Human Rights
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Pulitzer Center Update
Privatizing Education in Africa
Educating the Poor for Profit Peg Tyre They think of themselves as venture philanthropists. Bill...
July 5, 2017 -
Thousands of lone minors fled war to find shelter in Sweden, a once exceptionally welcoming country...
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Pulitzer Center Update
The Tennessean Wins Two AP Awards for 'Rethinking Haiti'
Grantees Jamie McGee and Larry McCormack win national and state AP awards for their reporting on...
June 28, 2017
![I was drawn to the Beichuan earthquake memorial because I knew it would be strange but I was not fully prepared for the level of mass tourism on the site. According to a local tourism official I spoke with, fully 3 million domestic tourists a year visit the site. Seeing so many middle-class vacationers in their trendy athleisure clothing with their cameras out walking through a destroyed city was jarring but it was fully intended. The local government hoped that disaster tourism would be a major economic…](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/06-21-17/beichuan_tourists.jpg.webp?h=5d8d1d0b&itok=2QlN3bFD "I was drawn to the Beichuan earthquake memorial because I knew it would be strange but I was not fully prepared for the level of mass tourism on the site. According to a local tourism official I spoke with, fully 3 million domestic tourists a year visit the site. Seeing so many middle-class vacationers in their trendy athleisure clothing with their cameras out walking through a destroyed city was jarring but it was fully intended. The local government hoped that disaster tourism would be a major economic development tool in the region. Despite the grand plans, however, most tourists visit the ruins as a day trip and stay in larger cities farther away or continue on into the mountains to visit Laojunshan National Park (aka "China's Yellowstone"). Image by Daniel Brook. China, 2015.")
