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Despite Years of Crushing Poverty, Hope Grows in Haiti

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting - By Kira Kay, Jason Maloney - Jan. 11 (News Report) - In what is being hailed as a moment of hope for Haiti, as a confluence of security, brought by a large and aggressive United Nations presence, and relative political stability, under the tenure of President Rene Preval, has kept the country calm for a long-enough period that investors are tentatively starting to return to the Caribbean nation.

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Pakistani Politics: Why Women’s Voices Matter

Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting - By Sarah Stuteville - May. 19 (Investigative Report) - Women in this part of the world are often cast as an exotic political side note in the U.S. Instead women are in many ways at the forefront of the conflicts here. Their voices aren’t a footnote to the politics of this country - I’m realizing they are the politics of Pakistan.

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Hope for Pakistan's child workers

Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting - By Sarah Stuteville - May. 19 (News Analysis) - International scandals — most famously, exposés in the 1990s revealing that soccer balls meant for European sports federations were being sewn by underage Pakistani kids — have led many to call for tougher action on child labor. But in a country where nearly half the population is under 18, opportunities are few and acute poverty common, child labor seems inevitable even to those fighting for its abolition.

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Bad times return to Karachi

Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting - By Sarah Stuteville - May. 19 (News Analysis) - Despite Karachi’s decades-old reputation as Pakistan’s most violent city, over the last year this urban economic hub has remained a haven from the bombings and violence reverberating through the rest of the country. But a flaring of ethnic clashes in recent weeks, exacerbated by a the arrival of thousands of refugees from the violence in northern Pakistan, has many worried that instability has returned to the streets of this massive port city on the shores of the Arabian Sea.

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Iraq: Beyond the Wall

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting - By David Enders, Richard Rowley - Oct. 29 (Investigative Report) - Muqtada al-Sadr and his armed group, the al-Mahdi army, have been America's most intractable opponents in Iraq, the only major Shia party to make the demand for US troops to withdraw.

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