Projects
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Launched December 1, 2008
Twenty-five years ago Abdullahi Tijjani had a vision for Kuki, a village in the north of Nigeria he became chief of at age 14: "Hunger will become a thing of the past once we marry modern technolo |
Launched November 15, 2008
How does an affluent First World nation-state go from stability to near social collapse in the space of a week? |
Launched November 6, 2008
Climate change is threatening to displace 2,500 inhabitants of the Carteret Atoll in the South Pacific. Their stories are the main topic explored in the Academy Award®-nominated film Sun Come Up. |
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Launched October 4, 2008
Ug99, a virulent fungal disease, could create a major food security crisis by attacking the world's second largest crop, wheat. |
Launched September 5, 2008
Sony and Intel Corporation partner with Pulitzer Center and YouTube for a first-ever journalism competition! The project encourages aspiring journalists to produce short, high-quality video pieces focused on stories that are not usually covered by the traditional media. |
Launched August 29, 2008
Thousands of Iraqis risked everything to work for the U.S.-led occupation because they believed in democracy. |
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Launched August 28, 2008
Four days before the opening of the Olympic Games in Beijing, the Chinese government faced an unexpected wave of violence in the heart of the country's restive Muslim homeland. |
Launched August 23, 2008
Sri Lanka is a byword for beauty and tragedy. |
Launched August 18, 2008
For much of the world Cambodia brings to mind the horrors of the Khmer Rouge's killing fields. |
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Launched August 17, 2008
The doubling of the price of rice in Asia has given rise to what some have coined "the Asian Food Crisis." While some economists feel that this is a temporary price hike, others see that the devas |
Launched August 15, 2008
An exodus of more than 2 million Iraqis is reshaping the Middle East -- with ominous implications for the region. |
Launched August 8, 2008
The war between Russia and Georgia caught most of the world by surprise but it is a conflict that has long been brewing – and one that is part of a larger drama. |
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Launched August 8, 2008
The poorest nation in the Arab world struggles with high population growth, 40% unemployment and a persistent flow of refugees from Somalia. |
Launched July 7, 2008
In the remote Petén region of northern Guatemala, environmentalists are fighting environmentalists in a behind-the-scenes ideological conflict over how best to save the vast but rapidly shrinking |
Launched July 1, 2008
Northern Sudan is a region that has largely been ignored, eclipsed by rebellion in Darfur and a civil war in the south that lasted two decades. |
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Launched June 18, 2008
In almost three decades of rule, Robert Mugabe's evolution from liberator to tyrant led Zimbabwe from democratic independence and its status as South Africa's breadbasket to a one-party state with |
Launched May 7, 2008
In early 2008, gunmen wielding AK-47 rifles started attacking villages in Guyana. |
Launched May 5, 2008
Dost Mohammad Fahim Khairy, an Afghan who left his country in a time of great turmoil and was resettled in the United States refugee program, makes his first journey home to Afghanistan since he l |
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Launched May 2, 2008
The Taliban is not the only threat facing Afghanistan. |
Launched April 24, 2008
In April 2008 Nepal turned a corner. |
Launched April 18, 2008
Two rounds of civil war have engulfed Sudan for the last half century, killing two million people and displacing four million others. |
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Launched April 5, 2008
Chevron is accused of having dumped 18 billion gallons of toxic waste in Ecuador’s Amazonian rainforest, and local residents are determined to hold them accountable. |
Launched March 28, 2008
Poet and writer Kwame Dawes travels to Jamaica to explore the experience of people living with HIV/AIDS and to examine the ways in which the disease has shaped their lives. |
Launched March 27, 2008
A resurgent Turkey is shifting from a linchpin of the Western system to an independent-minded actor dominating the world's key geopolitical intersection, between Europe, the Middle East and Caucas |
