Human Rights
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Project
Beyond 7 Billion
The largest generation in history is entering its prime childbearing years, poised to add 2 billion...
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Pulitzer Center Update
"Voices of Haiti" Gets a Kirkus-Starred Review
Kirkus Reviews awards a star to our enhanced e-book for iPad, "Voices of Haiti." Get your copy today...
July 9, 2013 -
Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: Identity In Flames
The best journalism takes time — time to report, time to write. We urge you to take time to read two...
July 8, 2013 -
Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: A Stillborn Democracy
This week, millions of demonstrators poured into streets of cities and towns across Egypt to protest...
July 3, 2013 -
Scores of Tibetans have set themselves on fire since 2011 in one of the biggest waves of self...
![Media file: AfghanPoetry_Pulitzer_SeamusMurphy026.JPG](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/AfghanPoetry_Pulitzer_SeamusMurphy026_0.JPG.webp?h=56d0ca2e&itok=UutLqFjY "Zarmina Shehadi's mother Simin Gula and father Khel Mohammad. They denied that Zarmina wrote poetry or that her death was suicide. “It was an accident. She was trying to get warm after a bath, but the firewood was wet, so she poured petrol on it and caught herself on fire.” And no, her daughter absolutely did not like writing or reading or poetry, her mother argued. “She was a good girl, an uneducated girl. She was a good tailor. Our girls don’t want to go to school." Image by Seamus Murphy. Afghanistan, 2012.")
