Projects
|
Launched August 14, 2009
Deena Guzder exposes how the economic crisis has changed the nature of sex tourism in Thailand.
|
Launched August 11, 2009
This project was produced in partnership with the Bureau for International Reporting. |
Launched July 23, 2009
In the arctic, warmer weather has already reshaped fauna and flora zones, and sea ice melted last year at the highest levels in modern history. |
|
Launched July 14, 2009
As U.S. citizens missed their chance to elect a woman for president for the first time in 2008, Bangladeshis elected a female prime minister past December for the fourth time. |
Launched June 24, 2009
If a strong educational system is key to a country's success, there is every reason to worry about Afghanistan's future. |
Launched June 24, 2009
Nestled in a remote northern Honduras valley, Santa Lucia and the surrounding area are home to 20,000 rural inhabitants. These families rely solely on their agrarian skills for a subsistent living.
According to UNICEF, over one-third of Honduran infants are malnourished due to this indigenous... |
|
Launched June 16, 2009
Sub-Saharan Africa, the poorest region on Earth, is a place where more than 600,000 women die in pregnancy or childbirth every year due to lack of proper care and only 30 percent of the population |
Launched June 12, 2009
After a hotly contested presidential election that resulted in street riots and a disputed claim to a renewed mandate by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran stands at a crossroads: between reformi |
Launched June 11, 2009
Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia, is Africa’s only fully unrecognized country. After breaking away from Somalia and claiming independence in 1991, the Somaliland government, in stark contrast to the failed state of Somalia, has constructed many facets of a functioning, stable state.... |
|
Launched June 10, 2009
Kenya's Kakuma Refugee Camp was for years among the world's most famous, home to the "Lost Boys" of southern Sudan and as many as 90,000 refugees and displaced persons. |
Launched June 7, 2009
In September 2007, the government of Maharashtra, India, invited bids from private companies for the completion of the Nira-Deogarh water project in the Satara district of Maharashtra. |
Launched May 23, 2009
An international network led by Latin American drug cartels and the Lebanese Islamist group Hezbollah has chosen West Africa, among the poorest and more corrupted corners of the world, as the nexu |
|
Launched May 18, 2009
For more than a decade the ex-Soviet republic of Latvia was a poster child of seamless transition to a prosperous post-Communist world. |
Launched May 11, 2009
The majority of India's water sources are polluted. A lack of access to safe water contributes to a fifth of its communicable diseases. |
Launched May 4, 2009
When Bill Clinton Hadam's refugee family was approved for resettlement in the U.S., the boy's parents faced a "Sophie's Choice" dilemma: him or his sister. |
|
Launched May 3, 2009
In 2008, there were over 2,100 civilians casualties across Afghanistan. US airstrikes accounted for 552 deaths, up more than 70% compared to the year before. |
Launched April 21, 2009
Once a sleepy agricultural town, the entire economy of Altar, Sonora is, at this point, based on human smuggling. |
Launched April 17, 2009
Sulu is an archipelago of some 900 islands and has been the target of an American-assisted counter-insurgency program for the past 4 years. |
|
Launched April 13, 2009
Desertification is one of the most important environmental challenges facing the world today, however it is arguably the most under-reported. |
Launched April 10, 2009
In talking about the Real IRA, the splinter group that took responsibility for the March 7 attack on an army barracks outside of Belfast that left two soldiers dead, Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde |
Launched April 8, 2009
The black rhino is emblematic of how civil war and corruption in Africa decimate endangered animal populations and rob local economies of potential sources of income. |
|
Launched April 5, 2009
Fred de Sam Lazaro presents a series of reports from around the world, examining the intersections of food, food policy, and food security.
|
Launched April 4, 2009
In the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks and the Obama administration's announcement of troop increases in Afghanistan, Pakistan has emerged as a central front in the War on Terror. |
Launched April 2, 2009
Over the course of its 25-year conflict, Sri Lanka has been an island plagued by the abduction and disappearance of its citizens - some estimate tens of thousands. |
