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.
While most adolescents interviewed for this project said they were not ready to become parents, one variable remains constant: their aspirations for their infants, unborn children and themselves.
Roger Thurow talks about the importance of India's busy rice harvest.
National Geographic's Janna Dotschkal interviews Pulitzer Center grantee Dominic Bracco II about his work in Mexico, Texas, and Honduras.
Pulitzer Center grantee Roger Thurow highlights innovative efforts in Uganda that can lead to achieving the goal of healthier children, mothers, and communities.
Despite death threats and firebombs, Aziz Royesh and his school are symbols of success in a country that is starving for education.
Small, affordable motorcycles are transforming life in Southeast Asia, but there is a deadly downside.
Burma’s army has forcibly recruited teenagers for decades. The practice is slowly changing, but many former child soldiers live with the scars of their experiences.
Photographer Matt Black documents life in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero.
Last year, 43 students went missing from Iguala, Mexico. Award winning photojournalist Matt Black documents the lives of their families.
Migrant mothers from the Philippines are raising kids through care packages.
Can mapping neural pathways help us make friends with our enemies?
Lured off the streets by false promises and recruited into the army as young boys, they returned home as men years later.
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