Covering Health Care in the World's Newest Country

Although freelance journalist Andrew Green encountered several advances in South Sudan’s emerging health care system, like the near-eradication of guinea worm and polio, he also chronicled the new country’s health care setbacks from its feud with Sudan. In addition, Green reported on returnees and immigrants who are struggling to survive in limbo.

Censorship Looms Over Rwanda’s Future Journalists

by Mary Rose Madden

Eighteen years ago, the pro-government radio station in Rwanda, RTLM, incited, encouraged, and organized Rwanda’s Hutu ethnic group to find, hunt, and kill their Tutsi neighbors. It ...

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To Fight HIV, Indian Health Workers Say Homosexuality Must Be Legal

by Christopher Werth

In India in 2009, homosexuality was decriminalized in a court decision. Opponents of that ruling have petitioned India's Supreme Court to reverse it. Indian gay rights organizations are ...

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Saudi Arabia 2012

This trip to Saudi Arabia focused on issues such as energy, religion, environment, education and women’s issues. It was a unique opportunity to better understand a key country that is the birthplace of Islam and hosts Islam’s two holiest shrines.

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