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While the debate over health user fees has been raging in international development circles for decades, in Malawi the issue has a longer history, combustible politics, and intense personal relevance...
Health
In Malawi, people are using a deceptively simple strategy to alleviate poverty: giving poor people money and letting them decide how to spend it.
Africa
Journalist Larry Price discusses his reporting on what it's like to be a child laborer in the gold mines of Burkina Faso.
Africa, Human Rights
Panama is confronting their electricity crisis by constructing a major dam near a territory designated for indigenous people who say the project threatens their way of life.
Effect of Human Activities on the Earth, Environmental Public Policy, Role of Water in Natural and Human-Made Environments
Allison Shelley and Allyn Gaestel discuss the challenges of reporting on "Chaupadi: Nepali Women's Monthly Exile" and the barriers to reproductive health care faced by women in rural Nepal.
Asia, Gender issues, Health, The Political and Social Conditions of Developing Nations, World Religions
Global warming is happening faster around the Arctic Ocean than anywhere else. To adjust to this new climate, local communities must change the way they live and work – for better and for worse.
Climate change, Europe, Globalization, Ecosystems, Effect of Human Activities on the Earth, Role of Water in Natural and Human-Made Environments, Watersheds
Foreign troops are leaving Afghanistan. As the decade-long effort to secure the country draws to a close, how are Afghanistan’s most vulnerable communities preparing for the challenges that lie ahead...
Defense, militarization and security, Education and learning, Modern Day Conflicts
India has launched programs to make healthcare available to rural families, but crippling medical bills and rampant fraud persist. Why is aid failing to reach those who need it most?
Asia, Health, Science
As Colombia struggles to free itself from a vortex of violence, union members, human rights activists and others still feel threatened by criminal elements––and their own government.
Human Rights, Human Rights, The Political and Social Conditions of Developing Nations, Modern Day Conflicts
The largest generation in history is entering its prime childbearing years, poised to add 2 billion more people to the planet. Ken Weiss investigates the causes and consequences of such rapid growth.
Food security, Science, Effect of Human Activities on the Earth
A push-pull between Ghana’s residents and its department of waste management has been ongoing—trash bins have been stolen and open defecation is commonplace. A turnaround may be in the works.
Africa, Effect of Human Activities on the Earth, Environmental Public Policy, Freshwater Resources, Role of Water in Natural and Human-Made Environments
Interview with director Micah Fink about the making of "The Abominable Crime", a film about Jamaica's violent homophobia and the brave people who stand up to it.
Gender issues, Health, Human Rights, LGBT issues, Prejudice, Discrimination, and Stigma
The Ministry of Education in Santiago has been under attack by Chilean students who believe that a quality, free education is not a privilege but a right for all.
Education and learning
In Indonesia and the Philippines, explosive growth and rapid modernization test religious belief and attitudes toward family planning.
Asia, Gender issues, Globalization, Health, Religion and religious tolerance
Journalist Pete Jones discusses his reporting from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Africa
Grantee Joshua Kucera talks about Tajikistan's pursuit of stability, which lately is taking one step forward, two steps back.
Defense, militarization and security, Energy, Regional/border disputes, Freshwater Resources, Role of Water in Natural and Human-Made Environments, Modern Day Conflicts
Chronically unstable and corrupt — and now bracing for more chaos from Afghanistan — Tajikistan's president is staking his country's future on the biggest dam in the world.
Ecosystems, Effect of Human Activities on the Earth, Environmental Public Policy, Freshwater Resources, Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources, Role of Water in Natural and Human-Made Environments
Skype brings Pulitzer Center grantee Sharon Schmickle together with classes studying food insecurity at Australia's Queensland University of Technology.
Food security
"No Fire Zone" Director Callum Macrae tells how he came to document what might have been Sri Lanka's 'war without witness.'
Human Rights, Human Rights, Religion and religious tolerance, World History, The Holocaust and Modern-Day Genocide, War Crimes and Terms of Peace, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, The Political and Social Conditions of Developing Nations, Modern Day Conflicts
"Meet the Pros" 2013 features Pulitzer Center grantee Allison Shelley and student fellow Melissa Turley, produces Westchester student-created multimedia.
LGBT issues