The Political and Social Conditions of Developing Nations
Pulitzer Center grantee James Whitlow Delano traveled to Suriname to report on the Chinese population living and working in the small Amazonian country. James talks about his project in this video.
After decades of trampled hopes under President Hosni Mubarak, Egyptians are now working to figure out not only what they stand against, but what they stand for.
Global hunger affects nearly one billion people. Emergency food is not enough. This project examines some fundamental yet often overlooked interventions, most of which do not involve food at all.
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.
Nairobi’s Dandora Municipal Dump Site has been officially "full" for years and is implicated in a host of diseases--yet provides employment to scavengers. Views from the dump and from those nearby.
Opposition activists, such as Marcial Abaga Barril, face enormous challenges in Equatorial Guinea, a country that can't shake its legacy of torture and political oppression.
Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang believes Africa's "bad image" is the media's fault. His solution: heavy-handed censorship of local and foreign journalists.
In Kenya, the key issue of land ownership in Africa's largest slum raises other questions about the "stateless" status of the country's Nubian population.
What is life like for a 13-year-old Haitian girl, two years after the earthquake?
Kurdish mayors lead hunger strike in an effort to promote peaceful negotiation, not violence.
For Nubians living in Kenya, the traditional naming process is a generational rotation—and a source of confusion for some Kenyan bureaucrats.
The Senegalese hip-hop community, led by rapper Red Black, is rallying behind the opposition movement.
From the slums of Nairobi to the sugar plantations of the Dominican Republic to the far reaches of Bangladesh, entire communities live without citizenship rights. They are “the stateless”.