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April 03, 2017 | The New Yorker
The Desperate Journey of a Trafficked Girl
Every year, thousands of teen-agers from one city in Nigeria risk death and endure forced labor and sex work on the long route to Europe.
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Africa
March 31, 2017 | NPR
Poverty Plus a Poisonous Plant Blamed for Paralysis in Rural Africa
A rare known paralytic disease konzo has inflicted polio-like symptoms on thousands of the most impoverished people in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and other African countries.
March 29, 2017 | Oxpeckers
South Africa: Ministers Sign Secret Deal to Mine Strategic Water Zone
Eschewing public consultation, the ministers of the environment and mining in South Africa sign a deal to allow coal mining in a legally protected environment.
March 29, 2017 | Inter Press Service
South Africa: Alternative Mining Indaba Makes Its Voice Heard
Delegates from mining communities across the globe met in Cape Town to discuss their grievances and protest the international mining industry.
March 29, 2017 | Climate Home
Unfinished Business: Coal Miners Across South Africa Walk Away from Clean Up
International factors are squeezing South African coal miners, leading to smaller profit margins and a corresponding shift to junior miners that often abandon mines.
March 29, 2017 | Independent Online
South Africa: Days of Coal Mines Are Numbered as Eskom Shifts Focus
As Africa's largest utility shifts its policies and the world slowly moves toward renewables, South Africa's coal mines are increasingly abandoned.
March 22, 2017 | Newsweek
In South Sudan Children Are Being Forced to Join the Fight
Charles believed in the rebels' mission—but he never wanted to become one.
March 21, 2017 | In These Times
Our Cotton Colonies
Following a T-shirt's supply chain from Burkina Faso to Bangladesh to your local mall—and back again.
March 15, 2017 | Pulitzer Center
Uganda: Building Tomorrow Amid Issues of Land Rights
Building Tomorrow works hand-in-hand with the community to construct a school, but it comes at great costs.
March 15, 2017 | Pulitzer Center
South Africa’s Fees Must Fall: Paving the Road to Equality
The cost of attending university has been increasing around 10 percent annually in South Africa, and students and their families are finding it difficult to keep up.
March 14, 2017 | Yale Environment 360, The Guardian
How a Proposed Strip Mine Brought Conflict to South Africa’s Wild Coast
They called him "Bazooka" after his favorite soccer star. But Bazooka is dead because his real passion was protecting the coast of his native Pondoland from a huge titanium mining project.
March 13, 2017 | The New York Times
High Above, Drones Keep Watchful Eyes on Wildlife in Africa
Drones seemed like the perfect anti-poaching tools. But deploying them has been far more difficult than conservationists had hoped.
April 19, 2011 | General news, Project news
Need to Know Highlights Pulitzer Center Film Series at CUNY
The Pulitzer Center partnered with CUNY on "The World Through Women's Eyes," a film festival highlighting work by and about women around the world.
April 14, 2011 | Project news, Awards
"Dear Obama" Nominated for a Webby People's Voice Award
"Dear Obama: A Message from the Victims of the LRA," produced in collaboration with Human Right Watch has been nominated for a Webby People's Voice award.
April 13, 2011 | Project news, Awards
The Edge of Joy Wins "The Economist" Film Project
The Economist Film Project, a film documentary contest in partnership with PBS Newshour has selected "The Edge of Joy" as one of its first round winners.
April 13, 2011 | Project news
Cocaine Coast Nominated for ASME National Magazine Award for Photojournalism
Marco Vernaschi's photo essay "Cocaine Coast" published in Virginia Quarterly Review's Winter 2010 edition is a finalist for ASME's National Magazine Award 2011 for News and Documentary Photography.
April 12, 2011 | Project news
A New Chapter: Early Warning Radio Network
Invisible Children's campaign to establish an early warning radio network to prevent future atrocities orchestrated by the LRA.
April 07, 2011 | Project news, Awards
Pulitzer Center Journalist Jina Moore Wins NYU Reporting Award
Pulitzer Center journalist Jina Moore is a winner of the NYU Carter Journalism Institute’s 2011 "Reporting Award". She specializes in covering human rights, foreign affairs and Africa.
March 23, 2011 | News Points
NGO Water Sector Confronts Sustainability Problem
Of the 600,000-plus hand pumps installed in sub-Saharan Africa over the past 20 years some 30 percent are known to have failed prematurely.
March 17, 2011 | Project news
Sudan Divided: A Conversation with Rebecca Hamilton
Sudan's North and South: A legal context to the historic referendum, and a closer look at modern Sudanese history.
March 08, 2011
Rebecca Hamilton Addresses Journalism Students About Foreign Correspondence and Sudanese Affairs
Ohio University's Institute for International Journalism (IIJ) hosted Pulitzer Center journalist and Washington Post special correspondent Rebecca Hamilton to talk to students about Sudanese affairs.
February 28, 2011 | Project news
Rebecca Hamilton Delves Into 'Fighting for Darfur'
'How We Got Here', PRI the World's history podcast features an interview with journalist Rebecca Hamilton on her new book, Fighting for Darfur.
February 25, 2011 | News Points
After the Vote: Challenges and Opportunities for a Two-State Sudan
Video highlights from the Pulitzer Center's panel discussion on Sudan held at The George Washington University.
January 20, 2011 | News Points
Lord's Resistance Army Event, with Human Rights Watch
Pulitzer Center/ Human Rights Watch presentation at George Washington University on Lord's Resistance Army. Video highlights.