From Kolawole Talabi for SciDev.Net: Corruption in Nigeria is potentially threatening public health on a global scale because of forgeries of yellow fever vaccination cards needed to travel. A lack of coordination and transparency in handing out the cards contribute to the problems, and experts say more needs to be done to combat forgeries. [Reporting sponsored by individual donors referred ...
Marianna Grigoryan for MediaLab: The story of four women at different stages of their lives, all under mandatory treatment in a psychiatric hospital in Armenia. Despite various reforms and declarations about the importance of human rights, the mental hospitals and similar facilities in Armenia still remain extremely closed institutions, where abuses sometimes occur and reforms are needed. [Reporting sponsored by ...
Wanjohi Kabukuru travelled to Kenya’s Tana River Delta for New African magazine and found a region overrun by conflict, broken dreams, political strife and unfulfilled promises. Competing interests — agricultural, environmental and corporate — often collide amid a history of government failures to adequately manage the region. [Reporting sponsored by The Reva and David Logan Foundation.] ...
From Joseph Sorrentino for 100Reporters: Despite being deemed likely candidates for asylum, refugees from Central America, many of them women and children, are held in detention until they can post bond — which most cannot afford — or agree to wear tracking devices. [Sponsored by The Park Foundation.] Photo credit: Joseph Sorrentino ...
Author Susan Southard’s book Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War, came out in 2015 and was well received by critics. Her interviews with survivors of the US nuclear attack centered not only on the tragic deaths and physical injuries, but also on the persistent feelings of “bitterness and outrage” toward the United States. The Washington Post called it the “most painful” book ...