There are now more people under the age of 25 in the world than ever before, presenting both opportunities for social progress and considerable challenges. Pulitzer Center stories tagged with “Youth” feature reporting on young people, the issues they face and the potential for change they represent. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on youth.
According to UNICEF, about half of the world's child marriages occur in India. This is the story of a family-arranged child marriage and its associated health risks.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has cursed world leaders, threatened to kill criminals and promised to eat the livers of terrorists, but Shibby de Guzman doesn’t seem intimidated.
An unprecedented study in Bangladesh could reveal how malnutrition, poor sanitation and other challenges make their mark on child development.
From policymaking to policy-in-action, various individuals impact the journeys of Sweden's asylum seekers and the decisions on their cases.
For minors seeking asylum in Sweden, time is running out not only on their age, but on their chances of staying in the country.
For asylum seekers in Sweden, refuge is hard to find.
Bridge International Academies—a chain of inexpensive private schools—has plans to revolutionize education for poor children. But can its for-profit model work in the most impoverished places?
The photographer Glenna Gordon accompanied the Nigerian military to regions where Islamist militants have terrorized residents.
Near the site of a shuttered lead mine in Zambia's second-largest city, families dig rocks from polluted slag to resell for building materials.
Kabwe in Zambia has been left with extreme levels of lead pollution after almost a century of metal mining and smelting, harming generations of children.
Despite generous benefits and a robust effort by Estonia to welcome Syrian refugees, the rural setting and lack of countrymen leave families yearning for alternatives.
One vignette from the story of an Afghan refugee family's first experiences in Europe.
Journalists Nick Miroff and Daniel Connolly visit DC classrooms, photographer Louie Palu joins them at George Washington University, for a discussion on drug trafficking and US-Mexico border issues.
Today is International Women’s Day and the plight of women and children in crisis is a recurring theme in much of the reporting that the Pulitzer Center supports.
Third and fifth graders at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy wrote letters to Paul Salopek, as he prepared for his seven-year walk around the world.
Student film on the DREAM Act to screen at the San Diego Latino Film Festival's Youth Vision Showcase. The film was produced in a Pulitzer Center-Free Spirit Media workshop in Chicago.
Pulitzer Center journalist Jason Motlagh discusses his reporting with over 1,000 students in Philadelphia and Chicago.
Pulitzer Center education director Mark Schulte highlights a photography contest and digital storytelling competition for middle and high school students.
Sixth grade students at Washington International School spent a day with Paul Salopek, exploring the first year of his Out of Eden walking route.
"Outlawed in Pakistan," a documentary by Pulitzer Center grantees Habiba Nosheen and Hilke Schellmann, selected for the Sundance Film Festival.
Seminar gives William & Mary students room to turn academic pursuits into journalism thanks to unique partnership between the Pulitzer Center, the College's Charles Center and supportive alums.
Paul Salopek is about to begin a seven-year walk around the world--what would you like to ask him?
The Pulitzer Center and Chicago-based Free Spirit Media present summer workshop documentaries.
Philadelphia students learn to tell their own stories through photography with photojournalist Andre Lambertson and the Temple University High School Press/Journalism Workshop.
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