Sounds of Genocide: Recording Rohingya Musicians
Sasha Ingber reports on how music helps victims of genocide protect their identity and culture, preserving history for future generations.
Sasha Ingber reports on how music helps victims of genocide protect their identity and culture, preserving history for future generations.
Years before Myanmar's crackdown on the Rohingya, authorities were trying to silence them. Refugees in southern Bangladesh's sprawling camps are now making music to commemorate their culture.
Grantee Shaina Shealy joins the Lenny Says podcast to share the story of a woman who uses Facebook to break cultural taboos around menstruation.
Than Toe Aung faced years of discrimination and harassment as a Muslim in Myanmar. When he discovered the power of slam poetry, he decided to use it as a tool to speak out, unite and fight for justice.
Harnessing the power of art to help Rohingya refugees.
Women in Myanmar are pushing lawmakers to punish rapists with the death penalty.
An investigation into Myanmar's state-orchestrated murder of thousands of Rohingya Muslims — and the second tragedy unfolding in the refugee camps
Doug Bock Clark kayaked several hundred miles of the Irrawaddy River, known as the "Soul of Myanmar," to highlight the effects of globalization on the once-isolated country.
Shaina Shealy talks to host Christopher Kimball of Milk Street Radio about Myanmar's traditional Thingyan snacks.
Eleven portraits of hope and pain show how Myanmar's women are using Facebook and online access to create public safety in the country.
A look at the trial of Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, two journalists arrested in Myanmar for their reporting on a massacre of Rohingya Muslims.
Since the majority of Rohingya refugees are women and girls, they are vulnerable to traffickers looking to make fast money in the Bangladeshi sex trade.
Multimedia pieces by Pulitzer Center grantees bring discussion topics to life at Global Classrooms DC's Model United Nations Conference at the U.S. Department of State May 1.
Ryan Libre receives the 2010 Nikon Inspiration Award for photographs on the Kachin struggle for independence in Myanmar.
As part of Pulitzer Center's Global Gateway Georgetown students have undertaken awareness campaigns around their campus community based on issues covered by Pulitzer Center journalists. A group of 4 students' campaign is based on Jacob Baynham's work in Burma. A Facebook page is the campaign's main outlet and the students are holding two events on campus.
BURMA FILM SCREENING
Wednesday, October 15th 10:30pm
Village C Alumni Lounge
OneWorld.net featured the Pulitzer Center's "Terror in the Golden Land" reporting project in the April 14 Today's News section of their website. For the project reporter Jacob Baynham investigates the pervasive poverty and human rights abuses occuring in Burma.