Reporter's Notebook: From ‘Fixer’ to Friend
Photojournalist Mark Hoffman reports on the Syrian refugee crisis in Jordan with the help of fixer Ihab Muhtaseb.
According to the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. And yet around the world, many people are denied basic human rights, or find their rights under threat. Pulitzer Center stories tagged with “Human Rights” feature reporting that covers the fight for equality under the law, civil rights and the basic dignity afforded every person. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on human rights.
Photojournalist Mark Hoffman reports on the Syrian refugee crisis in Jordan with the help of fixer Ihab Muhtaseb.
Photojournalists bear a responsibility to document true stories. Grantee Mark Hoffman uncovers falsified photography in Jordan's Zaatari refugee camp.
Photojournalist Mark Hoffman uses his craft to convey the emotional turmoil of men and women affected by the Syrian Civil War.
A Syrian family at the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan has multiple health concerns.
Grantee Mark Johnson's reflections on reporting on volunteers' work at the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan.
Sometimes Syrian refugees in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan must choose between food and medicine in order to survive.
The "temporary" Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan has already been open for almost four years.
A group of doctors and volunteers, led by a Syrian-born doctor, arrive in Jordan to help Syrian refugees at Zaatari refugee camp.
From an “often ruthless” Honduran oligarch to a pair of Indian billionaires who ran a company accused of falsifying drug data, the World Bank has helped the rich get richer.
Studies report that many Indians choose to defecate in the open rather than use accessible toilets. Why is this?
Despite new laws to protect the rights of children in El Salvador who are suffering the consequences of the civil war, many youth remain endangered and seek refuge in orphanages.
The Dominican Republic built its economy on the backs of Haitian immigrants and their descendants. Now it wants them gone.
Loretta Tofani's "American Imports, Chinese Deaths" series was awarded the 2007 Investigative Reporters and Editors' Gold Medal for medium sized newspapers.
In March 2008, The Pulitzer Center partnered with Helium to launch its first round of the Global Issues/Citizen Voices Contest. Find the winning essays here.
Loretta Tofani's "American Imports, Chinese Deaths" series was awarded, among others, the 2007 Investigative Reporters and Editors' Gold Medal for medium sized newspapers.
Editor in Chief Lily Chen interviews Pulitzer Center grant-recipient Loretta Tofani about her "American Imports, Chinese Deaths" series. January 9, 2008, the Washington Observer (Mandarin Chinese), a World Security Institute publication. Lily interviews Loretta Tofani, an American journalist, about her call for people's attention to Chinese workers' benefits and rights.
Note: This article is in Mandarin Chinese.
Pulitzer Center grantee Loretta Tofani appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal to discuss her series about how Chinese workers lose their health and lives making cheap products for export to the U.S.
Gorongosa National Park was once among the most popular destinations in Africa – a place where movie stars and astronauts vacationed, where animal herds were denser than on the famed Serengeti Plain. But Mozambique's long civil war turned this natural wonderland into a battlefield. By the time the war ended in 1992, Gorongosa was a wasted, abandoned, empty place – yet another African casualty in a century filled with tragedies.
One man is using his great wealth to try to help some of the poorest people in Mozambique by attracting more tourists to the beautiful national park of Gorongosa. Scott Pelley reports.
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ENOUGH is sponsoring a video contest to raise awareness of the connection between the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the world's demand for electronic products - especially cell phones.
Photojournalist Carlos Villalon has worked for news organizations around the world. He traveled throughout eastern Congo between April and June of 2006, documenting the impact of war, coltan mining and trade on daily life. The Pulitzer Center is pleased to present his work and commentary here, as a supplement to the Center's own project on Congo.