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TA HEUY, Cambodia — Cambodian farmers Nuoy and Nangkek were both in their late 20s when they took out their first microloan in 2018 for around $600 to help grow their crops. Today, the couple owe more than $10,000 to two financial institutions charging 18% annual interest. Like many borrowers in a country with one […]
MRN, a mining company and aluminum producer, denied consultation rights to long-established Amazon riverine communities when it launched a new mine, impacting their way of life, say local people.
Across the Amazon, Indigenous residents are developing sustainable economies centred on local production.
Andrés Bermúdez Liévano. Andrés Bermúdez Liévano is a Colombian journalist who works at the Latin American Center for Investigative Journalism (CLIP) and whose reporting has focused on environmental issues, drug policy, transitional justice, and how victims of Colombia's armed conflict rebuild their lives. His work includes in-depth looks at how politicians and businessmen use secrecy jurisdictions (as part of the Pandora Papers, the largest collaborative cross-border investigation to date), irregularities in how Colombia's largest carbon offset project calculates its avoided d...
Deadline: 15-Dec-22 The Pulitzer Center, a nonprofit organization that supports independent global journalism, is now accepting reporting fellowship