Untold Stories
August 2, 2011
With nearly 10,000 visitors a day, Jiuzhaigou National Park is an economic booster for the Sichuan Province.
August 1, 2011
As missing money slows HIV support services in Zambia, those with the most at stake organize and protest.
August 1, 2011
The cartoneros in Buenos Aires are assembling to find ways to gain legitimate recognition from their government.
August 1, 2011
Recently inaugurated President Humala will have to confront Peru's mining and extraction industries, which have caused years of controversy between the government and the indigenous people.
July 29, 2011
The region of Nagorno-Karabakh has gained a de-facto independence, but still does not receive recognition by the international community.
July 29, 2011
The CIA launched a fake vaccination campaign while trying to track Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan. The scheme could hurt that country’s efforts to eradicate polio.
July 26, 2011
Only a few communities in the Sichuan forest regions promote sustainable harvesting.
July 25, 2011
Dr. Rodwell Vongo, President of the Traditional Health Practitioners Association of Zambia (THPAZ), urges Zambia to look back as well as ahead for answers to fighting HIV-AIDS.
July 25, 2011
The town of Taytay is known as one of the most active sites in the Philippines for the Live Reef Fish for Food Trade.
July 22, 2011
As the Malaysian rainforest is destroyed by logging and replaced with palm oil plantations, the indigenous people are losing their homeland.
July 21, 2011
Carlino Ararat and other locals fear losing their mining rights and source of livelihood as the Colombian government gives mining exploration titles to large foreign and national mining companies.
July 19, 2011
Labor recruiters or "brokers" help Burmese migrants cross the border into Thailand. Once here, migrants work long hours under harsh conditions to repay the brokers.
July 18, 2011
China has recently been placed on a new list that highlights the world's most threatened forest regions.
July 18, 2011
Chileshe, a Zambian nurse, sees 25 patients a week, many with HIV-related illnesses. She opened the clinic, the first in her community, after her mother died without easy access to health care.
July 13, 2011
Guardia Indigena, a pacifist force, protects land populated by the Nasa from armed groups and illegal miners. In March 2011, they successfully headed off bulldozers in Las Canoas reserve.
July 12, 2011
Zambian Winstone Zulu has AIDS and is an activist for more effective treatment and prevention of the disease. He wrote an op-ed in the New York Times on neglect of efforts for disabled people.
July 12, 2011
Pulitzer Center grantees Dimiter Kenarov and Jason Motlagh were arrested by Belarussian police while reporting from the country.
July 12, 2011
Indian officials are working to end the transmission of polio within the country, launching extra rounds of immunization in high-risk areas.
July 11, 2011
In an effort to vaccinate all children under five, teams of polio eradication health workers visit homes in Firozabad in Uttar Pradesh state. Areas with poor sanitation are considered high-risk.
July 9, 2011
A message from Northern Sudanese on South Sudan's independence day -- and a plea to Khartoum to let journalists in.
July 7, 2011
Pakistan's political landscape leaves no room for democracy, as voices of dissent are often silenced violently. 51 journalists and two media workers have been killed in Pakistan since 1992.
July 7, 2011
Egyptian professors are demanding that university administrators appointed by former President Hosni Mubarak be removed from their positions.
July 7, 2011
Ethiopian orphanages are struggling to find sources of financial support after the government implemented a province-wide adoption freeze in the People's Region.
July 6, 2011
After the January 25 revolution in Egypt, 1500 families were evicted from their homes in Cairo and have set up makeshift camps. Homeless protesters are now demanding affordable housing.