Human Rights
At the Dandora trash dump in Nairobi, Kenya, the scene is otherworldly: smoke from burning chemicals and plastic, rotting debris, overpowering smells, scavenging animals and humans.
Afghan women are writing poetry of love, war, exile, grief and Afghan independence with ferocity. By writing it they are also risking their lives.
Pulitzer Center Senior Editor Tom Hundley highlights this week's reporting on water and sanitation in Liberia and Kenya's mountainous dump site called Dandora, as well as our 2012 student fellows.
Anonymous and spoken, landai, two-line Pashtun poems, have served for centuries as a means of self-expression for women. Today they are an important vehicle of public dissent.
Water and sanitation are at the center of a heated political debate in Liberia. Why are so many still going without?
A day in the life of Abdullah Demirbas, the pro-Kurdish mayor of the Sur district in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir.
The "Milk and Blood" project has launched a crowdfunding campaign through the Emphas.is platform. The Pulitzer Center will match up to $10,000 of the money raised.
The Rohingya flee human rights abuses in Burma, only to be denied refugee status in Bangladesh.
President Obiang of Equatorial Guinea has hired a Washington lobbying firm to improve his image while international oil companies spend millions of dollars to support the Equato-Guinean regime.
There are 12 to 15 million stateless people worldwide, making statelessness the most overlooked and under-reported human rights crisis.
A photographic tour of the toxic otherworld in Dandora--Nairobi's mountainous wasteland.
In Cambodia local human rights and environmental groups protest both illegal and legal logging that is fueled by government-granted “economic land concessions.”
For Nairobi's poorest, the enormous trash dump that's slowly killing them is also the only thing keeping them alive.