Short waiting periods and high availability of young children have made Ethiopia an international adoption hot spot. Babies have become a major "export" but corruption is rampant.
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 Prostitution is still legal in Turkey, but this Muslim country is cracking down on the sex trade. |
 A former school drop-out, Esteban Ruiseco is the type of teenager Mexico's drug cartels prey upon. And he might have joined them, if the clarinet hadn't given him hope for a better future. |
 Afghan entrepreneurs are taking advantage of new technology, including audio editions, to bring books to a market that faces the challenge of 28 percent illiteracy. |
 Afghan women are writing poetry of love, war, exile, grief and Afghan independence with ferocity. By writing it they are also risking their lives. |
 Pulitzer Center grantees Eliza Griswold and Seamus Murphy visit a Sufi mosque and experience snow—and a traffic jam—in Kabul, Afghanistan. |
 A day in the life of Abdullah Demirbas, the pro-Kurdish mayor of the Sur district in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir. |
 Diyarbakır’s 1.5 million Kurdish residents are isolated from western Turkey; they are dismissed, vilified, feared. Now they are on TV. |
 Adding to the Kony2012 discussion is Pulitzer Center photojournalist Marcus Bleasdale's video featuring interviews with children abducted by the Lord's Resistant Army. |
 Joseph Kony's murderous crimes are now widely known thanks to #Kony2012, a 30-minute video that has gone viral. What now? |
 Thirteen-year old Cynthia Desert attends l'Ecole Nationale Republique du Chili, a 15-minute walk from her home—a tent camp in Port-au-Prince. |
 What is life like for a 13-year-old Haitian girl, two years after the earthquake? |