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Scores of Tibetans have set themselves on fire since 2011 in one of the biggest waves of self...
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Pulitzer Center Update
"Easy Like Water" wins Spring 2013 CINE Golden Eagle Award
More honors for Pulitzer Center-supported film "Easy Like Water" with CINE Golden Eagle Award.
July 1, 2013 -
A unique residential school offers education and sports to aboriginal children who might otherwise...
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Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: On Love and Suicide
Pulitzer Center grantees Eliza Griswold and Seamus Murphy introduced us to the landay — a centuries...
June 24, 2013 -
Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: Mine Control
Chinese dollars and the Chinese themselves have been pouring into Africa, mining the continent’s...
June 20, 2013
![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.")
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/06-27-13/cine3.jpg.webp?h=0907ef5f&itok=8bqh4Tge ""Easy Like Water" won a 2013 CINE Golden Eagle Award.")
