Reports by Pulitzer Center journalists for print, online and broadcast news outlets
A shot of video footage of Izmir, Turkey, overlaid with images posted by refugees on Instagram from those same sites. Image by Tomas van Houtyryve. Turkey, 2016.
January 30, 2017 / The New Yorker Tomas van Houtryve
Following the “digital breadcrumbs” left by refugees on social media.
January 27, 2017 / Christian Science Monitor
Amy Yee
Bogaletch Gebre cofounded KMG, an organization that’s credited with virtually eliminating female genital mutilation in southern Ethiopia
Workers wash bananas on a plantation in Magdalena. Image by J. Stephen Conn, courtesy of Flickr. Colombia, 2016.
January 27, 2017 / In These Times
Matt Kennard
In the fanfare around the peace deal signed by the Colombian state and the FARC guerillas, the role of multinational corporations in the violence was largely ignored.
A graph representing youth population in the Middle East. Image by Farzaneh Roudi, Youth Population and Employment in the Middle East and North Africa: Opportunity or Challenge? Courtesy of Atlantic Council, 2016.
January 27, 2017 / Atlantic Council
Jon Sawyer
The Middle East is not condemned to a debilitating cycle of conflict. There is nothing inevitable or unfixable about what ails the states of the region today.
A retail store in the United Kingdom. Image by Jošt Franko. London, 2016.
January 26, 2017 / Delo
Meta Krese, Jošt Franko
Article about the Global path of cotton in the Saturday supplement of the biggest Slovenian daily Delo
A widow’s belongings surround her in a Varanasi ashram that for generations has taken in women from Nepal. Usually run by religious charities or social-aid groups, widows’ shelters in temple cities offer a roof overhead, a surface to sleep on, and enough food to keep a lean woman alive. Women who outlive their husbands are often seen at home as tainted and burdensome, so shelters also provide an escape from hostile relatives. Image by Amy Tensing. India, 2016
January 23, 2017 / National Geographic
Cynthia Gorney, Amy Toensing
In some cultures, the death of a husband has meant exile, vulnerability, and abuse. But bereaved women are beginning to fight back.
A club on an island in the middle of the Bosphorus. Image by Joshua Kucera. Turkey, 2016.
January 23, 2017 / Roads & Kingdoms
Joshua Kucera
Where's the Real Border Between Europe and Asia?
Rebecca Lebeta, a resident of the Masakhane informal settlement, waits for promised relocation. Image by Mark Olalde. South Africa, 2017.
January 21, 2017 / Independent Online
Mark Olalde
Brought to informal settlements among coal piles and coal-fired power stations by the possibility of employment, residents in Mpumalanga face the constant complications surrounding relocation.
Kraków’s town hall decorated for Flag Day. Image by Ben Mauk. Poland, 2017.
January 20, 2017 / Granta
Ben Mauk
Ben Mauk visits Poland to investigate the role of the foreigner in a country that has embraced illiberal populism.
Ben Freeth returns to the ruins of his home, which was burned down in 2009. Image by Martin Fletcher. Zimbabwe, 2017.
January 20, 2017 / International Business Times
Martin Fletcher
Ben Freeth's family farm was Zimbabwe's biggest mango producer until Robert Mugabe's 'war vets' seized it in 2009. Now, as millions of Zimbabweans survive on foreign food aid, it produces nothing.
Image by Anton Zelenov, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
January 19, 2017 / The New York Review of Books
James Fenton
Nearly 6,000 drug dealers and users in the Philippines have been summarily executed since President Rodrigo Duterte took office in June.
A soldier walks through an alley in the vicinity of Methar Lam. Image by Cpl. James L. Yarboro. Afghanistan, 2005.
January 19, 2017 / Harper's
May Jeong
What will await Trump in Afghanistan?
Your limits are in your head. Image by Erin Wilson, courtesy of Outside.
January 19, 2017 / Outside
Erik Vance
How our minds push our bodies to defy expectations, beliefs, and even our own biology—in short, to make miracles.

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