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Global Issues/Citizen Voices Writing Contest

The Pulitzer Center is partnering with Helium to get your voice heard on important global issues often under-reported in US media.

The Pulitzer Center is partnering with Helium to get your voice heard on important global issues often under-reported in US media. The winning essay will be showcased on our website, and the winner will receive a Pulitzer Center Global Issues/Citizen Voices Award.

When selecting the winner from the top ranked entries on Helium, the Pulitzer Center values vivid, well-articulated essays that reflect insight, a clear point of view and, where appropriate, original reporting. Anything fictionalized or not based on the writer's own observations should be clearly marked.

Note: The views expressed in the articles published on the websites of Helium and of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting are those of the authors alone. They do not represent the views or opinions of the Pulitzer Center or its staff.

Round three: Winning essays

In June 2008, The Pulitzer Center partnered with Helium to continue its third round of the Global Issues/Citizen Voices Writing Contest. Contestants chose topics for their essays from prompts related to different Pulitzer Center reporting projects. Find their winning essays below.

How does stigma and discrimination, as witnessed in Jamaica, perpetuate the global HIV/AIDS epidemic?
Read winning essay by Glynnis Hayward

Round three: Meet the winners

Brian Mahoney, Pulitzer Center

Afghanistan For Eric Lannak, hampering the international drug trade is all a matter of economics: make other crops profitable for farmers, and they won't be forced into growing drug-producing crops like poppy or coca.

Round two: Meet the winners

Bethany Whitfield, Pulitzer Center

From finding the truth about military dictatorships like Burma to creating a solution for Palestinian refugees in the Middle East, the questions of our latest Global Issues/ Citizen Voices Project pressed for thought and analysis on some of today's most complex and difficult global issues. Here's what our four winners had to say on the topics and how their past experiences and research influenced their answers.

Round Two: Winning Essays

In May 2008, the Pulitzer Center partnered with Helium to continue its second round of the Global Issues/Citizen Voices Writing Contest. Find the winning essays here.