Asia
“Outlawed in Pakistan” explores the country’s flawed justice system through the lens of Kainat Soomro's case against four men accused of gang raping her.
Executive Director Jon Sawyer shares highlights from this week's reporting— trucking across Pakistan, fake drugs in India and more.
The NGO Plan International offers low-income Pakistanis who dropped out of school a second chance. In just two years, students are brought up to speed and readied to take all-important board exams.
Photographer Tomas van Houtryve began exploring North Korea's borders after two trips inside the country in 2007 and 2008.
Photographer Carlos Javier Ortiz grew up in Chicago and was so affected by the young people dying around him, he decided to document the death toll.
Health workers in India are overcoming cultural mistrust about polio immunization by turning to local Muslim clerics for support.
As North Korea threatens to barrel down a warpath, South Korea braces for an impending attack.
The neighborhood of garishly opulent mansions is aptly known to locals as "Cocainebougou," or Cocaine Town. It stands as testament to the sudden collapse of Mali.
Indian society strongly prefers boys at every stage of life. Here's how some mothers are trying to change that.
In India, where female fetuses are aborted by the thousands, violence percolates all through a woman's life. These images were taken in a Mumbai slum where oppression is pervasive.
President Obama was in Jerusalem this week on a visit that was expected to be long on symbolism and short on substance.
"Western" diseases such as heart attacks, diabetes, and hypertension hit poor countries, too, but you don't hear much about them. One challenge: making the story interesting.
India has now gone two full years without a single new case of polio. If it continues on this track, it will be declared polio-free in February 2014.