Leaving on Foot: Venezuela's Caminantes in Colombia
Venezuelan caminantes leave their country with everything they own on their backs in the hopes of a finding better future. What conditions do they face once they arrive on the roads of Colombia?
War, economic crisis and climate change can trigger mass migrations of people. Pulitzer Center grantee stories tagged with “Migrants, Displaced People and Refugees” feature reporting that covers refugees, migrants and internally displaced people. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on migrants, displaced people and refugees.
Venezuelan caminantes leave their country with everything they own on their backs in the hopes of a finding better future. What conditions do they face once they arrive on the roads of Colombia?
Refugees from around the world — not just Central America — are caught up in the crisis at the southern border.
As Trump tries to push for stricter immigration policies, this story examines how the expansion of the Remain in Mexico policy is creating more problems at the southern border.
Since 1988, the rights of Indigenous people in Brazil have been entitled to protection under the constitution. Yet, their reality tells a different story.
"She’s Not a Boy" directors Yuhong Pang and Robert Tokanel detail their production trip to Gutu, Zimbabwe.
A family with roots in the Seattle region starts over in Mexico.
A series of Trump Administration immigration rule changes have effectively sealed the border to the vast majority of asylum seekers, leaving tens of thousands of migrants in limbo, and shifting responsibility for U.S. immigration policy to the Mexican government and dozens of Mexican shelters.
We dialed more than 35,000 random phone numbers to paint an accurate picture of displacement across the entire country.
Migrants crossing at the Texas border fluctuate in the face of Trump administration policies. Recent executive actions coupled with long-standing federal regulations have caused a spike in refused entries.
Cubans seeking asylum in the United States fear reprisals if they are forced to return to Cuba.
When families flee conflict, they are forced to choose what to bring and what to leave behind. Tomik the dog refused to stay.
After the 2008 Russo-Georgian War, the Georgian government built housing for people fleeing the violence. Many South Ossetians still live in these settlements.
ISIS fighters executed and enslaved thousands of ethnic Yazidis in northern Iraq in the summer of 2014 in what the UN calls a likely genocide. A year later, a look at the community trying to heal.
Syrian and other international volunteers travel at their own expense to Syrian refugee neighborhoods to teach war-traumatized children that they are not "the lost generation" but future peace-makers.
After dozens of vaccination workers were killed in Afghanistan, polio once again began to spread into the borderlands. The same strain is now re-surfacing in Syria.
Living beneath Beijing's skyscrapers and residential blocks are an estimated 1 million migrant workers. Dubbed the "Rat Tribe", these low-wage workers make a home in windowless basement cubicles.
Born out of an earthquake, can a new city of 300,000 people survive survive without a government? In Haiti, we follow an unprecedented experiment in land rights, urbanism and self-governance.
Thousands of displaced Syrians have made treacherous journeys across land and sea to the safe haven of Europe. But many here don’t want them. How are the new immigrants adapting and adjusting?
On the island of Hispaniola, conflict over land is putting people’s future on unsteady ground.
Bhutanese refugees in Nepal never got much international attention and now, after more than 20 years living in camps, they are being resettled around the world. Will their cultural identity survive?
Boston University student fellow Selin Thomas documents people on the margins as she tells stories of the Syrian conflict.
Few world cities match the speed of Istanbul’s urban transformation. As new mass housing projects, business districts and suspended bridges dot the city’s horizon, the urban poor are being displaced.
Washington University student fellow Janice Cantieri examines the impact of rising sea levels and climate change on life in Kiribati, the first nation facing displacement due to global warming.
How do refugees mobilize to take care of themselves when aid agencies fail, the international community forgets, and asylum stretches into weeks, months and years?
Juried competition results in exhibition at Smithsonian museum of about 50 finalists, which this year included Pulitzer Center grantee photographer.
2016 fellows report on a range of complex issues from around the world—from global health and perceptions of identity to environmental degradation and innovation.
Journalist's reporting recognized in "the fiercest competition" in the Southern California Journalism Awards' 58-year history.
Living in limbo, refugees turn to protest in Greece.
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Photojournalists win top prizes for their reporting from Canada to Kenya.
Paul Salopek on the Old Silk Road.
In quake-prone Nepal, monitoring mountains may save lives.
Pulitzer Center grantee Adam Matthews's "Toxic Fashion" selected as a finalist in Magazine Investigative Reporting.
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Syrian-American doctor's 'moral obligation' leads him back to Middle East.
Documentaries screened focus on critical water, health and environmental issues around the globe. Future of environmental journalism also among topics raised during panel discussion.