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Video: Pakistan’s New Normal
Amna Nawaz is currently in Pakistan on her 2009 IRP Fellowship. In this video Nawaz sees firsthand how Islamabad today, like much of the country, has changed under the duress of ...
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In India, Stigma Of Mental Illness Hinders Treatment
In India, people with severe mental illnesses often turn to temples and shrines, not to doctors. Some social workers are trying to change this by focusing their efforts on India's ...
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India’s Mentally Ill: IRP Fellow reports for NPR
Resident exorcist Muthalama at the temple at Hanumanthapuram in rural Tamil Nadu claims she can purge the possessed of evil spirits. She uses the trident, ...
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An Editor’s View - China’s environmental issues
Peter Thomson is the environment editor for “The World” on BBC/PRI. In this video Thomson discusses his impressions of China's vast population and the effects on the ...
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An Editor’s View - Christy George
Over 50% of Chinese live in rural areas, farming the land. Runoff from fertilizers, pesticides and animal waste is polluting China’s rivers and contaminating produce. A few Chinese ...
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Audio Gallery: Educating Pakistan’s Poorest
Amna Nawaz is a producer and video journalist with NBC News, currently based in the network's Washington DC bureau. During her IRP Fellowship Nawaz spent five-weeks in Pakistan ...
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IRP report on PBS’s “Worldfocus”: Prolonged drought devastates Kenya
Water scarcity and land degradation continues to be a cause of concern for Sub-Saharan Africa. In this video the IRP's Shravan Vidyarthi and Christina MacGillivray explore the ...
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Video: New hope for fight against malaria
Malaria is among the world’s leading causes of preventable death. The disease is especially deadly among children under the age of five and pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa. ...
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Video: Kenya on the edge
Photographs provided by Evelyn Hockstein IRP home page photo by Andrea Crossan Hillary Clinton flew to Nairobi this week to address a US-Africa trade conference, but she had ...
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Health Conditions in South Eastern Turkey, Gatekeepers 2008
Rural villages in South Eastern Turkey are among the poorest in the country. The lack of development and affordable clinics has created a dire health situation for many in these ...