Since 1993, more than 35 journalists in Russia have been murdered for their work, of these some 14 were killed in Chechnya, the North Caucasus region or in St. Petersburg. About 19 journalists have been assassinated in retaliation for their reporting since Vladimir Putin came to power (including three in 2009).
Correspondent Adam Yamaguchi tackles the global sanitation crisis head on in the new documentary, “The World's Toilet Crisis” that CurrentTV recently broadcast as part of the Vanguard Documentary Series.
About 20 women and a few men stare at our small group on top of a hill in rural Andhra Pradesh, India.
Two months ago, Sudan conducted its first multiparty elections in almost twenty-five years. The National Congress Party (the ruling party of northern Sudan) portrayed the elections as a milestone in Sudanese history, an opportunity for a peaceful transfer of power and a bloodless process that truly spoke to Sudan’s political evolution.
How is American national security like astronomy?
This week’s Women Deliver Conference in Washington, D.C. was the first in a series of international conferences and summits that will focus the world’s attention, for the next four months, on Millennium Development Goal 5: to reduce maternal deaths in the world by two thirds and to provide access to reproductive health care for all by the year 2015.
One hundred youth from nearly as many countries gathered in Washington, D.C. as part of this week's Women Deliver conference on maternal health.
The Pulitzer Center is pleased to continue our partnership with National Geographic and is very proud to collaborate with the NatGeo News Watch website.
Last month the British medical journal The Lancet reported that in the span of three decades, the number of women dying in childbirth or during pregnancy worldwide decreased substantially.
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The Pulitzer Center and YouTube recently hosted a film screening of the Project: Report winners' videos at George Washington University in Washington, DC.
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