Projects
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Launched February 21, 2014
With support from Pulitzer Center grantees, William & Mary students explore issues from high HIV rates among black gay men in Baltimore to the debate over immigration policy across the U.S. |
Launched February 12, 2014
Today in Rwanda, the 1994 genocide is part of the past, but the country's thousands of maimed amputees are living reminders of the brutal horror. |
Launched February 11, 2014
In Guinea, routine prenatal care is the exception, not the rule. As a result, it has some of the world's highest rates of maternal and infant death. |
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Launched February 11, 2014
For centuries, the flood pulse of this lake has fed a nation and nurtured incredible biodiversity. With a changing climate and scores of dams planned upstream on the Mekong, can it survive? |
Launched February 4, 2014
Since the implementation of a new constitution in 2008, Ecuador has put more emphasis on the development of higher education. Yet the country's secondary schools are leaving many students unprepared. |
Launched January 11, 2014
With homophobic rhetoric now legitimized by federal law, being gay in Russia can be extremely dangerous. |
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Launched January 10, 2014
As China rapidly urbanizes, many villages—and their distinct cultural heritage and folk traditions—disappear daily. Two urban Chinese artists go back to the land in search of meaning in modern China. |
Launched December 31, 2013
One of the world's least-governed regions is caught between South American drug traffickers and the D.E.A. |
Launched December 27, 2013
An interactive visual guide to the world's most rapidly growing religious movement. |
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Launched December 26, 2013
When grief is compounded by cruelty: Societies of widows, battling the stigma of exclusion and the lingering damage of war. |
Launched December 19, 2013
What happens to an aid-dependent country when the tap suddenly runs dry? Since a 2009 coup, Madagascar has been an unfortunate case study. |
Launched December 16, 2013
An emerging class of female retail workers is raising new questions about the direction of the Saudi women’s movement. |
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Launched November 25, 2013
David Rohde, prize winning reporter and Pulitzer Center board member, covers foreign affairs extensively in his books and as a Reuters columnist.
Follow his reporting, commentary, and public events. |
Launched November 25, 2013
"Honduras: Aqui Vivimos" ("Honduras: We Live Here") explores the social conditions—abject poverty, corruption, political disillusionment, and gang culture—that have made Honduras a violent country. |
Launched November 22, 2013
Many experts thought Assad would be out of power by now. But the initial popular uprising has devolved into religious and ethnic strife. Assad is seen by some as the best hope for stability. |
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Launched November 17, 2013
A special election in Nepal fuels hope for an end to years of gridlock but thousands of Nepalis are voting with their feet—leaving the country in pursuit of better opportunities. |
Launched November 17, 2013
It has been 15 years since the end of Northern Ireland's Troubles yet in Belfast, a city carved by "Peace Walls," the tension is still palpable. |
Launched November 14, 2013
Prostitution is not illegal in Brazil. Yet a campaign to “clean-up” the country’s image ahead of the World Cup is rendering those working in Brazil’s sex industry increasingly vulnerable. |
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Launched November 11, 2013
Four decades after the military overthrew Chile’s democratically-elected government, the past remains a vital force in the country. A look at elections, memory and reform in this wounded nation. |
Launched November 6, 2013
Pollution in India is a hidden problem with catastrophic consequences affecting rural and urban areas. Chromium contamination, lead pollution and pesticide poisoning have left a toxic trail. |
Launched November 6, 2013
Monotowns, Russian cities dependent on dying industries, face an even more uncertain future now that Russia has joined the World Trade Organization. |
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Launched October 31, 2013
How can you provide power for a country of 200 million people? This series examines Brazil's energy needs as one of the biggest economic players. |
Launched October 30, 2013
UN enforcement of "responsibility to protect" has too often focused more on protecting UN troops than civilian populations. In eastern Congo UN military leaders are talking—and taking—a tougher line. |
Launched October 25, 2013
Children in the DRC who have lost families, homes and schools prove to be resilient as well as vulnerable. Arts, sports and vocational training help them to re-connect and start life anew. |
