Projects
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Launched August 15, 2008
An exodus of more than 2 million Iraqis is reshaping the Middle East -- with ominous implications for the region. |
Launched August 8, 2008
The war between Russia and Georgia caught most of the world by surprise but it is a conflict that has long been brewing – and one that is part of a larger drama. |
Launched August 8, 2008
The poorest nation in the Arab world struggles with high population growth, 40% unemployment and a persistent flow of refugees from Somalia. |
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Launched July 7, 2008
In the remote Petén region of northern Guatemala, environmentalists are fighting environmentalists in a behind-the-scenes ideological conflict over how best to save the vast but rapidly shrinking |
Launched July 1, 2008
Northern Sudan is a region that has largely been ignored, eclipsed by rebellion in Darfur and a civil war in the south that lasted two decades. |
Launched June 18, 2008
In almost three decades of rule, Robert Mugabe's evolution from liberator to tyrant led Zimbabwe from democratic independence and its status as South Africa's breadbasket to a one-party state with |
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Launched May 7, 2008
In early 2008, gunmen wielding AK-47 rifles started attacking villages in Guyana. |
Launched May 5, 2008
Dost Mohammad Fahim Khairy, an Afghan who left his country in a time of great turmoil and was resettled in the United States refugee program, makes his first journey home to Afghanistan since he l |
Launched May 2, 2008
The Taliban is not the only threat facing Afghanistan. |
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Launched April 24, 2008
In April 2008 Nepal turned a corner. |
Launched April 18, 2008
Two rounds of civil war have engulfed Sudan for the last half century, killing two million people and displacing four million others. |
Launched April 5, 2008
Chevron is accused of having dumped 18 billion gallons of toxic waste in Ecuador’s Amazonian rainforest, and local residents are determined to hold them accountable. |
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Launched March 28, 2008
Poet and writer Kwame Dawes travels to Jamaica to explore the experience of people living with HIV/AIDS and to examine the ways in which the disease has shaped their lives. |
Launched March 27, 2008
A resurgent Turkey is shifting from a linchpin of the Western system to an independent-minded actor dominating the world's key geopolitical intersection, between Europe, the Middle East and Caucas |
Launched January 12, 2008
In Ethiopia and Kenya, dry seasons grow longer and tribal conflict over access to water is on the rise, exacerbated by the proliferation of arms from Somalia. With clean water access scarce, the burden of securing a daily water supply has become a daunting task. |
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Launched January 4, 2008
For the past two years, Bolivian President Evo Morales has shifted drug policy in Bolivia toward a program he calls "Coca Si, Cocaina No." |
Launched December 31, 2007
All year, a string of car bombs, assassinations and the encampment of anti-government protesters in downtown Beirut had elevated fears that Lebanon's deepening political crisis could ignite an all |
Launched December 27, 2007
Repressed and mismanaged by a cadre of generals since 1962, Burma erupted last September in the country's largest pro-democracy demonstrations in two decades. |
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Launched December 3, 2007
In December 2006, Ethiopia toppled Somalia's Islamic government, opening up another active front in the War on Terror. |
Launched November 15, 2007
With HIV rates second only to those of sub-Saharan Africa, Caribbean islands that conjure visions of sun and sand now highlight the interplay between poverty and the epidemic in this hemisphere.
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Launched October 27, 2007
Reporter Loretta Tofani gets inside America's factory, China, where the lack of health and safety precautions has Chinese workers dying. |
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Launched October 1, 2007
Child slaves make up about 10 percent of the youth population in Haiti. |
Launched September 27, 2007
Argentina's economic crisis in the early 2000s threw tens of thousands out of work. |
Launched September 25, 2007
Across Afghanistan suicide attacks are on the rise and in much of the country U.S.-allied forces confront a revived Taliban. |
