.
April 04, 2014 | Meet the Journalist
Journalist Matt Schwartz and The War on Drugs
Meet Pulitzer grantee Mattathias Schwartz, author of the New Yorker article "A Mission Gone Wrong."
January 06, 2014 | Meet the Journalist
Journalists Jeremy Relph and Dominic Bracco II on Reporting in Honduras
Writer Jeremy Relph and photographer Dominic Bracco II talk about their reporting project in Honduras, "Aqui Vivimos," which explores violence, impunity, ideology, and politics in the country.
January 30, 2013 |
Jens Erik Gould and David Rochkind on HIV and the Garifuna of Honduras
Photographer David Rochkind and reporter Jens Erik Gould introduce themselves and their project "The Forgotten: HIV and the Garifuna of Honduras."
February 27, 2012 | Meet the Journalist
Nick Miroff on the Drug War Spillover in Central America
Pulitzer Center grantee Nick Miroff talks about an under-siege Central America and the Mexico drug cartels fighting to control the region's smuggling routes.
July 11, 2018 | Education news
This Week in Education: Families Divided Along the Border
This week: investigating family separation at the U.S.-Mexico border, performing poetry in front of the White House, and explaining heavy metal mining in Peru.
June 20, 2017 | Newsletter
This Week: DEA Killings Exposed
This week: New U.S. government report confirms a grantee reporting, the underground media market in Havana, and lax security policies in the Maldives.
June 19, 2017 | General news, Project news
Grantee's Reporting on DEA Killings Confirmed by U.S. Government Report
Pulitzer Center grantee Mattathias Schwartz's reporting on a botched 2012 DEA raid in Honduras has been confirmed by a U.S. government report.
September 01, 2016 | Education news
News Bites and Lesson Plan of the Week: Technology and Activism in Mexico
This week's newsletter highlights lessons that explore reporting from Mexico.
May 30, 2016 | General news, Education news
Pulitzer Center 2016 Student Fellows Announced
2016 fellows report on a range of complex issues from around the world—from global health and perceptions of identity to environmental degradation and innovation.
May 05, 2016 | Education news
News Bites and Lesson Plan of the Week: Teacher Appreciation Day
This week's news on all things Pulitzer Center Education.
January 21, 2016 | General news
A Day in the Life of Photojournalist Dominic Bracco
Photojournalist and Pulitzer Center grantee Dominic Bracco visited Brookland Middle School to teach sixth graders about the Latin American migration crisis.
October 13, 2015 | General news, Project news, Education news
This Week: Between Borders
Children flee violence and poverty in Central America.
November 03, 2014 | General news, Project news
This Week: Death—and Life—in San Pedro Sula
Jeremy Relph and Dominic Bracco II spent two weeks in San Pedro Sula, the world's murder capital. They found a city in crisis, but also a place steeped in hope.
October 03, 2014 | Project news
Is the War on Drugs Over?
A panel discussion on U.S. drug policy with Hamilton Morris, Kathleen Frydl, and César Gaviria, the former president of Colombia. Sponsored by the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, and n+1.
March 17, 2014 | General news, Education news
Talking About the "War on Drugs" with D.C. High Schoolers
Pulitzer Center grantee Mattathias Schwartz visits D.C. schools to discuss the effects of the U.S."war on drugs" in one country along the supply route and the dangers of vilifying people and places.
January 24, 2014 | General news, Education news
"It's not black and white, not easy like that"
How do you talk about the most violent cities in the world with a classroom of fourth-graders? Dominic Bracco and Jeremy Relph figured it out.
August 08, 2018 | Middle School, High School
Contested Lands: Teaching Indigenous Rights and Resistance Through Photo Stories
Indigenous rights and visual literacy take center stage in these activity ideas and classroom resources, using reporting from six countries by Magnum photographers.
April 02, 2018 | All Grades
10 Lesson Plans to Celebrate Earth Day
In celebration of Earth Day, we've compiled our top ten lesson plans that feature reporting on how communities around the world are responding to diverse environmental issues.
June 27, 2017 | All Grades, College
Exploring Other Countries
In this lesson, students use the Pulitzer Center website to research a specific country before giving an oral presentation.
June 19, 2017 | All Grades
Resources for the University of Chicago Summer Institute for Educators 2017
This plan includes lessons connected to the work of journalists that presented at the University of Chicago Summer Teacher Institute in June 2017.
March 07, 2017 | Middle School, High School
The Dangers of Being an Environmental Activist
In this lesson, students learn about Berta Cáceres, the risks that environmental activists face in Honduras, and how threats to activists fit into larger political, social, and cultural conflicts.
December 22, 2016 | High School, College
Seeking Asylum: Women and Children Migrating Across Borders
Students learn about asylum seekers and the boundaries between refugees and migrants. They explore how current refugee and migration policies impact women and children.
September 26, 2016 | All Grades
Jewell: Interpreting Global Issues Through Picasso's "Guernica"
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 Guernica with current day issues presented from The Pulitzer Center.
June 17, 2016 | All Grades
Funston: Interpreting Global Issues Through Picasso's "Guernica"
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 "Guernica" with current day issues presented by the Pulitzer Center.
April 10, 2016 | College
Human Rights Reporting
Students will critically examine the legal, professional and moral obligations of journalists as witnesses to all kinds of human rights violations.
March 23, 2016 | Middle School, High School
Interpreting Global Issues Through Picasso's 'Guernica'
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 Guernica with current day issues presented by the Pulitzer Center.
October 12, 2015 | All Grades
Museum of Current Crises
This lesson plan outlines a project that allows students the opportunity to connect with a contemporary crisis somewhere in the world.
September 23, 2015 | All Grades
The Journey North: Exploring reasons behind migration to the U.S. from Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala
In this lesson we will look at three reporting projects: violence in Honduras; violence in Guatemala; and the abduction of students in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico.