How Poverty Affects the Brain
An unprecedented study in Bangladesh could reveal how malnutrition, poor sanitation and other challenges make their mark on child development.
An unprecedented study in Bangladesh could reveal how malnutrition, poor sanitation and other challenges make their mark on child development.
Doug Bock Clark explores the idea of home for those in a Rohingya refugee camp.
The UN runs several refugee camps for Rohingya fleeing Myanmar in Bangladesh, including Kutapolong. However, most refugees live in informal squatter camps. This is a look at life in both camps.
The government finally made a move against the Hazaribagh tanneries over the weekend.
Grantee Justin Kenny documents the tannery business in Bangladesh through this photo slideshow for PBS NewsHour.
Many workers In Bangladesh leather tanneries don’t know the danger they face.
Following a T-shirt's supply chain from Burkina Faso to Bangladesh to your local mall—and back again.
A half-century of unregulated leather production has created a toxic nightmare in urban Dhaka.
Listen to grantees Debbie and Larry Price on NPR in Baltimore talk about their project on textile and tannery industries.
In parts of Bangladesh, flooding makes it impossible to build permanent hospitals. But that doesn’t mean people can’t get healthcare.
Pulitzer Center grantee Jošt Franko was featured on The New York Times Lens Blog for his work on the cotton trade.
Podcast with former New York Times science editor David Corcoran discusses a series on the global leather tanning and textile industries with grantees Larry and Debbie Price.
Last April, the world was shocked and outraged by the Rana Plaza disaster—a building collapse that claimed the lives of more than 1,200 garment workers in a Dhaka sweatshop. Has anything changed?
More honors for Pulitzer Center-supported film "Easy Like Water" with CINE Golden Eagle Award.
On May 13, 2013, rescue workers finally called off the search for survivors in the wreckage of the Rana Plaza factory collapse near Dhaka, Bangladesh. In the West we're left to wonder: What can we do?
Pulitzer Center grantee Greg Constantine's Rohingya project, and new book, are the focus of an article in the Wall Street Journal's Southeast Asia Real Time blog.
Pulitzer Center Executive Director Jon Sawyer highlights this week's reporting from the Ivory Coast, South Sudan and Burma.
As part of the DC Environmental Film Festival, four films explore the conflicts tied to water issues, as part of the annual World Water Day observance.
In January 2010, Pulitzer-sponsored journalists Jennifer Redfearn, William Wheeler and Anna-Katarina Gravgaard visited more than fifteen middle and high schools and three universities in the St. Louis area. They spoke about their experiences reporting on the issues surrounding climate change in the Carteret Islands and South Asia, respectively. Their discussions with the students ranged from the environmental, social, and political implications of climate change, to the technical and educational sides of a career in journalism, to news literacy and the changing media landscape.
A key feature of the Pulitzer Center's upcoming web portal on climate change is Daniel Grossman's reporting from Bangladesh on how rising sea levels threaten this South Asian country.
Yesterday Grossman had a piece run on PRI's The World, looking at the ways in which Bangladesh is experimenting with protecting itself. Among the experiments -- using floods to prevent floods.
See the piece as it ran at www.theworld.org
"Easy Like Water" was featured by the Good Pitch at IFP's Independent Film Week, which took place September 19-23, 2009. From nearly 200 applications, eight filmmaking teams were selected to pitch their films and outreach campaigns to an invited audience, in order to amplify the impact of their social-issue documentary projects.