The Highest Suicide Rate in the World
If the Inuit people of Nunavut had their own independent country, they would have the highest suicide rate in the world.
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If the Inuit people of Nunavut had their own independent country, they would have the highest suicide rate in the world.
Revista étnica shines a spotlight on Afro-Latino culture on the island.
The Box, a piece of transformational theater based on a journalist’s investigation into solitary confinement, was staged on Alcatraz in June 2019, providing a rare glimpse into the deep end of our prison system through the stories of those who have experienced it.
Pablo Albarenga and Francesc Badia I Dalmases’s project “Seeds of Resistance” highlights the plight of indigenous land defenders in Brazil. Albarenga’s ambitious project presents photo composites of land defenders as a way to bring attention to their work.
In the forests of Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, a green initiative is uniting generations and faiths.
In order to combat climate change, we need unilateral support from agencies and government offices. We also need voices from local citizens. However, in Peru, disconnection prevails.
When families flee conflict, they are forced to choose what to bring and what to leave behind. Tomik the dog refused to stay.
After the 2008 Russo-Georgian War, the Georgian government built housing for people fleeing the violence. Many South Ossetians still live in these settlements.
Women in Turkey interested in studying computer studies and related fields struggle with ways to overcome gender bias and discrimination in order to join the IT workforce.
From actor in St. Petersburg to taxi driver in Tbilisi: one displaced person's search for a place to belong.
Water is fundamental to Bhutan's physical environment, but it is also deeply interwoven with Vajrayana Buddhism, Bhutan's state religion, from the smallest temples to the biggest hydropower projects.
The New Year's party organized for patients of the "female" psycho-neurological boarding house is receiving guests—patients from the "male" psycho-neurological boarding house.
Members of the African diaspora in France share many common experiences; discrimination, lack of acceptance, and the struggle to succeed to become educated and full members of society.
There are approximately 3 million individuals of Turkish descent living in Germany. Past studies have shown that they may not be afforded the same educational opportunities as ethnic Germans.
Although Thailand may appear accepting of transgenders, it ostracizes “ladyboys” from mainstream society, forcing them into industries where stereotypes prevail and denying them legal protection.
James Harkin reports from Syria, in an exploration of human and cultural loss.
The U.S. and Cuba are emerging from decades of Cold War hostility, raising expectations of sweeping change. Will Cuba’s restless 20-somethings stick around to see how their nation evolves?
A small community of Irish citizens is now responsible for an entire nation's cultural revival.
A look at how climate change is challenging Native communities across rural Alaska where hunting, fishing and foraging for food anchors cultures and economies.
Saudi Arabia's King Salman has been on the throne since January 2015, but already has signaled important shifts in the country’s internal governance and foreign policy.
For more than a century, many Western governments operated a network of Indian Residential Schools that were meant to assimilate young indigenous students into mainstream European culture. The results were devastating.
After dozens of vaccination workers were killed in Afghanistan, polio once again began to spread into the borderlands. The same strain is now re-surfacing in Syria.
The Central African Republic is one of the last truly wild places on earth, a sparsely populated country that until recently remained quietly anonymous. So why did it descend into chaos?
Russia's government crackdown on the LGBT community is fueling an alarming increase in the AIDS epidemic in Russia. New infections increased by 10 percent in 2013.
Photojournalists win top prizes for their reporting from Canada to Kenya.
Illinois student used Pulitzer Center reporting and Picasso's Guernica as the inspiration for a project that uses art for activism.
Daniella Zalcman and Guillaume Saladin reflect on the suicide epidemic of Canada's First Nations and consider what can be done to stop the trend of self-destruction.
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Grantee Sally Jacobs discusses Obama's trip to Cuba with reporters Christopher Muther and Doug Struck.
The Society of Professional Journalists honors nine 2015 Pulitzer Center student fellows at regional awards ceremonies throughout the country.
The Middle East has not seen peace in decades—could that be on the path to change?
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About a third of all the food we produce in the world goes to waste. While some developed countries are taking the initiative to change that trend, others lag behind.
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Can the wounds of cultural genocide be healed?
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