A person’s labor is deeply intertwined with their economic status, quality of life and access to basic resources like food and clothing. Pulitzer Center stories tagged with “Labor” feature reporting that covers the rights of workers, efforts to organize labor unions and worker advocacy groups, modern slavery, and other forms of worker exploitation. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on labor.
In Qatar, “zina” laws ban unmarried couples from sex. Rights advocates say those most likely to be in jail for this transgression are low-skilled migrant women.
Kabwe, Zambia, is Africa's most toxic city. At its heart lies Black Mountain, where men and children scavenge lead atop a 100-foot-high wasteland created by a century of mining activity.
Field notes from Kerala, epicenter of a decades-long migration to the Gulf, and from the UAE's Saadiyat Island, popular with vacationers, golfers, and seasoned conference attendees.
Advocates say the Philippines’ restrictive reproductive health policies and almost nonexistent sex education make its young migrant women vulnerable to unplanned pregnancy.
This interactive piece showcases Sim Chi Yin's four-year project Dying To Breathe in its different forms: short film, photo slideshow, text, video, open letter, and radio.
Alcoa announced in January 2017 that it would permanently shutter the Paranam plant in Suriname. Daylight puts Paranam’s story in harsher light.
'I dream of the day when we can all be together again', overseas Filipino worker Norma Brion tells her children.
From checkpoints to settlements, Israel is increasingly privatizing its control over parts of the West Bank. Some see this shift as an attempt to sustain the occupation.
A once thriving mining community rebuilds as the pullout of Pittsburgh's Alcoa sinks in.
South Africa's mining industry is slowly abandoned, a trend captured in this photo essay for Johannesburg's Saturday Star newspaper.
Women workers on Indonesia's oil palm plantations face significant health risks.
The government finally made a move against the Hazaribagh tanneries over the weekend.
Pulitzer Center Senior Editor Tom Hundley highlights this week's reporting about the harsh reality of the shrimp industry.
Pulitzer Center Senior Editor Tom Hundley highlights this week's reporting from Afghanistan to Haiti.
Pulitzer Center Senior Editor Tom Hundley highlights this week's reporting on Brazilian health care and unrest in Turkey.
Mellissa Fung fords rivers, encounters storms, fights mud and choppy waters to reach the indigenous Ngobe village of Nueva Lucha.
Pulitzer Center Senior Editor Tom Hundley highlights this week's reporting from Russia to Panama.
Pulitzer Center Senior Editor Tom Hundley highlights this week's reporting from China to Nicaragua.
Pulitzer Center Senior Editor Tom Hundley highlights this week's reporting from Japan to South Sudan.
Pulitzer Center Senior Editor Tom Hundley highlights this week's reporting on the military coup in Mali's capital, Bamako and the feature on the families of China's migrant factory workers.
Multimedia pieces by Pulitzer Center grantees bring discussion topics to life at Global Classrooms DC's Model United Nations Conference at the U.S. Department of State May 1.
Pulitzer Center Executive Director highlights this week's reporting from China, India and Liberia.
Pulitzer Center grantee Dominic Bracco II was interviewed by Wired about his experience documenting Mexico's Los Ninis and what he hopes his photographs will convey to an American audience.
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Grabbing Gold
From Eastern Europe to South America, soaring gold prices have triggered a global gold rush. Industrial mining companies—quite a few of them based in Canada—are muscling aside small local operations and laying waste to large swaths of previously pristine countryside. It is an under-reported crisis that has been on the Pulitzer Center’s radar for more than a year, and it now seems to be gaining some media traction.
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