June 29, 2010 /
Karen Zusman
Refugees fleeing Burma's authoritarian government frequently end up in Malaysia. The promised haven is often anything but, with refugees prey to human traffickers, physical abuse and rape. This...
June 25, 2010 /
Daniel Connolly
A hardened criminal from the streets of Memphis. One of the biggest drug cartels in Mexico. The corruption, cash, and demand for drugs that fuels an illegal, deadly trade -- and the consequences,...
June 23, 2010 /
Susana Ferreira, Dominic Nahr
Those attending the 2010 World Cup in South Africa reveled in that country's triumphant emergence as a multiracial democracy. They may have missed a darker story -- the abuse and marginalization of...
February 5, 2010 /
Stephanie Hanes, Stephen Sapienza
Some of the most marginalized people in the Caribbean are Haitian immigrants, and their descendents, living in the Dominican Republic.
January 28, 2010 /
Jordan Wilson
For about 18 months, more than a half of million people from the Ugandan area have been displaced after post-election violence forced them from their homes.
April 21, 2009 /
David Rochkind, Sacha Feinman
Once a sleepy agricultural town, the entire economy of Altar, Sonora is, at this point, based on human smuggling.
January 6, 2009 /
Lygia Navarro
Six months after Fidel Castro's exit, Lygia Navarro explores the hidden epidemic of depression in Cuba.
December 27, 2008 /
Clayton Worfolk, Jordan deBree
In the last several years, at least one dozen Mexican norteño musicians have been murdered in a wave of violence bearing the brazenness and brutality of Mexico's drug cartels.
August 15, 2008 /
Matthew Hay Brown
An exodus of more than 2 million Iraqis is reshaping the Middle East -- with ominous implications for the region.