Projects
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Launched February 19, 2019
Is the 2011 federal Prohibition of FGM Act in Kenya enough to end the practice of female genital mutilation? FGM is deeply rooted in Kenyan cultures, and critics say the law is not enough.
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Launched February 14, 2019
An in-depth investigation into the endemic corruption that plagues social welfare programs in Honduras, stifling the country's development and driving migration to the north.
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Launched February 14, 2019
Jonathan Blitzer, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and documentary photographer Mauricio Lima traveled to Guatemala in order to report on the "push" factors driving people to migrate.
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Launched February 14, 2019
Will the continued suffering of ISIS's victims result in a resurgence of the terror group?
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Launched February 13, 2019
An investigation into the socio-environmental impacts caused by the construction of six hydroelectric dams on the Teles Pires river in Brazil's Mato Grosso state.
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Launched February 12, 2019
With self-declared interim president Juan Guaido challenging to take the presidency from Maduro, how will the country overcome its deepest political impasse yet?
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Launched February 8, 2019
What do Afghan and Pakistani women see as the roots of violent extremism, and how are some of them working together to build peace? Who are the women who are fighting to be more than mere victims?
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Launched February 7, 2019
In Ecuador, the prosecution of women for abortion-related crimes is escalating, with devastating consequences.
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Launched February 1, 2019
Native American women become targets of the oil industry in the United States.
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Launched January 31, 2019
An exodus of Venezuelans are fleeing to Colombia, including pregnant women faced with lack of medical services. But when they give birth, their babies faced with another barrier: statelessness.
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Launched January 28, 2019
How can environmental law govern China's overseas mining investments? A comparative investigation of two mines backed with Chinese capital in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
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Launched January 28, 2019
The Impact of the Autonomy of the Wampis People of Peru on the Preservation of the Amazon Forest and In the Peruvian Amazon, 20,000 Wampi Indians decided to organize themselves to defend the jungle from the illegal garimpeiros and the oil industry's ambitions.
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Launched January 28, 2019
Reports of congenital disabilities are significantly higher in the northern part of Bhopal, where the 1984 Union Carbide accident occurred, than in the rest of India.
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Launched January 22, 2019
The death of Jamal Khashoggi shocked the world—but he was far from the first Saudi dissident to be targeted abroad, and he is by no means the last.
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Launched January 15, 2019
Under the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s indigenous communities are bracing for an escalation of repression, encroachment, and displacement throughout the Amazon and the rainforest frontier.
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Launched January 10, 2019
A series of reports on the threats and resistance activities linked to the defence of the last river free of large dams in the Tapajos river basin–now being strangled by a belt of deforestation and the constant expansion of agribusiness.
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Launched January 10, 2019
On a remote Peruvian mountain scientists showed that birds have moved uphill and the top ones even did extirpate. Is this the beginning of a massive retreat from the tropics because of climate change?
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Launched January 8, 2019
How Young Indigenous, Quilombola, and Riverine People from the Tapajós River Are Becoming Rainforest Five courageous personal stories of youths from the Tapajós River.
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Launched January 8, 2019
Indigenous groups in the Brazilian Amazon are preparing themselves as the economic frontier is reaching their communities.
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Launched January 7, 2019
Carol Rosenberg tells both big-sweep and incremental stories about the court and captives at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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Launched January 7, 2019
A wide-ranging multimedia project reported from the heart of the world's largest rainforest, as it nears a dangerous tipping point of deforestation.
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Launched January 4, 2019
Doctors without BordersConflict and corruption have crippled the health infrastructure of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Issues beyond the headlines of war and ebola hide amidst the vast swathes of forest and jungle that cover the country.
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Launched January 2, 2019
As plans emerge for a another caravan of migrants to leave Honduras, PBS NewsHour goes to the origin to explore the crisis forcing so many to flee.
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Launched December 20, 2018
The Catholic Church is an outspoken opponent of a deadly war on drugs in the Philippines. But in a face-off with President Duterte, the Church is losing ground, forcing its clergy to a crossroads.
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