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July 12, 2017 | Nature
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.
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Bangladesh
July 06, 2017 | Field Notes
Home in a Rohingya Refugee Camp
Doug Bock Clark explores the idea of home for those in a Rohingya refugee camp.
June 26, 2017 | Pulitzer Center
Where the Rohingya Refugees Call Home
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.
April 11, 2017 | PBS NewsHour
Bangladesh Cuts Power to Leather District After Years of Environmental Violations
The government finally made a move against the Hazaribagh tanneries over the weekend.
March 30, 2017 | PBS NewsHour
Bangladesh: Billion Dollar Leather Industry Has a Problem with Child Labor and Toxic Chemicals
Grantee Justin Kenny documents the tannery business in Bangladesh through this photo slideshow for PBS NewsHour.
March 30, 2017 | PBS NewsHour
Bangladesh’s Leather Industry Exposes Workers and Children to Toxic Hazards
Many workers In Bangladesh leather tanneries don’t know the danger they face.
March 21, 2017 | In These Times
Our Cotton Colonies
Following a T-shirt's supply chain from Burkina Faso to Bangladesh to your local mall—and back again.
March 17, 2017 | Pulitzer Center
Bangladesh: Toxic Tanneries
A half-century of unregulated leather production has created a toxic nightmare in urban Dhaka.
March 16, 2017 | WYPR Midday
Bangladesh: The Dark Side of the Leather Industry
Listen to grantees Debbie and Larry Price on NPR in Baltimore talk about their project on textile and tannery industries.
March 07, 2017 | National Geographic
Floating Hospitals Treat Those Impacted by Rising Seas
In parts of Bangladesh, flooding makes it impossible to build permanent hospitals. But that doesn’t mean people can’t get healthcare.
March 02, 2017 | The New York Times
A Glimpse of the Workers Who Make Your Clothes
Pulitzer Center grantee Jošt Franko was featured on The New York Times Lens Blog for his work on the cotton trade.
March 01, 2017 | Undark
Undark Podcast: Wear and Tear
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.
September 09, 2013 | General news
This Week: The Lingering Disaster
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?
July 01, 2013 | General news, Project news, Awards
"Easy Like Water" wins Spring 2013 CINE Golden Eagle Award
More honors for Pulitzer Center-supported film "Easy Like Water" with CINE Golden Eagle Award.
May 13, 2013 | General news, Education news
After Disaster in Bangladesh, Think Twice About Sourcing
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?
July 31, 2012 | Project news
Greg Constantine's Rohingya Project Featured in The Wall Street Journal
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.
July 06, 2012 | General news, Project news, News Points
This Week in Review: Untold Truths
Pulitzer Center Executive Director Jon Sawyer highlights this week's reporting from the Ivory Coast, South Sudan and Burma.
March 22, 2011 | Project news
Fight for Water Hits Crisis Levels Worldwide
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.
February 01, 2010 | Education news
Heat of the Moment: Global Gateway in St. Louis
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.
October 07, 2009 | General news
Climate Change in Bangladesh: Rising sea levels threaten low-lying lands
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
September 23, 2009 | Project news
Easy Like Water featured by Good Pitch at IFP's Independent Film Week
"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.
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