Protests have erupted at high inflation, soaring prices, and a political elite accused of siphoning off billions of dollars in foreign aid. Source:...
ON HAITI | Haiti’s new crisis and the humanitarian risks
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Issues and Analysis
ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | Global poverty conference to be held in a slum
Inaugural World Poverty Forum – dubbed ‘Davos with the poor’, a global conference on poverty, is to take place in Africa’s largest slum in an effort...
ON MIGRATION | Inside the Deportation Courts | by Madeleine Schwartz
Madeleine Schwartz OCTOBER 10, 2019 ISSUE Trump’s attempts to close possible paths to immigration have meant ramping up activity in court. Some...
ON AFGHANISTAN | Afghan women fear their hard-won freedom is in jeopardy as Taliban talks resume
"You just sit and walk and look at the world and the city from the windows of your house," one woman said of what life was like under Taliban rule...
ON MIGRATION | The Rohingya refugee crisis, two years on
From breaking emergency to protracted crisis: Read our reporting on the roots of the Rohingya crackdown and its ongoing impact in Bangladesh and...
ON AFGHANISTAN | Afghan Peace Marchers Take Cease-Fire Plea Directly to Taliban
About three dozen activists are heading toward Taliban-controlled territory in southern Afghanistan to ask for a halt to the country’s violence....
ON THE MEDIA | Loss of local news hinders ability to watchdog government
Newspapers are closing or being consolidated at an astounding rate, often leaving behind what researchers label as news deserts — towns and even...
ON THE MEDIA | Decline in readers, ads, leads hundreds of newspapers to fold
Last September, Waynesville became a statistic. With the shutdown of its newspaper, the Daily Guide, this town of 5,200 people in central Missouri’s...
ON THE MEDIA | Journalist and CSFilm trainee/filmmaker Robenson Sason shot covering anti-government protest in Haiti
Hundreds gathered in downtown Port-au-Prince on February 12 to demonstrate against economic mismanagement and corruption and to ask for President...
ON AFGHANISTAN | An Afghan Photographer’s Intimate Look at Everyday Life in His Country
...“it’s difficult for photographers who’ve grown up in conflict seeing what goes on the front pages of the newspapers.” Many, he suggested, feed...
ON MIGRATION | The Criminalization of Immigration in the United States
For more than a century, innumerable studies have confirmed two simple yet powerful truths about the relationship between immigration and crime:...
ON MIGRATION | Sing Out Strong-Call for Immigrant Writers and Immigrant Composers
Call for Immigrant Writers and Immigrant Composers White Snake Projects is excited to announce the launch of a new program entitled SING OUT STRONG:...