Youth
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.
Fiona Lloyd-Davies has reported on Eastern Congo since 2011. Here she discusses the twin aims of her new project, assessing the aftermath of a mass rape and efforts to establish conflict-free mines.
The story of 1,000 days–the vital period from the beginning of a woman's pregnancy to her child's second birthday. The fate of individuals, families, nations–and the world–depends on it.
Yesterday in Pulitzer Center's education office, we hosted a Google Hangout between Cairo-based journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous and 9th graders at Staples High School in Westport, CT.
Racist policing practices plagued the case of Stephen Lawrence, as revealed in the Macpherson Inquiry of 1997. Fourteen years later, institutional racism is still a concern for the Lawrence family.
Education reformers come to the former Taliban-occupied Swat Valley.
Journalists Nick Miroff and Daniel Connolly visit DC classrooms, photographer Louie Palu joins them at George Washington University, for a discussion on drug trafficking and US-Mexico border issues.
Today is International Women’s Day and the plight of women and children in crisis is a recurring theme in much of the reporting that the Pulitzer Center supports.
Third and fifth graders at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy wrote letters to Paul Salopek, as he prepared for his seven-year walk around the world.
“Come and pick up your daughter,” the rapists said. They didn't even bother to hide the crime. But the victim and her father have chosen to fight.
In many Indian states, discrimination towards women begins in the womb and ends in domestic violence and sexual abuse.
Student film on the DREAM Act to screen at the San Diego Latino Film Festival's Youth Vision Showcase. The film was produced in a Pulitzer Center-Free Spirit Media workshop in Chicago.
Due to cultural preferences for sons, 100 million girls are missing worldwide. Carl Gierstorfer looks at India, a country with a highly skewed sex ratio that threatens to destabilize its society.