Human Rights
Pulitzer Center grantee Tomas van Houtryve has spent months looking into North Korea from its tightly sealed borders.
A new law makes acid attacks a crime, but justice remains elusive for victims like Sidra Yasmeen. She recently won a court case against her attackers.
“Too Young to Die” is a long-term exploration of the tragedy gun violence exacts on Chicago’s streets. Although over 100 children and young people died in 2012, their deaths are often overshadowed.
The Stephen Lawrence murder case is re-writing criminal law in Britain. Has it put Britain's double jeopardy protection in jeopardy?
From sectarian violence to political marginalization, Egypt' s Coptic Christians are being pushed aside in the Muslim majority.
Armed militias running illegal poaching and mining rackets and backed by a powerful army general come into conflict with conservation efforts—and the local population bears the brunt of the fallout.
As North Korea threatens to barrel down a warpath, South Korea braces for an impending attack.
The neighborhood of garishly opulent mansions is aptly known to locals as "Cocainebougou," or Cocaine Town. It stands as testament to the sudden collapse of Mali.
Subsistence mining is now Congo's largest employment sector—attracting adults and children alike. Chinese investment is driving its growth.
In India, where female fetuses are aborted by the thousands, violence percolates all through a woman's life. These images were taken in a Mumbai slum where oppression is pervasive.
Student politics in Liberia usually focus on better tuition and lower fees but one student leader insists that lack of clean water and sanitation facilities is the biggest problem students face.
After a crackdown on music, Baba Salah wants to keep Islamists out of his hometown.
They love George W. Bush for liberating them, but the region's relative stability might not last.