Female Genital Cutting Is on the Rise During COVID in Kenya
The COVID-19 pandemic further complicates a global fight to end female genital cutting.
The COVID-19 pandemic further complicates a global fight to end female genital cutting.
Test-tube studies suggest the South African coronavirus variant might be able to escape antibodies roused by vaccines.
Moderna plans to start development of booster shots tailored to B.1.351 and other variants of COVID-19. Other vaccinemakers are also contemplating updates.
In northern Kenya, researchers are working to prevent a dangerous coronavirus – Mers – from jumping from camels to humans again. But climate change is making their job more difficult.
The pandemic is disproportionately affecting the Latinx community — including survivors of assault.
Regeneron revealed that when it gave an antibody cocktail to 186 people living with someone who had COVID-19, none developed symptomatic disease.
In L.A.'s Boyle Heights neighborhood, essential workers are helping low-income, Spanish-speaking seniors manage food insecurity, new technology, and social connection through programs built to last.
Among Chicagoans who have gotten coronavirus vaccines, just 17% are Latino and 15% are Black, according to estimates released by the city’s Department of Public Health.
The Guinea-Bissau government is poised to lift a moratorium on logging. Forestry officials and conservationists say they fear a return to rampant overharvesting of rosewood and other valuable species.
Members of Central India’s Gond tribe find themselves caught in a decades-long conflict between armed Maoists and the police.
In Illinois, seniors are dying most of the coronavirus, state public health data shows. But answers to so many of their questions remain elusive.
A national census in Bosnia in October 2013 may reveal an increasingly ethnic Bosnian population, but getting minorities to officially declare their often-stigmatized identities will be difficult.
More than 520 years after Spain expelled its Jewish population, the government has eased Spanish citizenship regulations for people of Sephardic Jewish descent.
Seventeen-year-old Yago Parra wanted to protest Spanish austerity measures. He never expected to become a symbol of the fight for free expression.
How do Tohono O’odham tribal members feel about the primarily Latino migrants crossing through their reservation in order to pursue the "American Dream"? It's complicated.
The Pulitzer Center welcomes Wake Forest University, High Point University and Guilford College to its Campus Consortium network.
Boulder, known for its green ideology, is preparing to take over the town's electrical utility in an effort to become more sustainable and bring the power of choice back to the public.
Hawaii's ‘i’iwi honeycreeper may not last another generation and its extinction would change the biological diversity and culture of the islands.
Some of the biggest criticisms of international aid are coming from self-reflective aid workers who question their role and the role of their employers in developing nations.
Every five years the federal government passes a Farm Bill to outline agriculture and food policy. This year, interest groups are trying to get a policy protecting farmworker rights included.
Animal welfare organizations seek additional protections for chimpanzees that could ultimately result in the end of their appearances in movies and commercials.
Coming off of adventures in Asia during summer 2011, one traveler's questions shifted from whether China is ready for an Arab Spring to what the future of democracy looks like there.
Mattey's Garden, a 13-year-old gardening program offered at Matthew Whaley Elementary School in Williamsburg, VA, isn't just about vegetables.
Joanne Cavanaugh Simpson speaks to St. Louis Public Radio about her reporting on surveillance, policing, and civil rights.
Kiran Misra has won a Journalism Excellence Award for her story on the effects of New Delhi urban development on local communities.
C. Zawadi Morris, creator of the COVID-19 Writers Project, and contributor Eisa Nefertari Ulen discuss the importance of documenting history with personal narratives.
WBEZ reporter Natalie Y. Moore will travel to Finland to report on the country’s “open prison” system, criminal justice reform, and relationship with immigrants.
What are the ethical and legal implications of Israel’s West Bank settlements? Who are the people on the ground and what are their stories?
A webinar explores ways to make news coverage of the Amazon forest more balanced.
Over 2,200 students will engage with the material, which is based on a New York Times Magazine initiative that interrogates the legacy of slavery in the United States.
The documentary, which explores Cambodia’s rapid deforestation due to agriculture and logging, won in the short film category.
Grantee Sean Gallagher’s project looks into how logging, agriculture, and rubber plantations are pushing Cambodian forests to the edge of existence
Grantees Fredrick Mugira and Ejiro Umukoro share their experiences covering pervasive environmental and social issues in Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Grantees Lydia Chávez and Molly Oleson explain how their Pulitzer Center-supported project utilized illustrations and community outreach to tell pandemic stories in San Francisco’s Mission District.
Journalists, a poet laureate, and an attorney and activist discussed “Disappearing Daughters,” which combines journalism and poetry to tell the story of women’s resistance to gender-based violence.