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One year after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the scars of war are staggering — entire neighborhoods destroyed and hundreds of thousands of homes burned out. With the support of the Pulitzer Center, Nick Schifrin and videographer Eric O’Connor report on the challenges of reconstructing a country, and tackling historic corruption, as it still fights a war.

THERE was huge excitement in Carlow College when they introduced their first-ever mixed hurling team within the students’ union. For a long time…

Pulitzer Center Hosts Conversation on Ukraine with PBS NewsHour. How do we understand the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine beyond the daily headlines? What are the far-reaching consequences for liberal democracies around the world? How do we assess this humanitarian crisis against others happening at the same time? On Wednesday March 23, 2022, Pulitzer Center Executive Director Jon Sawyer was joined by PBS NewsHour special correspondent and grantee Nick Schifrin for a conversation on th...

Afghan Women Demand the Right to go to School and Work. Afghanistan’s women saw two decades of progress vanish when U.S. forces withdrew in August as the Taliban took back control of the country. The group’s arch-conservative interpretation of Islam pushed...

Despite brutal repression, Afghan women demand the right to go to school and work

Afghanistan's women saw two decades of progress vanish when U.S. forces withdrew in August as the Taliban took back control of the country. The group's arch-conservative interpretation of Islam pushed women out of the workplace, and cast most young women and girls out of school. But as Jane Ferguson and videographer Eric O'Connor report, some women in Afghanistan are not taking this lying down.

Understand what some women in Afghanistan are doing to push for basic rights